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SumTotal Overview

What is SumTotal?

To thrive in an ever-changing world, individuals and organizations need adaptability, agility, and resilience. SumTotal helps develop these essential skills through powering a journey of learning and people development that is curated, compliant, predictive and generates measurable outcomes. SumTotal is driven by the belief that 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, success and business sustainability. SumTotal provides a unified, comprehensive, Talent Development suite delivering measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. Our platform includes the following modules: SumTotal Learning Management: We 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. SumTotal Recruiting: A modern recruiting solution that delivers a powerful candidate experience, recruiter productivity, job matching and internal mobility. SumTotal Onboarding: Foster learning before day one with our robust onboarding solution. Build culture, complete necessary paperwork and begin the path to productivity for all your new and returning employees. SumTotal Performance: Performance management that meets the needs of today’s forward-thinking organizations. SumTotal allows you to align the goals and performance of your entire workforce with those of the broader organization for better business outcomes. SumTotal Succession: Make succession planning an organizational strength. SumTotal allows you to understand your workforce today and better plan for your future with our intuitive succession planning tools. SumTotal Compensation: SumTotal makes compensation planning easier and less time consuming. Build a pay for performance environment that meets your organizations goals and objectives while keeping you competitive in the ever-changing marketplace. SumTotal Workforce Management: Designed to protect your bottom line by ensuring that your organization deploys the right number of people at the right time and place, and at the right cost. SumTotal works in partnership with you to configure a solution that matches your unique needs and processes for learning and talent management. Your satisfaction and business success are our primary objective. We bring a team of dedicated customer success, support and professional services experts to help you achieve your learning and talent development goals and are committed to being a true partner to help your organization thrive in a changing business landscape. With SumTotal in your ecosystem, you will drive adaptability, agility, resilience and business success.

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Product Description

SumTotal Workforce Management is designed to protect your bottom line by ensuring that your organization deploys the right number of people at the right time and place, and at the right cost.


Seller Details
Year Founded
1999
HQ Location
Santa Monica, CA
Twitter
@CornerstoneInc
13,244 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
3,619 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: CSOD
Phone
888 365-2763
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$740
Description

Cornerstone powers the future ready workforce. With adaptive HR software designed to unite people, teams, technology, and business, our products inspire a work environment of growth, agility, and success for all. We built our AI-powered and skills-forward system for the contemporary workforce. Organizations that use Cornerstone modernize their learning and development experience, deliver the most relevant content from anywhere, accelerate talent and career mobility, and establish skills as the universal language of growth and success. Cornerstone serves over 6,000 customers and 75 million users and is available in 180 countries and 50 languages.


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Rohit G.
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Rohit G.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Comprehensive Talent Management Solution for Organization!!"
I liked the versatility that SumTotal provides its kind of impressive. It's very adaptable to various needs. Offers robust tools for learning manag...
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Allan P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Unified training."
Easy to locate the training you are assigned to.
Ramakrishna R.
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Ramakrishna R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Wonderful experience working as a client"
Best support while working as a client. Had an experience of learning new technology while doing a project for them with my client.
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SumTotal partners with most of the major content providers to deliver a powerful learning experience
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SumTotal makes it easy for Admin's to build, deliver and report on all learning initiatives
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SumTotal delivers all the functionality your employees need via our native mobile app.
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Employees can easily access personalized development plans to ensure they are on track to meet their performance and career growth goals
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What do you like best about SumTotal?

I like that I can self-service and complete training modules on my own schedule. The classes are easy to follow and allow me to save and come back later. There is a wide variety of topics that can be useful to employees in all levels of an organization. The classes and modules let you know the time commitment and many allow you to save and come back at a later time. You can also retest if you find you did not fully grasp the content. It is easy to go back and review the content and access for future reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

There were a few times that the program does not recognize my time spent on a module and I had to start over. The annual review process can be a bit painstaking. Adding activities are a confusing action for me. There were times that the activities did not upload into the selected goal and thereby reporting ans incomplete. My HR department instructed me to submit the goals as incomplete and they would correct on their end. This part of performance management was the least user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ensure the employees are aware of what classes are available to them in order to self-manage their personal and career growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am able to select from a wide variety of training and soft skills. I have been able to monitor my career progress and goal attainment in performance management modules. The dashboard and progress meters allow me to see what items I need to focus on in my annual performance goals. . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

Sumtotal is a well established corporate talent management which is well recognized by many organizations around the globe. The platform provides training and learning management solutions are well by providing corporates with training solutions for their employees on organization specific topics like human resource policies, soft skills tutorials , technological skills, etc. The platform provides access via both web interface and mobile applications as well, It allows integration with third party softwares as well like Webex to host online trainings and then manage all other details in Sum Total platform itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

Training solutions on advanced skills are not available easily. The course content are not updated frequently due to which some of the courses feel outdated.

The desktop training application sometimes is not able to sync and download the course properly and surely the interface can be made better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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SumTotal provides an easy platform for organizations to easily integrate SumTotal into their own systems offloading organizations from developing their own solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

SumTotal has been used throughout to provide corporate trainings on different topics. Sumtotal maintains and reports the training details and hours easily which is then used to calculate the learning score for all the employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

Training Migration Functionality - TMU and Security Roles setting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

The Demo Site was too complicated that the Production Site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating Course, Migrating Training history and Editing Security Roles Permission. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

Its easy to assign and create training. Also Reports are really friendly to create and update as per the requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

Nothing such as. May be the ICON's of each option like manager, admin and learner need to be more attractive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Instructor courses and Web based training's are really helpful to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

Customer service of SumTotal Talent Management platform is awesome. There are some usage issues mainly due to lack of intuitive UI but that has been under overhaul currently, our concerns were always quickly heeded by their support team mainly based out of India location. Their India team is wonderful to work with and they tons of patience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

The hanging of the Ui when navigating from one feature to another, not intuitive enough when pop-ups are supposed to come up, the tab always opens up in a new window, and keeps on loading - it is not the network but something on the Sum total side which wasn't able to render the content. That led us to figure out other ways to make our content render on the pages. Also takes a lot of maintenance work to keep our content up to date. Overall impacts productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems - E- learning for employees, Performance Management, Fill in activities performed and goals accomplished during a quarterly cycle. Career builder through predictive learning courses in the company.

Benefits is Single Sign on and SAML support but not much apart from that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

It was a great tool to integrate our health care electronic system with to receive fast validation whether or not a patient had healthcare coverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

The latency at times would cause frustration to users as they became dependent on instant results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were working on a customized workflow and they were providing real time benefits to the pt and hospital. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

Sumtotal is more customizable. Unlike, other LMS, we can customize the requirements. It is user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

The interface could be more better. Thats all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have used this for our LMS needs. This gave us an ability to host all of our basic courses made available to learners more easier and quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

I love using this site because it gives me the opportunity to make better and more informed decisions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

Not as In depth as other recruiting sites. There are small changes that could be made Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

This LMS software had a wide swath of features. We use it to upload our courses that we create in house and deploy them to thousands of people. We are also recently able to provide this content on a mobile platform using the mobile app provided by SumTotal on Android, iPhone and Windows Phone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

We have had a few issues here and there that are extremely specific to the tasks that we have. The biggest issue so far being that the mobile apps, only on iPhone and Windows Phone currently (but not android), have an issue regarding the "Done" button. If the learner happens to click that button it will actually remove all progress from what they have done in the course. We have asked SumTotal to consult their mobile developers to see if this is something they can address. There is also a small bit of confusion that we have regarding re-uploading courses to the LMS after changes have been made. The questions that are prompted from the system are a bit ambiguous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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This is a great and fully featured LMS, but we are currently working with them to address some issues with the mobile version of their online learning application. At this point there are still multiple issues we are having using the mobile software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We upload courses that we build in house, usually using Articulate Storyline, to our custom version of the LMS. We then deploy the courses to be taken and score tracked to thousands of employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SumTotal?

I like the screen breakouts and the ability to customize what other items we may need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SumTotal?

The reporting feature is okay but we have to use Cognos Impromptu as well to run reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SumTotal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it as our HRIS system and I enjoy the functionality of employee years of experience, the various screens and the data entry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.