SumTotal®
Systems, LLC, the largest independent provider of integrated HR
solutions, today announced that Patterson Companies (Nasdaq: PDCO), an
industry-leading specialty distributor serving the dental, veterinary
and rehabilitation supply markets, has selected SumTotal
Talent Expansion applications to expand its mobile and social
learning capabilities.
Patterson Companies, which is listed among Forbes’ Most Trustworthy
Companies, delivers its services and products to companies around the
globe with more than 7,000 employees in the U.S., Canada, United
Kingdom, Australia, France and China.
Patterson Companies’ Vice President of Human Resources Jerry Thygesen
said HR technology is a central part of the company’s strategic
objectives by ensuring current employees and the next generation of
leaders get the information and learning opportunities they need to
excel in their careers and drive business growth.
“We are committed to talent excellence. That commitment goes beyond
initially hiring employees and extends to how we can help them grow,
develop and progress within the company,” Thygesen said. “Part of
meeting that challenge means addressing mobile learning for our very
decentralized workforce and providing social capabilities to weave
informal learning into our programs and address how many employees
prefer to get information. SumTotal’s solutions will help us meet all of
these needs.”
Thygesen said an interactive, intuitive user interface, robust reporting
capabilities and plans to extend the company’s talent management
programs made SumTotal the best match.
“Innovative organizations, like Patterson Companies, recognize that
getting the most out of their people means providing them with the tools
they need to do their jobs better, while they are doing them, by
pervasively delivering content in context,” said Holly Rollo, SumTotal
chief marketing officer. “We are excited to collaborate with Paterson
Companies to provide them with solutions to meet their business goals
today and into the future.”
Read about SumTotal’s Talent
Expansion™ Applications, elixHR™
platform or view the Talent
Expansion video. For additional information, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.
Hear how other customers are using SumTotal’s award-winning Talent
Expansion solutions: http://www.youtube.com/user/sumtsystems?feature=watch
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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in the United States and/or other countries. Other names may be
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