Shoplogix has created the position of vice-president of Product Development and Customer Support for Karen McKibbin. Her responsibilities include product development and post-sales customer support. According to Scott Birmingham, Manager of Product Marketing, “This new position filled by Karen brings value to our customers by creating a single point of responsibility for spearheading and managing product development and post-sales technical support.”

Karen has over 20 years of information technology experience in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining Shoplogix as Vice President of Product Development and Customer Support, she was responsible for leading the integration of technology services and the provision of support and service management for a number of provincial ministries. Most recently, as project director, Karen led the consolidation of the messaging environment for over 12,000 provincial ministry clients and the establishment of the technology infrastructure for the newly formed Ontario ministries of Health Promotion and Children and Youth Services.

ABOUT SHOPLOGIX
Shoplogix develops integrated web-based software solutions that optimize plant floor operations. Shoplogix solutions improve productivity, efficiency, and total operational performance by allowing companies to make real-time decisions that impact profitability while actively engaging employees in the process.

Shoplogix Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Oakville, Ontario, with offices across North America. The company serves a growing base of Global 2000 companies to set new standards for production performance and efficiency in industrial environments.

PLANTNODE
Plantnode is a hybrid web-based software application designed on an open platform to integrate with existing production equipment, analyze real-time performance, and evaluate machine productivity. Plantnode’s built-in intelligence goes beyond raw data collection to provide a fully integrated production and performance management application; differentiated by the ability to compare real-time data against planned estimates. Plantnode is proven to increase Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and enables machine level visibility on a 24×7 basis with automatic escalations and interactive processes to drive higher levels of operational efficiency, quality, and performance.

PLANTNODE NETWORK
Plantnode Network is an enterprise web-based software application that consolidates and analyzes operational data for all Plantnode enabled equipment providing a complete and accurate view of production performance. Plantnode Network’s distributed design provides true enterprise scalability to evaluate real-time performance on a plant-wide, multi-site, or global basis.

SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), a global provider of talent and learning management solutions, announced the appointment of Kim Lewin as vice president of sales for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Lewin joins SumTotal from Attunity Ltd. a leader in the data connectivity market . He will play a pivotal role in executing SumTotal’s short- and long-term strategies, using his considerable experience with direct and indirect sales channels in the U.K. and Europe.

According to market-research firm IDC, worldwide corporate elearning revenue across EMEA is forecast to grow from $1.6 billion in 2007 to $4.1 billion in 2011. IDC’s recently published “Worldwide and U.S. Corporate eLearning 2007 – 2011 Forecast” also states that a majority of prospective clients are expecting to increase their elearning investment in the coming fiscal year, with the most rapid adoption coming from the U.K., Scandinavia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Prior to Lewin’s role at Attunity, he held a number of senior posts in the technology industry at organizations such as Cognos, Informix, Ardent and Unidata.

Jack Kramer, SumTotal’s vice president and general manager for international operations, said, “I am delighted to have this opportunity to welcome Kim to the SumTotal team. We believe Kim’s experience and ability will be a tremendous asset to SumTotal’s EMEA operations, and we are all excited at the prospect of working alongside him.”