People 2010 — Saba Global Summit, Boston, MA – November 4, 2010 – Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people systems provider, today announced the winners of this year’s Customer Excellence Awards at People 2010 -- Saba Global Summit. Saba received a record number of submissions representing a cross-section of cloud and on-premise customers in both mid-market and enterprise-level organizations. The annual awards program honors organizations that demonstrate innovative use of Saba People Systems, resulting in excellent business or humanitarian outcomes.
“All of this year’s Customer Excellence Award recipients have demonstrated exceptional innovation and creativity in using Saba People Systems to advance the goals of their organizations,” said Bobby Yazdani, Chairman and CEO, Saba. “We are committed to providing our customers best-of-breed people systems to enable them to deliver new approaches to allow their employees to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and deliver on their business objectives.”
The winners were:
Humanitarian Award — HonorsSaba customers who have engaged in humanitarian services (local, national, or international) in a not-for-profit, charitable capacity using Saba People Systems.
- Winner: South Australian Department of Education and Children’s Services (DECS)
Learning Power Award — HonorsSaba customers who have achieved unique and far-reaching business advantages through their use of Saba Learning, Saba Centra Web Conferencing, or Saba Collaboration (for example, by using Web conferencing, collaboration, or Web 2.0 technologies; mentoring programs; communities of practice; or a combination of several of these areas).
- Winners: Nemours, AstraZeneca, Future Electronics, and Yum!
Collaboration & Social Media Power Award — HonorsSaba customers who have achieved excellence or innovation in collaboration or social media using Saba Centra Web Conferencing, Saba Collaboration, and/or Saba Live. There is an emphasis on customers who conducted collaboration or social media campaigns that increased organizational alignment, helped close knowledge or recruiting gaps, and/or raised brand or product awareness for employees, distribution channels, or end-users.
- Winners: Legal & General Assurance Society Limited and Allina Hospitals & Clinics
People System Power Award — HonorsSaba customers who have overhauled people management processes and deployed Saba People Systems in a commercial business, government agency, or academic institution. The organization has established a learning or collaboration framework across multiple disciplines that is flexible, accessible, and relevant, and meets the needs of the organization and its clients.
- Winners: Sydney Water and Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Estado de Minas Gerais
ROI Power Awards — HonorsSaba customers who have realized measurable business results and ROI in the areas of revenue, productivity, and the adoption of people performance strategies for a business unit, department, or companywide.
- Winners: InterContinental Hotels Group and FedEx Office
Government & Academic Power Award — HonorsSaba customers who have deployed Saba People Systems in a public sector agency or academic institution to improve performance of their people or create a community to share knowledge and facilitate cross-functional collaboration.
- Winner: Bentley University
Innovation Power Award — HonorsSaba customers who have deployed Saba People Systems and demonstrated vision or innovation in technology, learning methods, or people performance.
Special Recognition for Saba’s Chief Learning Officer Magazine’s Learning in Practice Award to Media-Saturn — Saba won the top award in the “Excellence in Learning Management Systems (LMS) ” category for the publication’s 2010 Learning in Practice Awards for the implementation of Saba’s People Systems at European consumer electronics giant Media-Saturn. This implementation encompassed multiple geographies in Europe and Asia, local languages, and completion in under four weeks.
About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) provides a new class of interactive applications that combine enterprise learning, people management, and collaboration technologies. Today’s enterprises are using Saba solutions to align and connect people around new strategies and initiatives, accelerate the flow of business, and cultivate, capture, and share individual and collective knowhow to stimulate creativity and 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.
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