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SumTotal Talent Development
SumTotal Talent Development
SumTotal Talent Development
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What is SumTotal Talent Development?
The SumTotal Core Platform (formerly elixHR) is a human resource information system (HRIS) integrable with the SumTotal Talent Expansion Suite of software: SumTotal (LMS), and the SumTotal Work workforce management and payroll system. All SumTotal software is now offered and...
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What is SumTotal Talent Development?
The SumTotal Core Platform (formerly elixHR) is a human resource information system (HRIS) integrable with the SumTotal Talent Expansion Suite of software: SumTotal (LMS), and the SumTotal Work workforce management and payroll system. All SumTotal software is now offered and supported by Skillsoft…
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What is SumTotal Talent Development?
To thrive in an ever-changing world, individuals and organizations need adaptability, agility, and resilience. SumTotal aims to help develop these essential skills through powering a journey of learning and people development that is curated, compliant, predictive and generates measurable outcomes.
SumTotal states learning-centered talent development is the heart of HR and HR Technology and that now, more than ever, building a culture of learning is critical to growth and business sustainability. SumTotal provides a unified Talent Development suite delivering measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. The solution delivers the following modules:
- SumTotal Learning Management
- SumTotal Recruiting
- SumTotal Onboarding
- SumTotal Performance
- SumTotal Succession
- SumTotal Compensation
SumTotal works in partnership with users to configure a solution that matches customers' unique needs and processes for learning and talent management, with satisfaction and business success as the primary objective.
SumTotal brings a team of dedicated customer success, support and professional services experts to help users achieve their learning and talent development goals; they state they aim to be a true partner to help organizations thrive in a changing business landscape.
SumTotal Talent Development Features
Leave and Attendance Management Features
- Supported: Approval workflow
- Supported: Email notifications
- Supported: Balance details
- Supported: Travel absence management
HR Reporting Features
- Supported: Report builder
- Supported: Pre-built reports
- Supported: Ability to combine HR data with external data
Integration with other HR capabilities Features
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by same vendor
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by different vendor
Performance Management Features
- Supported: Performance plans
- Supported: Performance improvement plans
- Supported: Review status tracking
- Supported: Review reminders
- Supported: Multiple review frequency
Succession Planning Features
- Supported: Create succession plans/pools
- Supported: Candidate ranking
- Supported: Candidate search
- Supported: Candidate development
Onboarding Features
- Supported: New hire portal
- Supported: Manager tracking tools
Performance and Goals Features
- Supported: Corporate goal setting
- Supported: Individual goal setting
- Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
- Supported: Performance tracking
Recruiting / ATS Features
- Supported: Job Requisition Management
- Supported: Company Website Posting
- Supported: Publish to Social Media
- Supported: Job Search Site Posting
- Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
- Supported: Applicant Tracking
- Supported: Notifications and Alerts
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SumTotal Talent Development Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English (US), English (UK), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, French (Canada), German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu |
Frequently Asked Questions
The SumTotal Core Platform (formerly elixHR) is a human resource information system (HRIS) integrable with the SumTotal Talent Expansion Suite of software: SumTotal (LMS), and the SumTotal Work workforce management and payroll system. All SumTotal software is now offered and supported by Skillsoft since the October 2014 acquisition.
Cornerstone OnDemand, Workday Human Capital Management, and SAP SuccessFactors are common alternatives for SumTotal Talent Development.
Reviewers rate Balance details highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of SumTotal Talent Development are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
SumTotal Talent Development Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 25% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 75% |
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March 23, 2016
Dated looking, but works.
We use SumTotal Maestro across our franchise network for providing access to online courses for our owners, their managers, as well as their employees. Every manager looks for ways to on-board new employees as quickly as possible and online learning helps reduce that time. Online learning also provides easy access from anywhere with internet access, 24/7 to employees wanting to continue developing skills in their respective fields, as well as learning new subjects.
- Assign complete learning plans to users so they don't have to spend time searching for courses.
- Export learner's transcripts so managers can easily see their employee's progress.
- Embed Social Media feeds that are relevant to their business.
- I don't think we can build courses using Maestro. We rely strictly on third party software for course development.
- Creating custom reports can be challenging.
- Since we have to manage our total number of monthly active users, many of our manager's accounts go inactive. Once they're inactive, they stop receiving any notifications from their employee's course completions.
- The user interface is dated looking. Many of the newer LMSs have more of a Windows 8 look and feel, which is what newer users are wanting.
- We don't measure ROI with Maestro, but mostly provide it as a service/benefit to our network.
- Based on owner feedback, we know that it helps them manage their time so that the new employee can take their required courses and then put that new knowledge to work. This allows for owners/managers to spend their time on other things and focus on the most critical issues with their new employees.
Maestro is a little dated looking. Younger users are looking for something up-to-date, interactive, fun, and easy to use and Maestro has a ways to go with this.
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Owners, managers, employees, corporate employees
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Anyone can learn how to use Maestro. It's very easy to upload new courses and manage them. The hardest part to learn was Batch Import to make changes to multiple users.
- On-boarding new employees
- Continuous development for existing employees
- Assign complete learning plans to employees so they don't have to search for individual courses relevant to their position.
- Automatic course assignments based on user role.
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March 18, 2015
Not Warm and Fuzzy
Our company provides LMS Support for a large company using SumTotal. The whole company uses SumTotal as their primary LMS, about 80K users.
- Easily customizable notifications
- TMU tool allows for quick mass uploads
- Configurable front end
- JasperSoft Reporting - it is difficult to use and manage.
- Exams could be more robust. Offering alternate types of questions.
- Too many clicks on the administrator side. Adding new activities is not intuitive, you need to click through each section to determine what needs to be entered where. Would be better if it was guided for new activities, just prompting for 'required' fields.
- Having all training/learning records in one tool allows users to have their record follow them when they move in the business. This reduces the need for retraining and time spent on data entry.
SuccessFactors is more user friendly, however their service is less than stellar. SumTotal was chosen because of price and customer service.
June 24, 2014
Providing a solid platform to deliver education
We are able to deliver mass education through the LMS as well as track completion and competency of our employees. It enables us to communicate consistently and effectively across our campuses as well with those that are spread throughout the state. Staff can rely on a constant and consistent source to find new communication, education or track their educational experiences.
- It allows for simulations to address complex scenarios in the healthcare setting.
- We can quickly review reports to see completion rate of an activity.
- We have empowered our upper managment to utilize the tracking functionality to have quicker compliance on education modules.
- Staff would like to see the links of assigned training to allow users to launch into an activity
- Offer more reports within the programs so users dont have to make their own
- Consistent educational approach
- Allows end users more acceptable means of receiving the education
- Tracks completion rate
We use it to provide eLearning asynchronous training to our clients. We decide what to develop, and our clients buy subscriptions to our training library. Our training supports their requirements to earn CLPs and certifications in their fields. Our employees also use it for the same purpose.
- SumTotal has a very user friendly design, making it easy for non-programmers to configure their LMS interface, customize various environments for different groups, and to integrate numerous external web applications through iFraming, such as social media or news feeds. I was able to configure a custom environment for several different clients, making it feel like their own LMS, such as a custom color scheme and logos, custom widgets (which are section of any page), news feeds, training messages, and custom learning plans.
- SumTotal can not yet support media-rich mobile learning. Our eLearning design use instructional video, text, interactions, pop-ups with course resources and other information, etc... The SumTotal mobile capability right now does not support our design; ie our pop-ups won't pop-up, even those that simply open a PDF or document, and non of the hyperlinks will work.
- The ROI has been positive, and we are able to train more of our clients than ever before.
- articulate
When I came to my company, they had been using a "light" LMS called Articulate. It was cheap and bare bones; i.e. not a lot of features, really just a platform to launch eLearning from and not real interface for student to utilize. When I began to overhaul the training department, this was one of the first things I changed. Articulate would only run courses built in their software, and the software was not 508 compliant. In addition, we had no ability to create learning plans, house transcripts, customize the interface, or manage the students. I made the choice to select and LMS that was a true LMS with all of the features that were critical to our clients' needs. Thus far, SumTotal has been able to support all of our needs, except one; mobile learning that is media rich.
June 20, 2014
Sum Total- Does it add up as an LMS?
Sales training, onboarding and curriculum development
- Curriculum development
- Prerequisites
- Calendar view
- Usability- launching activites
- Look and feel could be more appealing
- Audience management/integration could be improved
- ROI, saved on travel cost
- Onboarding, helped streamline program
- Usability was a challenge for our community
Highly developed functionality