SumTotal
Systems, LLC, a Skillsoft company and a leading provider of
next-generation HR solutions, today announced the company and its
customers, Praxair, Inc., and McAfee, earned gold and silver excellence
awards, respectively, from Brandon Hall Group.
In a joint submission for the 2014
Brandon Hall Excellence Awards, SumTotal and Praxair (NYSE: PX) won
gold in the “Best in Talent Management Technology Implementations”
category; Praxair is the largest industrial gases company in North and
South America and one of the largest worldwide. In the second joint
submission, McAfee and SumTotal took silver for “Best Use of Learning
and Talent Technologies” for sales and marketing; McAfee, part of Intel
Security, is recognized as the world’s largest dedicated security
technology company.
"I’m honored to recognize this group of elite organizations with
phenomenal programs across HCM functions. The winners truly exemplified
excellence around the critical business dimensions across the award
categories, including a high standard of performance in their
organization and demonstrated clear, measurable business results through
these innovative programs,” said Rachel Cooke, Brandon Hall Group COO.
Praxair earned a gold excellence award for its progressive approach to
implementing SumTotal Talent Expansion® applications to further advance
its international HR processes for employee data management, performance
management, compensation and development. The company developed a robust
process to rollout an integrated solution to its 27,000 employees
located in 50 countries. Praxair’s approach has helped the company to
make incremental HR improvements tailored to the needs of each of its
locations using SumTotal’s elixHR® Platform.
McAfee earned kudos for transforming its sales kickoff training to
improve user experience, reduce training time, and increase compliance.
The company used SumTotal’s learning and analytics solutions to
incorporate gamification to make learning more fun and engaging and to
provide real-time data to leaders to encourage employee participation.
As a result, on-time completions jumped from 75 percent in 2012 to 99
percent in 2013, and user satisfaction ratings climbed from 3.5 in 2012
to 4.5 in 2013 on a five-point scale.
“Our relationships with Praxair and McAfee exemplify how SumTotal
collaborates with customers to help them achieve business goals. These
companies, and their senior leaders, demonstrate a commitment to
investing in their employees and creating great places to work,” said
Hardeep Gulati general manager and head of SumTotal. “We congratulate
both organizations for their achievements and are proud to be recognized
alongside them for their innovative approaches to learning, talent and
HR programs.”
Now in its 20th year, the Brandon Hall Excellence Awards recognize
organizations that have successfully developed and deployed programs,
strategies, processes, systems and tools to achieve measurable results.
The entries were evaluated by a panel of independent senior industry
experts and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executives.
Representatives from McAfee will present another success story, “Mobile
learning in the Real World,” at SumTotal’s upcoming global user
conference, TotalConnection,
which will be held Oct. 27-30 at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami.
See how McAfee
and other customers, including US
Airways, Experian
and Howden,
are achieving success with SumTotal Talent Expansion solutions at www.youtube.com/sumtsystems
or www.sumtotalsystems.com/resources/.
To learn more about SumTotal, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.
About SumTotal Systems
SumTotal
Systems, LLC, a Skillsoft company and a leading 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).
SumTotal’s people-focused Talent Expansion® applications, available on
premise and in the Cloud, enable contextual, just-in-time development
designed to help organizations discover, develop and unleash the hidden
potential within their workforce and business ecosystem. Today, more
than 3,500 organizations, including several of Fortune’s “Best Places to
Work,” rely on SumTotal’s award winning solutions to empower their
employees. Visit the SumTotal
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