Howden Group Achieves Significant Talent Management Results with SumTotal Systems

Global Engineering Firm Engages, Retains Top Talent, Plans for Future Growth with Complete HR Platform

GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the global leader in complete learning and talent management solutions, announced today a new study showing significant achievements for global engineering firm Howden Group Ltd. since deploying SumTotal’s complete talent management solution. With tools to manage on-boarding, performance management, succession planning, workforce analytics, and HR Management, Howden has increased HR process efficiencies and retention of its top talent, while decreasing time-to-productivity for new employees and costs associated with employee turn-over.

“Our mission is to help our customers achieve tangible, bottom-line successes by providing the most complete and innovative HR technology. These tools drive not just processes, but also a mindset of talent management that can permeate all levels of an organization and lead to quantifiable and meaningful change.”

“SumTotal was the only solution that met our global needs,” says David Tough, Global HR Operations Manager at Howden. “One of the core benefits of SumTotal is they include all core talent management functions as well as a centralized and integrated system of record. This enables our managers and executives to make more knowledgeable decisions based on timely and accurate data. SumTotal’s solution is also highly configurable and easy to administer, which allows us to more easily comply with European Union data privacy laws.”

Howden Group Ltd., headquartered in the United Kingdom, has grown to become a worldwide organization with companies in 17 countries. Howden designs, engineers and supplies air and gas handling equipment such as industrial fans, process gas compressors and rotary heat exchangers.

Howden chose SumTotal to fill their need for a single, globally-deployable talent management solution that could provide visibility to all information on talent located around the globe, and create effective processes to retain and grow their workforce. The solution provides managers with an integrated source of current workforce information to improve the quality and effectiveness of talent decisions, which have a direct impact on overall company performance. Howden’s global deployment provides a centralized repository for all talent data, as well as powerful reporting and analytics tools to render the data for more effective decision making on talent issues.

In addition, SumTotal’s solution was able to provide the security and cloud-based hosting infrastructure needed to meet Howden’s international IT requirements. SumTotal’s solution is linking together all talent components into one system, from new hire information to scheduling, e-learning, and diverse content management on a global scale.

“SumTotal’s single user experience across the entire system really helped to make this program a success,” Tough says. “Managers and engineers are able to create performance assessments, development plans, and use e-learning courses and content all in one place – that improved our user adoption rates and lowered our training costs and has made a real impact on our business operations.”

Howden also employs SumTotal’s learning management solution to run Howden Academy – a comprehensive new-hire training program that helps improve retention for newly hired engineers while decreasing time-to-competency. Comprised of dozens of e-learning and instructor-led courses, the curriculum gives new engineers a better understanding of the company, and serves as an effective medium for passing on key skills from senior and retiring engineers to new team members.

“SumTotal is leading the industry with a single solution to support global enterprises such as Howden in driving business growth through improved workforce efficiencies,” said John Borgerding, CEO of SumTotal Systems. “Our mission is to help our customers achieve tangible, bottom-line successes by providing the most complete and innovative HR technology. These tools drive not just processes, but also a mindset of talent management that can permeate all levels of an organization and lead to quantifiable and meaningful change.”

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About SumTotal Systems

SumTotal Systems, Inc. is the global leader in complete learning and talent management solutions that enable organizations to more effectively drive business strategy and growth. Recognized by industry analysts as the most comprehensive 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 in all 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, GKN (London: GKN), and Seagate (NYSE: STX). For more information, or to request a demo, please call [phone] (US / Canada), [phone] (international) or visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.

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