| SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUMT) | | | | develop its staff’s skills. |
| announced that Tencent, a leading China-based | | | | “Our people receive specific training when they first |
| Internet and telecom value-added service provider, will | | | | enter the company, including a series of foundation |
| use SumTotal's talent management software to | | | | courses that acquaint them with the company’s |
| transform e-learning capabilities for Tencent’s 3,000 | | | | core business, strategy and culture. We believe |
| employees. Tencent, listed on the Hong Kong Stock | | | | SumTotal can help us deliver these online courses and |
| Exchange (0700.HK), hosts Asia's number one – | | | | build in the assessments that will tell us how well our |
| and the world’s third most popular – instant | | | | employees are learning what they need to know to |
| messaging service, with over 270 million Chinese users | | | | provide superior customer service," said Xi. |
| on its QQ messaging service platform. | | | | Using TotalLMS and ToolBook, Tencent can create |
| To date, Tencent has purchased SumTotal's | | | | standards-based simulations, tutorials, assessments, |
| TotalLMS™ – a learning management system | | | | courses and interactive content that the company |
| (LMS), which delivers and tracks education via the | | | | believes will play a large role in advancing a positive |
| Internet -- as well as ToolBook®, which is | | | | working environment, focused on innovation and |
| SumTotal’s solution for developing software | | | | excellence. |
| simulations and e-learning content. With these products, | | | | With SumTotal, Tencent will transform its Q-Learning |
| Tencent aims to revitalize its e-learning system, | | | | system into a comprehensive learning tool that will be |
| Q-Learning, to better deliver strategic, cultural and | | | | used by front-line managers, staff and training |
| procedural information, while improving employee | | | | managers. In revitalizing its Q-Learning system, |
| productivity and enhancing customer service. | | | | Tencent has a number of specific goals including: |
| “Tencent is founded on innovation, and this | | | | * Delivering company strategy, culture and procedures |
| innovation stems from our people. Therefore, staff | | | | rapidly and accurately to every employee via training |
| training is a key focus for the company. In addition to | | | | * Transforming individual employee experience and |
| traditional training and learning methods, we have been | | | | expertise into tangible information that can be used |
| looking forward to implementing a structured and | | | | broadly across the company |
| comprehensive e-learning system,” said Xi Dan, | | | | * Increasing the efficiency and lowering the costs of |
| director of Human Resources for Tencent. | | | | training operations |
| “Following an extensive evaluation, we found | | | | * Providing training capabilities anytime, anywhere |
| SumTotal’s TotalLMS to have all the necessary | | | | “TotalLMS can handle more than one million users |
| tools for us to deliver, track and analyze enterprise | | | | across multiple sites, so its scalability was never a |
| learning now and into the future. ToolBook will give us | | | | question for Tencent. And the addition of ToolBook |
| the ability to create training content that will run | | | | means Tencent can develop online training that is |
| seamlessly on the TotalLMS platform.” | | | | guaranteed to run smoothly on TotalLMS,” said |
| Tencent CEO Ma Tang has said that "staff are the | | | | Alex Raymond, SumTotal’s vice president, |
| company‘s primary asset” and significant | | | | Asia-Pacific. “Our contract with Tencent is further |
| investments have been allocated for staff training | | | | evidence that SumTotal’s strategy for reaching |
| programs each year; however, the speed with which | | | | and growing new international markets is working.” |
| Tencent’s business is growing has meant it | | | | The implementation of TotalLMS is in process and |
| requires an even more robust platform in order to | | | | expected to be up and running later this year. |
| accelerate the speed with which the company can | | | | Download the LMS Information Kit... |