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 – at the individual, team and
organizational level.
- 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:
About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier provider of people management software and services that enable the people-driven enterprise. Saba's solutions help global enterprises and public sector organizations quickly respond and adapt to today's complex and rapidly changing environments.
Saba's people platform aligns and harnesses the expertise, skills, and ideas of an increasingly distributed and mobile work force. Working with Saba, organizations are able to align, engage, develop, mobilize, and foster collaboration across employees, customers, and partners in support of increased adaptability, rapid innovation, enhanced productivity, and speed to market.
Saba's solutions are used by more than 1,300 organizations and over 17 million end-users worldwide. Our solutions are available both on-premise and OnDemand, and are underpinned by global services capabilities and partnerships that provide strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.
As the acknowledged standard in people management, Saba's premier customer base includes the major global industry leaders in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, packaged goods, and public sector organizations.
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.
Contacts
Saba
Jenni Adair
Director of PR and AR
(O) 650.696.1610
jadair@saba.com
Twitter: @SabaSoftware
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