[February 14, 2012]

Orbitz Worldwide Invests in Employee & Channel Learning with SumTotal Extended Enterprise Solution

SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the innovator in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced that Orbitz Worldwide, one of the world's leading global online travel companies, is leveraging SumTotal's Learning Management for the Extended Enterprise solution to deliver and manage learning for its employees, as well as channel partners around the world in more than a dozen different languages.

With a global contact center footprint, the team at Orbitz Worldwide needed to be able to create, warehouse, deliver, test, score and track content and learning comprehension for both Orbitz Worldwide employees and their extended enterprise of channel and business partners.

Fully deployed in just 30 days, Orbitz Worldwide is actively employing SumTotal's Cloud-based learning management system (LMS) to track all global online and instructor-led learning activities, and the positive impact that training has on their business. Orbitz's first test of the SumTotal LMS was an Instructor-led Training (ILT) program facilitated by company trainers in Krakow, Poland.

According to Carolyne Matseshe-Crawford, Head of Global Contact Center Strategy Services for Orbitz Worldwide, consistency of training content delivery was key to their success. "We're a very multi-cultural team," Matseshe-Crawford explains. "We're now able to expand delivery of online and instructor-led content in 13 languages and around the world." With the successful deployment of SumTotal, Orbitz has expanded their learning initiative to serve training needs around the world including in Guatemala, Poland, Ireland, India, and the Philippines.

"Technology is central to our organization. We offer the best technology and we use the best technology," Matseshe-Crawford adds. "We are innovating by leveraging HR technology to influence and develop both internal and external audiences. SumTotal has enabled us to seamlessly deliver training to our own employees, as well as our business partners, using a single online solution. And this has increased our organizational performance."

"Effectively training the extended enterprise is a key growth strategy for large global organizations," said John Borgerding, Chief Executive Officer at SumTotal Systems (News - Alert). "We are leading the industry with innovations that enable customers like Orbitz to more effectively delivery learning across diverse audiences, inside and outside their organization, including customers, partners, suppliers, channel and distributor networks, and indpendent agents. Organizations are successfully turning external training initiatives into profit centers using our extended enterprise and e-commerce capabilities."

SumTotal provides a full range of strategic human capital management products, including the industry's most innovative and complete learning management platform, designed for both global enterprises and mid-sized organizations, and is based on SumTotal's cloud technology driving reduced total-cost-of-ownership and faster time-to-value.

For more information about SumTotal, visit the company's website at www.sumtotalsystems.com.

About Orbitz Worldwide

Orbitz Worldwide is a leading global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products. Orbitz Worldwide owns a portfolio of consumer brands that includes Orbitz (www.orbitz.com), CheapTickets (www.cheaptickets.com), ebookers (www.ebookers.com), HotelClub (www.hotelclub.com), RatesToGo (www.ratestogo.com) and the Away Network (www.away.com). Also within the Orbitz Worldwide family, Orbitz Worldwide Distribution (http://corp.orbitz.com/partnerships/distribution) delivers private label travel solutions to a broad range of partners including many of the world's largest airlines, and Orbitz for Business (www.orbitzforbusiness.com) delivers managed corporate travel solutions for corporations. For more information on partnership opportunities with Orbitz Worldwide, visit corp.orbitz.com. Orbitz Worldwide uses its Investor Relations website to make information available to its investors and the public at http://www.orbitz-ir.com. You can sign up to receive email alerts whenever the company posts new information to the website.

About SumTotal Systems

SumTotal Systems, Inc. is the global leader in strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions that provide organizations with a new level of visibility to help make more informed business decisions and accelerate growth. Recognized by industry analysts as the most complete solution, SumTotal provides full employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, from a single provider for improved business intelligence. The company offers customers of all sizes and industries the most flexibility and choice with multiple purchase, configuration, and deployment options. We have increased the performance of the world's largest organizations including Sony Electronics (NYSE: SNE), AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN [ADR]; London: AZN), Amway (KUL:AMWAY), Seagate (NYSE: STX), Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), and Google (News - Alert) (NASDAQ:GOOG).

For more information, or to request a demo, please call +1 (866) 768-6825 (US / Canada), +1 (352) 264-2800 (international) or visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.

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