SumTotal intros enhanced enterprise soln

HYDERABAD, INDIA: SumTotal Systems, has launched its Enterprise Suite 7.6.

The newest version helps executives find talent, identify and fill gaps in a workforce’s skill set and recognize and reward employee performance.

“In this release we added a number of components of functionality based on customer feedback; however, the major areas of focus were ease of use and configurability,” said Dave Crussell, chief operating officer of SumTotal.

“SumTotal 7.6 will give executives as well as HR and training teams a way to seamlessly assess employees skill sets and deliver the learning experiences that will increase job performance,” he added.

Usability enhancements to SumTotal 7.6 include an array of features for employees to tap as they “drive” their learning experience, including supercharged search, easy-to-use course registration panels and customer-designed displays. It designed its new suite to give its customers what they said they needed to manage employee learning, performance and compensation, SumTotal said in a release.

Marcus Wasdin, SumTotal’s vice president of marketing and product management, said, “SumTotal 7.6 offers workflows that more closely match the way senior-level executives and their HR and training teams want to identify candidates and groom them for higher-level responsibilities.”

“SumTotal 7.6 will give executives as well as HR and training teams a way to seamlessly assess employees’ skill sets and deliver the learning experiences that will increase job performance,” said Dave Crussell, chief operating officer of SumTotal. “Best of all for our customers, we feel we’ve designed our newest release in a way that reflects how they and their respective organizations prefer to work.”

Along with the addition of 250 workflows for managing performance and learning, it also offers a number of technology enhancements, which include support for database platforms like Oracle 10g and SQL Server 2005.