Saba Centra Delivers Web 2.0 Collaboration to Saba Learning Suite
Saba Harnesses the Power of People for Dynamic Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Throughout the Enterprise
Redwood Shores, Calif. – August 07, 2007 – Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced the availability of Saba Centra 7.5 Service Pack 4. Through deepened integration with Saba Learning, Saba Centra 7.5 SP4 ushers in a new era of learning based on Web 2.0 models. In addition, it advances Saba Centra core technology for real-time learning and collaboration.
“It’s all about providing our customers with a truly seamless, unified system for a collaborative approach to learning,” said Saba chairman and CEO, Bobby Yazdani. “Injecting Web 2.0 thinking into learning processes makes learning even more effective through value added by an organization’s most important asset – its people. We will continue to provide easy-to-use solutions to enable our customers to accelerate their people processes.”
Saba Learning Suite is rich with Web 2.0 features for facilitating informal knowledge sharing and reaping the benefits of new social networking with collaborative technology. Users can now easily initiate real-time Saba Centra meetings directly from the Saba Learning interface, and recordings of these live sessions are stored in Saba Learning. In the social-networking mode, participants can be intelligently invited to live sessions based on advanced search capabilities to find experts and to create communities-of-practice. Enterprise learning becomes a dynamic experience where every employee can participate and contribute to organizational knowledge – accelerating business performance and productivity.
Saba Learning and Saba Centra illustrate Saba’s continuing efforts to deliver an extended suite of products and services that enable enterprises to strategically align, develop and manage their people. Scotiabank, one of North America's premier financial institutions and Canada’s most international bank, uses Saba Learning and Saba Centra to connect 57,000 employees in 50 countries around the world. “Saba Centra makes it easy for our employees to access learning courses and share knowledge, which is essential in such a geographically distributed organization,” said Linda White, Vice President, Global Performance & Learning Office, Scotiabank.
Beyond Blended Learning
Saba Learning Suite now addresses the full continuum of learning – formal, informal, live, self-paced, and blended. The solution gives customers an easy-to-manage environment, while enabling them to measure learning completion and effectiveness across a variety of activities. By closely integrating Saba Centra with Saba Learning, customers have a seamless, easy-to-use solution for capturing and reusing critical knowledge throughout the organization. Administration is streamlined with new features that enable learning administrators to set up virtual classes and assign user roles as they define courses and curricula in Saba Learning, eliminating the separation of asynchronous and synchronous learning management and delivery that exists in other solutions.
Advancement of Saba Centra Core Technology
The release of Saba Centra 7.5 Service Pack 4 also advances Centra’s core real-time technology by allowing users on Microsoft Vista PCs to attend and participate in live sessions, broadening the reach of training and communication. Saba Centra now also supports content created with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. In addition, Saba Centra supports sessions run using a dual monitor configuration--even when sharing applications--increasing productivity through use of a larger display.
About Saba
Founded in 1997, Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier global provider of strategic human capital management (HCM) software and services. Saba’s people management solutions are used by more than 1,200 organizations and over 17 million end users worldwide. Saba’s solutions increase organizational performance by aligning workforce goals with organizational strategy; developing, managing and rewarding their people; and improving collaboration.
Saba product offerings include Saba Learning, Saba Centra, Saba Performance, Saba Compensation and Saba Talent available both on-premise and OnDemand www.saba.com/products. To ensure long-term customer success, our global services capabilities and partnerships provide strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.
Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, Caterpillar, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group, Kaiser Permanente, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Renault, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotiabank, Singapore Ministry of Finance, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, Tata Consultancy Services, Wyndham International, Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters Laboratories, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Saba has offices on five continents. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call +1-877-SABA-101 or +1-650-779-2791.
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Leena Kamath
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