LONDON, March 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- During the Most Popular Month for Employee Performance Appraisals,
SumTotal Offers Free Consultation and Resources to Help Organizations Improve
the Process and ROI

As HR leaders and employees across the globe are completing 2008
performance reviews, SumTotal(R) Systems (http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/),
Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), the market leader and global provider of talent
development solutions, has named March "National Performance Review Month."
The goal of this month-long initiative is to elevate performance management
to a strategic, business-critical initiative rather than a laborious,
tactical annual practice. In honor of National Performance Review Month,
SumTotal is offering a free half-hour consultation session to any
organization, whether or not they are a SumTotal customer, a complimentary
Performance Management eBook and a series of webinars.

"It's easy for many organizations to pigeonhole the performance review
process as a routine task to be checked off the list," said Jon Ciampi, VP of
Product Management for SumTotal Systems. "Through National Performance Review
Month, we hope to promote the power of performance management tightly
integrated with business strategy. Especially in the down economy,
organizations are changing rapidly, and performance reviews lay the
foundation for managing through difficult periods."

SumTotal is offering a complimentary Performance Management eBook
(http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/lp/pm_ebook_pr.html) a strategy manual about
how to leverage performance management in an organization. The eBook includes
more than five articles about goal alignment, competencies, compensation
management, succession planning and redeployment. Additionally, SumTotal will
host three performance management webinars throughout the month of March:

How to Make Performance Management a Strategic Contributor
(http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/lp/ws_pm_contributor.html)

Recorded on March 4, 2009

The True Value of Automating the Performance Management Process
(http://events.interwise.com/index.cgi?p=501789&t=14&do=register&s=pr)

March 11, 2009

1:00 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT

Competency Management: The Engine that Drives Talent Development Strategy
(http://events.interwise.com/?p=501790&do=register&t=14&s=pr)

March 18, 2009

1:00 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT

Also in support of National Performance Review month, SumTotal is
offering a free half-hour consulting session with a performance management
expert. During each session a SumTotal consultant will analyze the
organization's review process and provide advice on how to improve the
process and implement best practices, as well as offer insight into current
performance challenges. Free sessions are only offered during the month of
March and interested participants can sign up for a strategic advisory
session at http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/pm_consultation/.

Available on-demand and on-premise, SumTotal Performance Management
offers a comprehensive range of goal management, performance appraisals,
multi-rater/360 degree feedback, compensation management and career and
succession planning. SumTotal has been recognized by industry analysts for
the strength of its unified Talent Development Suite (
http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/Talent-Development-Suite.html) ,
integrating performance and learning management, and featuring anytime,
anywhere access and Web 2.0 collaboration tools.

For regular updates relevant to talent development, learning and
performance management, follow SumTotal on Twitter @sumtotalsystems
(http://twitter.com/sumtotalsystems). To learn more about National
Performance Review Month and SumTotal Systems Performance Review solutions,
please visit: http://www.sumtotalsystems.com

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.

SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT) is the market leader and global
provider of talent development solutions. SumTotal deploys mission-critical
solutions designed to drive learning, align goals, develop skills, assess
performance, plan for succession and set compensation. SumTotal's solutions
aim to accelerate performance and profits for more than 1,500 companies and
governments of all sizes, including six of the world's 10 biggest
pharmaceutical makers, six of the 10 largest automotive companies in the
world, four of the five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, three of the
world's top five airlines, five of the six largest U.S. commercial banks and
two of the world's top five specialty retailers. Mountain View, Calif.-based
SumTotal has offices across Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. For
more information about SumTotal's products and services, visit
http://www.sumtotalsystems.com.

SumTotal and the SumTotal logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of
SumTotal Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or
other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Rachel Pattison
    SumTotal Systems
    EMEA Marketing Manager
    E-mail: rpattison@sumtotalsystems.com
    Tel - +44(0)7795816973