SABA AND SUMTOTAL
Get your LMS migration approved
Saba and SumTotal support ends on December 31, 2027, and enterprise migrations take 12-18 months. This toolkit includes the executive brief, the budget math, the deck, and answers to the questions leadership will ask. Fill in your numbers, and you have a defensible case in an afternoon.
The approval problem
Getting approval is harder than choosing the platform
- Finance wants an ROI and a payback period. Compliance wants to know what happens to your training records after support ends.
Your executive sponsor wants to know what it costs to wait. - Miss any one of those and the decision gets deferred. On a deadline, deferred is no.
- Whether you’re on Saba or SumTotal, the toolkit answers all three.
The approval problem
Getting approval is harder than choosing the platform
- Finance wants an ROI and a payback period. Compliance wants to know what happens to your training records after support ends. Your executive sponsor wants to know what it costs to wait.
- Miss any one of those and the decision gets deferred. On a deadline, deferred is no.
- Whether you’re on Saba or SumTotal, the toolkit answers all three.
Included ROI calculator
Calculate what your current LMS costs you every year
A live spreadsheet with formulas already built. Enter your admin hours, workaround tools, integration maintenance, and audit prep. It returns the three figures leadership will ask for:
- Your annual cost of doing nothing
- Your net annual benefit after switching
- Your breakeven, in months
Most teams have never totaled this. It takes about twenty minutes, and it’s the number that carries the meeting.
Eight components
Everything in the toolkit
Every piece is a template with your inputs bracketed.
Executive Brief
Three pages, structured the way executives read. Fill in the brackets.
Timeline Template
Works backward from your deadline to the latest date you can safely start. That date is your ask.
Talking Points
Seven questions executives ask about every migration, with answers that hold up.
Budget Worksheet
Live spreadsheet covering the costs people forget, including internal staff time and integration rebuilds.
Stakeholder Worksheet
Who has influence, who has veto power, and what each one cares about.
Presentation Deck
Eight slides with speaker notes on each.
Cost of Doing Nothing Worksheet
The number that changes the room.
Eight components
Everything in the toolkit
Every piece is a template with your inputs bracketed.
Executive Brief
Three pages, structured the way executives read. Fill in the brackets.
Timeline Template
Works backward from your deadline to the latest date you can safely start. That date is your ask.
Talking Points
Seven questions executives ask about every migration, with answers that hold up.
Budget Worksheet
Live spreadsheet covering the costs people forget, including internal staff time and integration rebuilds.
Stakeholder Worksheet
Who has influence, who has veto power, and what each one cares about.
Presentation Deck
Eight slides with speaker notes on each.
Cost of Doing Nothing Worksheet
The number that changes the room.
Who it’s for
Built for the person doing the work
The timeline
Every month you wait comes out of the implementation window
Migrations run for 12 to 18 months. Saba and SumTotal support ends on December 31, 2027.
Work backward, and the window is narrower than it looks.
| If you need to go live by… | You must start by… |
|---|---|
| June 2027 | Now. A 12-month plan is already tight |
| September 2027 | September 2026 at the latest |
| December 2027 (hard deadline) | December 2026, and only with a clean environment |
