Saba and SumTotal

Build Your LMS Business Case

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.

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Instant access to all eight components

Why LMS migration approval gets delayed

  • 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.

Everything in the toolkit

Timeline Template

Works backward from your deadline to the latest date you can safely start. That date is your ask.

Cost of Doing Nothing Worksheet

The number that changes the room.

Presentation Deck

Eight slides with speaker notes on each.

Budget Worksheet

Live spreadsheet covering the costs people forget, including internal staff time and integration rebuilds.

Who it’s for

Built for the person doing the work

Saba customers

Support ends in December 2027. Cornerstone is the default path, not the only one.

SumTotal customers

Support ends on the same date. Same default path, same reasons to evaluate alternatives.

Any enterprise LMS buyer

The math and the sequencing apply to any platform replacement.

The LMS migration timeline

Work backward from the 2027 deadline

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 Q4 2026 at the latest
December 2027 (hard deadline) December 2026, and only with a clean environment

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Also in this series

LMS Requirements Template

Write down what the new system has to do before vendor demos shape what you think you need.

Four Options Guide

A guide for L&D teams facing the Saba/SumTotal sunset to compare and score their four options.

Migration Checklist

Six phases and 40 action items, from the first audit to a full migration.