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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: Ariba, Inc.
- Founded in 1996, Sunnyvale, California's Ariba, Inc. makes software that, among other things, helps companies assess, capture and reconcile spending. As Ariba grew, its management team wanted to identify the organization's strengths and weaknesses, particularly among its sales and consulting staff. With newly acquired staff and solutions added to Ariba's...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Ariba Inc., Consulting, Outsourcing, Sales Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sales
- Case studies 2007-11-20
- SumTotal Systems Case Study: Capgemini
- With offices across Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region, Paris-based Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. To keep tabs on performance, Capgemini had put in place a technology-based system for performance management. Initially, most managers performed their employee reviews with the...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Capgemini, Performance Management, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2007-11-20
- Toolbook Instructor 9: Ideas, Realized
- The new Book Explorer gives more information and better control when working with content. The Explorer provides fast and easy access to all pages, objects and backgrounds simplifying the way one work with the content. In the Explorer view, one can quickly edit, move, delete, copy and perform numerous authoring...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Explorer
- White papers 2007-05-29
- Talent Management: The New Silver Bullet? - What the Right Person in the Right Role at the Right Time Can Do for You
- In corner offices and boardrooms across the globe, a new weapon is reemerging in the executive arsenal with powerful implications for driving and even predicting business success: Talent Management. Variously called human capital management, employee relationship management and workforce management, among others, talent management is not a new concept, but...
- Tags: Talent, SumTotal Systems, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Capital, Human Resources
- White papers 2006-06-21
- The Ten Steps in Developing an Effective Performance Management Strategy
- How can a person make his or her performance management program a source of competitive advantage? SumTotal provides ten steps that are discovered as being effective in developing an effective performance management strategy. SumTotal offers a feature-rich performance management and learning solution that integrates best-of-breed solutions. Their customers are using...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Performance, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- SumTotal Enterprise Suite - Product Architecture White Paper
- An architecturally strong foundation is required to achieve the return on investment that software buyers expect. The SumTotal Enterprise Suite capitalizes on three dimensions of architecture (functional, operational, and software) to provide their customers with innovative and pacesetting solutions. This paper provides information about SumTotal's focus on architecture and how...
- Tags: Software, SumTotal Systems, SumTotal Enterprise Suite, Tools & Techniques, Roi/Tco, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2005-10-19
- SumTotal Systems Case Study: Symbol Technologies
- To become more competitive, Symbol Technologies started moving away from its barcode product line, which had become a commodity business, and into mobility products. These products were much more complex, requiring new selling and implementation skill sets for the company's channel partners. Without an infrastructure, Symbol could not provide certifications,...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Symbol Technologies Inc., Business Structures, Finance
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- Estimated Cost Savings of More Than $100,000 Per Month While Maintaining Training Effectiveness
- Stream International has been providing some of the world's premier technology and e-businesses with quality customer care services since 1992. Stream used SumTotal for its learning system, eMpowerNet. It is a Learning Management System LMS that was designed to provide effective agent training beyond anything the company had done before....
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Agent, Training, Stream International, Real Estate, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Human Resources
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- The Sum Total Systems Solution Keeps Shell Competitive
- Recent economic shifts have meant that Shell EP Exploration and Production must produce oil and gas against fluctuating prices while still providing innovative technical solution that meet current and future environmental, health, and safety standards. To ensure that the same standards are met globally, training must be swift and worldwide....
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Quality, Hardware Upgrade, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Internet, Business Operations, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: M&T BANK
- Over the past 18 years, M&T Bank has rapidly increased its size and expanded into new geographic markets through 15 acquisition initiatives. Training these newly acquired bank employees on the M&T Bank systems, products and procedures, while maintaining a curriculum of regular classes throughout the bank's footprint, was becoming an...
- Tags: Bank, SumTotal Systems, Training, Financial Services, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: Pacific Life Insurance
- To meet compliance training challenge, the Pacific Life Academy launched the eAcademy to add online learning to mix with learning activities and to streamline learning management across the organization. They wanted to create a comprehensive online learning environment to develop, deliver and track business, leadership development and technical skills training...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Online Learning, Training, E-learning, Workforce Management, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: Wachovia Corporation
- Having gone through more than 100 mergers over the last 17 years, Wachovia had developed a core competency in quickly and efficiently accumulating the employees, cultures and business processes of other organizations. However, Wachovia still faced the challenge of maximizing employee knowledge and proficiency around the new products and services...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Wachovia Corp., Regulatory Compliance, Performance Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance
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- Training Secrets From the 'Best Bank'
- Online learning helped St.George Bank achieve 20-fold increase in staff training and boost regulatory compliance while cutting costs by 25%, delivering a bottom-line saving in excess of $2.3M USD per annum together with vastly expanded business capabilities. St.George's implementation of the SumTotal Learning Management System LMS now hosts 550 different...
- Tags: Bank, SumTotal Systems, Training, St.George, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- Credit Union National Association Delivers More Courses Faster With SumTotal Systems
- SumTotal is enabling the Credit Union National Association CUNA to easily develop and publish their own online courses and exams. With SumTotal, CUNA has reduced the time it takes to publish a course from several months to less than one month. For the first time, CUNA is able to offer...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: GreenPoint Mortgage
- GreenPoint Mortgage is helping a larger and more diverse set of customers refinance their current home or purchase a new home in today's rising interest rate environment. With more than 150 mortgage products and services, the company needed an integrated learning infrastructure for propagating knowledge and skills out to nearly...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, GreenPoint Mortgage, Mortgages, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Leadership, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Sales, Management
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: Maricopa County
- Maricopa County, Arizona, needed to make training easily available for its 12,000 employees in 45 departments dispersed throughout the greater Phoenix area. Maricopa's paper-based registration was time-consuming, its tracking of coursework and exams inconsistent, and employees' transcripts often lagged behind their latest certification. The county needed consistent training for all...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Training, Maricopa County, Maricopa, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: Defense Ammunition Center
- The Defense Ammunition Center's DAC learning environment encompassed both resident instructor-led classes and CD-ROM based instruction. Its current student population is geographically dispersed across the U.S. and overseas. The DAC needed an industry leading partner to assist them with training solutions enabling them to develop Web and computer training products....
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Training, Defense Ammunition Center, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: The Institute of Motor Industry (IMI)
- To be successful, the IMI needed to provide a solution to their clients, which would ease the administrative burden and allow fast, secure and accurate skills assessment. Using SumTotal's solution, the IMI developed their Online Assessment System, which met the three most important requirements for assessment of candidates: reliability, assessments...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Industry, IMI, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
- Wyeth is one of the world's largest research-driven pharmaceutical and health care products companies. Wyeth needed a standards-based Learning Management System LMS to accommodate existing legacy content, both developed in-house and from third-party providers. In addition, the LMS would need to be highly scalable to reach a large, widely dispersed...
- Tags: Wyeth, SumTotal Systems, Quality, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Human Resources
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- SumTotal Systems Powers ELearning at U.K. Retail Giant B&Q
- Founded in 1969, B&Q employs more than 28,000 in over 300 stores throughout the U.K. and the number is rapidly growing. B&Q's mission proclaims that the company "Will be the best at giving people the inspiration, confidence, and solutions to create homes to be proud of". To accomplish that, and...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, B&Q, E-learning, Marketing Research, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Human Resources
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