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What is Talent Expansion™?

Talent Expansion is a whole new approach to discovering, developing and unleashing the hidden potential within your workforce – because you want your people to be great at what they do, not just record what they did.

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SumTotal Talent Expansion

Help people be better at their jobs – while they are doing it

What is Talent Expansion

Talent Expansion is a learning-focused approach to HR technology that helps people expand their talent real time. By putting people in the center of our strategy, SumTotal helps organizations unlock their peoples’ talents and gives them what they need to do their jobs better, while they’re doing it.

  • Based on putting people in the middle, with development at the core, learning interventions happen in the context of the end-to-end workflow
  • Functionally broad and integrated applications to make people more productive, not just automate process in silos or record tasks
  • New, open approach – designed to work with what you already have to begin to create a single, virtual system of record and deliver information at the point of action

How SumTotal delivers Talent Expansion

SumTotal Talent Expansion delivers enablement versus just automation and is more than just easy to use – it adds real end user value and has a direct impact on top line.

  • Talent Expansion Applications – No longer have to decide on best of suite or best of breed, you can have both; modular implementation or mix and match – completely integrated today
  • Best Fit Deployment Options – Scales to fit your needs; light SMB/SME SaaS solution or heavy regulatory industries in global enterprises with SaaS, hosted or on-premise options
  • SumTotal elixHR™ Platform – Merge, blend and modify information from any system or third-party applications you already have, using SumTotal applications, including popular cloud-based applications or multiple HRIS systems – to create a virtual system of record through hub technology

Business Benefits of Talent Expansion

  • Empowered Employees

    Greater Business Results

    • People get better at their jobs as they are doing it because learning and development are built into the core of the applications; employees are empowered to reach their potential and deliver better business results
    • Enabled by SumTotal's Talent Expansion Applications for either Small & Mid-Sized Businesses or Global Enterprises

  • People-Centric Workflows

    Improved Adoption

    • Works with third-party applications to give you information at the point of action that works the way your people do - doesn't require people to go in and out of systems to get work done so it increases workforce adoption and/or compliance
    • Made possible by combining power of Talent Expansion Applications with the elixHR™ Platform which include robust mobile capabilities

  • Boundary-Free Enterprise

    Immediate ROI

    • Access to a virtual system of record across multiple systems that allows full visibility and analytics - without the time, cost and disruption of full rip and replace of your current core HR systems
    • Know more about your organization and get information to the point of action without being faced with continuous integration issues using this new, open approach based on Hub technology
    • Made possible with the SumTotal elixHR Platform

  • Choice & Flexibility

    Blueprint for Growth

    • Delivery in a way that suites your business via SaaS, hosted or on-premise; not locked in
    • Don't trade-off breadth versus depth of functionality. Get talent, learning and workforce applications that operate together as an integrated suite or alone as a best of breed application

SumTotal elixHR provides immediate ROI for companies, like Praxair, that have multiple business and HR systems in place. This powerful platform and its virtual system of record have allowed us to continue to get value out of our existing solutions, without the need to rip and replace, while we focus on more strategic areas of our HR transformation.

Marc Franciosa
Vice President and CIO, Praxair

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The Talent Expansion Manifesto

Learn why old-school human capital management isn’t getting the job done and why today’s workforce needs something different.

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