Saba Delivers Integrated Enterprise Business Networking Platform, Powerful, Real Time Meetings, Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools and Social Learning

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (September 01, 2010) – Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people systems provider, today announced the general availability of Saba Live, its next- generation cloud-based enterprise business networking solution. Saba Live includes powerful Web 2.0 social tools integrated with Saba Centra Web Conferencing for real time collaboration.

Thriving in an increasingly competitive business environment requires enterprise employees to engage, mobilize and collaborate effectively, aligning processes across many functions and business groups. To drive innovation and improve productivity and efficiency, Saba Live enables employees, partners and customers to communicate, cultivate knowhow, and share ideas and materials in real-time, from anywhere in the world.

Saba Live:

• Saba Live combines rich personal profiles, competency-driven expertise, Twitter-like feedback, blended learning, secure groups and workplace analytics to deliver an unprecedented collaboration experience.
• Saba Live features:

• Unified People Profile provides a complete view of continuously updated competencies, skills, interests and talent
• Expertise Locator identifies organizational knowledge through powerful search capabilities.
• Pages simplifies the creation of rich web pages, masking the complexity found in typical wiki solutions.
• Ideas supports crowd-sourcing innovation in the organization with social voting, rating and tagging.
• Ratings enables Twitter-like performance feedback by co-workers, complementing the formal, periodic performance review process with continuous, informal input.
• Groups creates cross-functional secure communities of practice that can collaborate to get work done.
• Unified View of content allows people to share files, author Pages, contribute Internet content, share videos, record web conferences and federate content from repositories like Microsoft SharePoint. All content can be rated and shared, resulting in an always up-to-date knowledge base that averts stale intranet content.
• Conferences supports virtual conferences powered by Saba Centra Web Conferencing technology with spontaneous, easy setup and recording as well as real-time communication.
• Channels delivers YouTube-like ease of video sharing to the enterprise by organizing Saba Centra recordings and videos, enabling formal and social learning within the organization.
• Meetings enables collaboration with desktop sharing video and VoIP for real time collaboration anytime and anywhere including devices such as the iPhone and the iPad.

Supporting Quotes:

• Jim Lundy, vice president and general manager, Saba Collaboration Solutions, said: “Saba Live supports a dynamic and engaged workforce, where employees, partners and customers across an enterprise ecosystem can continuously connect and collaborate through Web 2.0 tools. The launch of this new platform reflects Saba’s dedication to delivering the industry’s most innovative collaboration solutions to help our customers work more efficiently and productively.”
• Josh Bersin, president and CEO of Bersin & Associates, a leading research and advisory services company, said: “Saba Live is a new class of product which integrates collaboration, social networking, knowledge management and learning on a single unified platform. With this announcement, Saba is signaling that it intends to have the most complete and modern collaborative environment on the market.”
• Janice Watrous-McCabe, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, a not-for-profit network of hospitals, clinics and other health care services, said: “Collaboration ensures accurate information is shared between all employees, improving up-to-date knowledge of best practices, specific medical situations and procedures, particular patient needs and training information. Saba Collaboration solutions have enabled over 23,000 users at Allina Hospitals and Clinics to collaborate in over 117 communities that span 11 hospitals and 50 clinic locations, improving patient care and comfort system-wide. The release of Saba Live marks a very exciting development in social learning.”

Supporting Resources:

• YouTube: The Ask http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkP49rBrq68&feature=player_embedded
• Saba Live: http://www.saba.com/live
• Follow Saba blogs: http://www.saba.com/blogs/
• Follow Saba on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SabaSoftware

About Saba

Saba (NASDAQ:SABA) provides a new class of people systems that combine enterprise learning, people management, and collaboration technologies. Today’s people-driven enterprises are using Saba’s solutions to mobilize and engage people around new strategies and initiatives, align and connect people to accelerate the flow of business, and cultivate, capture, and share individual and collective knowhow to effectively compete and succeed.

Saba’s premier customer base includes major global organizations and industry leaders in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, packaged goods, and public sector organizations. Saba’s solutions are available both on-premise and in the cloud, and are underpinned by global services capabilities and partnerships encompassing strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.

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.

SABA, the Saba logo, Saba Centra, and the marks relating to Saba products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Jenni Adair, 650-696-1610
Director of PR and AR
jadair@saba.com

Source: Saba