Saba Advances Real-Time Learning and Collaboration With Saba Centra 7.6

New Recording Studio Enables Easy Web 2.0 Knowledge Capture and Contribution for Improved Business Performance

Saba-Centra Global Summit 2007—San Francisco, Calif.—November 6, 2007—Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today unveiled the next generation of its real-time learning platform, Saba Centra 7.6. This new release enables community-based content creation with an innovative recording studio, extends online learning effectiveness with more accessible hands-on training and drives usage of web conferencing and collaboration through integration with popular business applications. With Saba Centra 7.6, organizations will be able advance real-time learning and improve business performance by expanding knowledge reach and access across large, geographically distributed organizations. 

“Saba Centra enables our customers to improve the effectiveness of their organization with easy sharing, recording, editing, and publishing of knowledge, online and offline, that enhances learning programs as part of a unified people management strategy,” said Amar Dhaliwal, senior vice president product operations for Saba. “As companies continue to expand globally and welcome the next generation of employees, we will continue to innovate with leading-edge Web2.0 collaboration capabilities to cost-effectively create and share information—formally and informally—across their organization.”

Farm Credit Financial Partners, Inc. (Financial Partners, Inc. or FPI) is a dedicated service corporation that provides high-quality, cost-effective business solutions for Farm Credit associations. With a customer base that stretches from Maine to California, the company needed a time-saving, cost-effective training solution. “To address this need, Financial Partners, Inc. developed extensive training opportunities through Saba Centra, which we open to all customers.” said Art Lash, director of e-Learning for FPI.  “Through the Saba Centra virtual classroom, we provide software training to hundreds of employees nationwide, eliminating the need for travel to training sessions, and we make the tool available to our customers for their internal use. We’re excited about new Saba Centra features, such as Centra Recording Studio, that will help us take online learning to the next level by providing all our customers with the power to quickly record, edit and share expertise across their organizations.”

New in Saba Centra 7.6
Saba Centra enables real-time learning that accelerates critical business initiatives and lowers operational costs by incorporating virtual classes, web seminars, self-service web meetings and content management into everyday business practice. Moreover, by integrating Saba Centra with Saba Learning, organizations can provide users with the full continuum of learning.

The new features in Saba Centra 7.6 will enable rapid knowledge transfer and ensure that knowledge shared—formally, informally or on-demand by an individual—is captured and made available across an entire organization.  By capturing knowledge-transfer as it happens and reusing it as a corporate knowledge asset, organizations will be able to enhance how they educate, inform and train globally distributed employees, customers and partners. 

New features in Centra 7.6 include:

Centra Recording Studio – Provides on-demand access to knowledge through an intuitive application that will enable subject matter experts and business users to quickly create, manage and publish professional-quality, rich media content online of offline. Employees will be able to effortlessly create and update knowledge objects such as process documentation, product training, competitive updates, corporate materials and more.  By publishing these knowledge objects to the Saba Knowledge Base, users will be able to easily extend the reach of their knowledge across the extended enterprise.

Surgient Virtual Labs Extension – Provides hassle-free hands-on training through extended lab support from Surgient’s Virtual Training Lab Management System (VTMS).  Users will be able to access live enterprise applications for hands-on learning—removing the need to install and manage software on-site. Class leaders will be able to reserve lab time and move participants to individual labs to conduct personalized, hands-on application training, directly from Centra.  With Saba Centra and Surgient, organizations will have the industry’s leading real-time training solution that can enable broad, on-demand, experiential learning, regardless of where a user is located.

Business Application Integration – Provides access to Centra from everyday business applications, making it easy to collaborate and share information directly from the desktop within the context of day-to-day work.  Users will be able to schedule and start real-time meetings from new versions of applications that include: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Office and EMC eRoom.   All sessions may be automatically recorded and repurposed as organizational knowledge assets.

Enhanced Browser and OS Support – Provides support for Firefox 2.0 for the Mac and Microsoft Windows Vista that will enable anytime, anywhere access to Saba Centra.

"We have used Saba Centra across our campus to enhance our classroom instruction with virtual learning while simultaneously increasing our course offerings and enrollments and reducing instructor travel related expenses." said Becky Vasquez, Student and Technology Services Director for Worldwide Campus at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.  “The new features in Saba Centra will make it easy to share course materials as well as enhance hands-on lab and application training capabilities for our constituents."  Since 1970, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has provided educational opportunities for civilian and military professionals in aviation and aerospace who are unable to attend classes at one of the University's residential campuses. The Worldwide Campus at Embry-Riddle offers academic programs both in the classroom through a network of more than 130 centers in the United States and Europe and through Web-based online learning.

“In collaboration with Contact North/Contact Nord we have used Saba Centra to initiate virtual learning and training in remote areas of Northern Ontario with First Nations communities which has substantially reduced our travel expenses and allowed us to expand learning opportunities,” said Michelle Eady, distance projects coordinator for Sioux Hudson Literacy Council.  “We’re excited about the new Saba Centra release that will provide our instructors with the ability to collaborate as well as quickly capture and share knowledge in real-time across our network.” Contact North/Contact Nord is a vital link between Northern Ontario’s educational institutions – universities, colleges and school boards– and its residents.  The Network functions as a delivery agent on behalf of 13 Educational Partners, delivering programs and courses to small and remote communities through 90 Access Centers.

Availability
Saba Centra 7.6 will be generally available December 2007. Saba Centra 7.6 will offer broad language support, including English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and traditional and simplified Chinese.  For more information about Saba Centra 7.6, please visit www.saba.com/centra.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, without limitation, statements regarding future releases of Saba’s products. Saba's actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties Saba faces that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: Saba's dependence on growth of the markets for Saba's products, dependence on acceptance of Saba's products by customers and channel partners, fluctuation in customer spending, length of Saba's sales cycle, competition, rapid technological change, dependence on new product introductions and enhancements and potential software defects. Readers should also refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors” on pages 11 through 21 of Saba's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2007 and similar disclosures in subsequent Saba periodic SEC reports. The forward-looking statements and risks stated in this press release are based on information available to Saba today. Saba assumes no obligation to update them.

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 address all aspects of strategic HCM and are 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-Lucent, 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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