Saba Customer Community Usage Grows Over 200 Percent from Last Quarter

BOSTON (November 02, 2010) – People 2010

Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people systems provider, today announced significant milestones in the customer adoption of Saba Live, its next-generation cloud-based enterprise business networking solution, within its Saba Customer Community.

Since its beta launch in May 2010, the Saba Customer Community has seen significant momentum in customer adoption, usage, and engagement. Powered by Saba Live, members of the Saba Customer Community are able to connect, share, and provide knowledge with each other and with Saba employees on today’s hottest issues, solutions, and thought leadership surrounding people initiatives, people performance, people learning, and collaboration. In addition, Saba customers are able to present ideas for product enhancements within the community’s Innovation Lab, where these ideas can be voted on by everyone within the community, providing Saba invaluable insight into what customers want and allowing customers to have direct input on Saba’s product roadmap.

With rich personal profiles, a user-friendly interface, and familiar social networking features such as Twitter-like feedback, walls, and secure groups, customers are able to easily join, participate, and become active members in this vibrant, competency-driven community.

Community Growth Highlights

• More than 700 active participants; over 500 customers
• Over 25 percent growth in new visitors monthly
• 20 active groups created within the community
• Over 170 percent growth in monthly visits to the site

Quotes

Jim Lundy, vice president and general manager, Saba Collaboration Solutions, said: “The collaboration tools we offer via Saba Live have enabled the success of the Saba Customer Community and affirm that customers are deriving value from interactive environments that engage users, enable collaboration, and enhance efficiency and productivity.”

Andy Wooler, HR technology manager, Legal and General Assurance Society Limited, said: “The Saba Customer Community is a great way for me to share and connect with my peers who understand the issues we face in our work. By providing a place where I can get feedback, provide input, and have access to a knowledge base, the community provides me a forum where I can gain invaluable insights on what is top-of-mind for HR professionals and how best to address these matters.”

Saba Live provides powerful enterprise business networking tools that are integrated with Saba Centra Web Conferencing. Saba Live integrates social and real-time collaboration, enabling a dynamic and engaged workforce, where employees, partners, and customers across an enterprise ecosystem can continuously connect and collaborate through Web 2.0 tools such as discussion forums, activity feeds, wikis, blogs, a Facebook-like wall, micro-blogs, resource lists, Twitter-like performance feedback, and social bookmarks.

For more information on Saba Live, please visit: http://www.saba.com/live.

Supporting Resources:

• YouTube: The Ask
• Saba Live: http://www.saba.com/live
• Saba Collaboration Suite: http://www.saba.com/collaboration
• 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.

Contact
Saba
Jenny Lee, 650-581-2615
Director of PR and AR
jlee@Saba.com

Source: Saba