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About SumTotal No Boundaries


SumTotal is dedicated to partnering with our customers to create great places to work. We break down barriers. We reject complexity and embrace simplicity. We believe that people want to give their best and be great at their jobs. With the tools to do their jobs, people are free to be whatever they can imagine and whatever your people can dream, your business can do.


The only HR vendor to offer a complete portfolio which includes; talent, learning, workforce, payroll, analytics, mobile and social delivered via SaaS, on-premise or hosted.

#1 in learning


#3 in integrated talent

3,500 customers


45 million users

96% customer retention

30 years in HR


SumTotal Systems

SumTotal, LLC, recognized as a market leader by industry experts and analysts as the largest independent provider of integrated HR solutions, is committed to helping customers create great places to work. SumTotal is the only HR solution provider to deliver Talent Expansion™, a whole new approach to discovering, developing and unleashing hidden potential within our customers’ workforce. By putting talent development in the center of our strategy, SumTotal helps unlock people’s potential and gives them what they need to do their jobs better – while they’re doing it. With over 45 million users, 17 million in the cloud, and over 3,500 customers worldwide, our people offer deep domain expertise for both complex global deployments, and help small, high-growth companies scale. Through SumTotal’s elixHR™ Platform, we offer pervasive access to talent applications, visibility across employee and business data and a seamless user experience. With SumTotal, talent is boundless.

  1. We put people at the center.
  2. Your people aren’t capital; they want to be great at their jobs not just shuffle a process along. Our roots are in learning and that’s what makes us unique. We put talent development right in the center of all our solutions so your people can be better at their jobs – while they are doing their jobs. As they grow and succeed, so will your organization.

  3. We focus exclusively on HR.
  4. We have nearly 30 years’ experience helping our customers create great places to work. We are currently the largest independent HR vendor in the industry with global scale and reach. We are first in market share in Learning and third in Talent Management behind the two biggest ERP companies in the world. Since HR is all we do, we can focus on investing and innovating in areas our customers directly care about, not the ones they don’t.

  5. We have everything you need.
  6. With SumTotal Talent, SumTotal Learn and SumTotal Work, HR can find everything it needs in one place, designed to function as one application, or as best in breed applications. We’re mobile and social, too.

  7. We create harmony not disruption.
  8. Multiple HR systems are a reality so we design our solutions to fit with the infrastructure you already have, so you don’t have to rip and replace existing solutions to get the job done. We integrate easily with popular third-party and cloud applications your people already use, and those they will always use no matter what you tell them – like spreadsheets.

  1. We get you answers today.
  2. Workforce analytics and workforce planning are no longer optional. We embedded both in our elixHR Platform so you can see immediate value. And with elixHR, you can pull together all your data virtually, no matter where it is. You get answers today – not 18 months after an HRMS consolidation, which is what other vendors might be telling you.

  3. We give you deployment choices no one else does.
  4. We offer SaaS because it’s a great fit for many people, but we know a hosted or on-premise solution works better for some. What we care about is that you get the deployment option that works best for you. We are the only vendor to offer all three options; SaaS, Hosted or On-Premise.

  5. We make it easy to start.
  6. We don’t try to force you into buying everything from us. Start with one solution and see how we do.

  7. We put our money where our mouth is.
  8. Anyone can say they care about customer satisfaction. At SumTotal, every employee at the company is evaluated and rewarded based on customer success. We have evolved a business model built to create sustainable, long-term value for our customers, which includes unique approaches in Services, Support and Account Management.

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What is elixHR?

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