#1 most frequent
United States of America
76.5%13 installations of 17
What is SumTotal (legacy)?
The SumTotal Talent Expansion Suite included SumTotal (LMS), and was supported by Skillsoft since the October 2014 acquisition. Acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand in 2022, it is a legacy product, and Cornerstone recommends upgrading to their modern platform.
Categories & Use Cases
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Screenshot of SumTotal Learning Management: Deliver the learning your organization needs including skilling/upskilling/reskilling, career planning & development. All delivered with our engaging learner experience across all modalities (desktop, tablet & mobile) and in the flow of work
Top Performing Features
Player/Portal
Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.
Category average: 8.1
Corporate goal setting
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
Category average: 7.7
Line-of sight-visibility
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
Category average: 7.8
Areas for Improvement
Learning reporting & analytics
Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.
Category average: 7.7
Course catalog or library
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
Category average: 7.6
Learning administration
Administrators can manage the content and people (students/employees, course authors, instructors, etc.) on the platform.
Category average: 8.1
Who Buys & Uses SumTotal (legacy)
#2 most frequent
Canada
11.8%2 installations of 17
#3 most frequent
Japan
5.9%1 installation of 17
Best suited Talent Management tool for Mid-market enterprises
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are high-end Analytics staffing services provider company. Our basic business model is to hire best Analytics and data engineering talent out there in the world and put them on cutting-edge assignments. We used SumTotal Talent Development for our hire-to-retire journey of employees. From getting employee references to setting up multiple interview discussions, feedback, compensation, stock ownership, growth, and analytics on top.
Pros
- Tracking employee learning goals and making sure they meet the goals
- Capturing feedback from multiple interview discussions while hiring and showcasing it in one screen
- Funnel analysis of candidate recruitment pipeline
Cons
- I did not see any functionality to add multiple contractor companies to the hiring funnel and do partner level analysis
- There are no AI capabilities for generating insights and recommendations on yearly or quarterly data
Most Important Features
- Training, Learning, and Development goal setting and measurement
- Hiring, Onboarding
- Performance, Retiring
- Analytics
Return on Investment
- Reduced the email communication for hiring, onboarding, succession, performance
- Automated training, goal setting, performance reviews
Alternatives Considered
SAP SuccessFactors, Skillate: AI Recruitment Platform, Freshteam and Darwinbox
Other Software Used
Skillate: AI Recruitment Platform, SAP Ariba Procurement, ZoomInfo SalesOS
My experience using SumTotal Talent Development
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use SumTotal Learning Management System to support on-line courses, learning plans and ILT programs. It helps us to leverage knowledge among teams, to reduce training efforts and costs, to optimize management through decentralized administration and to get more reliable information for management decisions. It is a complete and robust plaftform that provides great functionalities.
Pros
- Complete functionalities for learning and training management
- Reliable data and performance
- Integration to other products / systems
- Mobile learning
Cons
- Admin experience (a little hard to use)
- Portal and look and feel customization
- Gamification (user experience)
Most Important Features
- Domain management
- Mobile learning
- Gamification
- Learning tracks
Return on Investment
- Positive: reduce training costs and management efforts
- Positive: better and more reliable information for management decisions
- Negative: it is an expensive platform when compared to other similar solutions
Alternatives Considered
SAP SuccessFactors and Docebo Learning Suite
Other Software Used
Trello, OpenVPN Access Server, Cornerstone OnDemand, Zoom, Microsoft Teams
SumTotal Core Review
Pros
- Calculates pay and taxes
Cons
- Reporting
- Mass importing of manual checks to be issued in California
- Ability to fund pay cards immediately
- Perform gross-up calculations within the payroll system automatically
Return on Investment
- It has provided the basic HR and payroll functionality for the past several years.
- In today's world, businesses need much more functionality within an HCM. More is needed as one platform vendors are abundant
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Ceridian Dayforce, UltiPro, ADP SmartCompliance, ADP Workforce Now, ADP Enterprise eTIME and RedPrairie
Other Software Used
Ceridian Dayforce, UltiPro, ADP Enterprise eTIME, ADP SmartCompliance
A developing, unrefined LMS
Pros
- Clean front-end user interface.
- Custom layouts for front page and individual users.
- Flexibility on user roles.
Cons
- Navigation (too many clicks to get anything done).
- Reporting is complicated.
- Buttons everywhere that don't do anything.
- Features enabled that don't fully work or function the way they should.
- Support for the product is lacking.
Return on Investment
- Clean front-end user interface for easier course catalog management.
- Reporting has been more difficult than previous LMS.
- Audience building has more variables making it more difficult to manage.
- Slower overall client turnaround due to admin side interface.
Providing a solid platform to deliver education
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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
Return on Investment
- Consistent educational approach
- Allows end users more acceptable means of receiving the education
- Tracks completion rate
