SumTotal® Systems, LLC, the largest independent provider of integrated HR solutions, today announced it won a Gold Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award for "Best Advance in Creating a Fully Integrated Talent Management Platform." The company earned recognition for its elixHR Platform, the industry's first solution that virtualizes HR data across disparate HR and business systems, applications and processes to deliver organizations a single, comprehensive view of their workforce.

"It is our honor to recognize this year's award winners, who exemplify the commitment to innovation and excellence that drives growth and over-the-top business results," said Mike Cooke, Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group.

A panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executive leadership evaluated the entries based upon the following criteria:

  • Product: What was the product's breakthrough innovation?
  • Unique differentiators: What makes the product unique and how does it differ from any competing products?
  • Value proposition: What problem does the product solve and/or what need does this product address?
  • Measurable results: What are the benefits customers can expect to experience as a result of using this product?

SumTotal Chief Marketing Officer Holly Rollo said, "As the foundation of SumTotal's Talent Expansion TM strategy and applications, elixHR delivers pervasive learning, integrated talent management, and workforce capabilities across internal and external systems and applications. It enables a context-aware user experience to ensure that employees have immediate access to the tools they need to be better at their jobs while they are doing them."

The elixHR TM Platform was named Top HR Product for 2013 by Human Resource Executive Magazine editors and is drawing praise from customers like Praxair and Misys who are using it to transform the way they approach human capital management and drive business results.

"MiCareer has already shown itself to be truly transformational. As our leadership team communicates organizational and business goals through the HR system, staff are building a bottom-up picture of how they will contribute towards the overall big picture and how they need to develop their skills in order to meet their career aspirations. This top-down, bottom-up approach is starting to see the emergence of a high-performing, engaged organization ready to support the ambitious and aspirational business targets we have set ourselves for the next few years." - Charlotte DeMetz, Misys global head of HR (view case study)

For additional information, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com or view the elixHR video and elixHR datasheet. For talent management tips and perspectives, check out the SumTotal Blog.

About SumTotal Systems

SumTotal Systems, LLC, the largest independent provider of integrated HR solutions, is increasing the performance of some of the world's most successful organizations, including AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN[ADR]; London: AZN), Amway (KUL: AMWAY), and Seagate (NYSE: STX). The only HR solution provider to deliver Talent Expansion, a whole new approach to discovering, developing and unleashing hidden potential within our customers' workforce, SumTotal delivers employee enablement solutions that help organizations become great places to work. SumTotal's people-focused applications, available on premise and in the Cloud, enable contextual, just-in-time development designed to advance employees' skills and knowledge. Today, more than 3,500 organizations, including several of Fortune's "Best Places to Work," rely on SumTotal's on premise and cloud-based Talent Expansion applications to enable their employees.

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