SumTotal Talent Development 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

SumTotal Talent Development

2.7

(3)

Pricing

Starting at $10,000.00 per year

About SumTotal Talent Development

SumTotal Talent Development enables small and medium-sized businesses to handle recruiting, onboarding, learning management and performance tracking operations. It enables managers to create individual development plans (IDPs), track employees’ goals and monitor their performance via a unified platform.

Features of SumTotal Talent Development include continuous feedback, succession planning, an activity dashboard, custom templates, employee engagement, progress tracking, rater selection, a self-service portal, compliance management, reporting and more. Additionally, the application allows HR teams to gain insights into candidates’ skills, behavior and competency through assessments.

SumTotal Talent Development facilitates integration with several in-house and third-party platforms such as SkillSoft, OpenSesame, SumTotal Spoke, ServiceNow, Adobe Connect and more. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email, documentation and other online measures.

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SumTotal Talent Development Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $10,000.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$10,000.00

flat rate, per year

No plan information available

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SumTotal Talent Development Features

Popular features found in Human Resources
Applicant Tracking
Benefits Management
Compensation Management
Employee Management
Onboarding
Payroll Management
Performance Management
Recruitment Management
Time & Attendance
More features of SumTotal Talent Development
360 Degree Feedback
Activity Dashboard
Analytics
API
Assessment Management
Background Screening
Billing & Invoicing
Boolean Search
Candidate Management
Candidate Profiles
Candidate Tracking
Career Development
Collaboration Tools
Competency Management
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Continuous Feedback
Course Management
CRM
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Electronic Forms
Employee Database
Employee Engagement
Employee Profiles
Goal Management
Goal Setting/Tracking
Individual Development Plans
Internal HR
Interview Management
Interview Scheduling
Job Posting
Job Requisition
Learning Management
Mobile Access
Offboarding
Ongoing Performance Tracking
Orientation Workflow Management
Peer Appraisals
Performance Review Management
Progress Tracking
Question Library
Rater Selection
Recruiting Firms
Reference Checking
Reporting/Analytics
Resume Parsing
Resume Search
Review Cycle Tracking
Self Assessment
Self Service Portal
Skills Assessment
Social Media Integration
Succession Planning
Surveys & Feedback
Talent Management
Task Management
Training Administration
Training Management
Weighted Performance Measures
Workflow Management

SumTotal Talent Development User Reviews

Overall Rating

2.7

Ratings Breakdown

67%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

2.3

Value for money

2.0

Customer support

2.3

Functionality

3.0

Have you used SumTotal Talent Development and would like to share your experience with others?

katie d.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed February 2017

Difficult Administration Functionality

It's easy for staff and most supervisors to use this solution, but the administrative user roles are complicated. It seems like they took pieces of functionality from other systems and smashed them together. I have a gut feeling they are not experts in their code.

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Madeleine C.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed December 2016

Needs an update

SumTotal seems like a clunky, outdated software to use. User experience is awful and frustrating, but I suppose it at least works.

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Verified

Reviewer

Government Administration

501-1000 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Difficult to use, lacking functionality

Their sales pitch and communication at first was great. I don't know if the company was maybe going through some change. It didn't work out for us.

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Initial customer support and the sales pitch sure sounded great. As we got closer to contract closing, things changed.

Cons:

lacking desired functionality which was originally promised, customization that was advertised and promised was not there. High startup and implementation cost. We ultimately did not close on the contract and moved on to a different solution.

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