REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-- Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people cloud provider, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Saba in the Visionaries Quadrant in its 2011 “Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software” report.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management (EPM) Software provides guidance for organizations that are looking to implement performance, succession and compensation management solutions. It positions vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Gartner Comments (1):
“We found that almost 56 percent of customers surveyed were using three of the five talent management applications (recruiting, performance, succession, compensation, and learning) from a single vendor. Customers continue to adopt ‘minisuites’…[T]hese results show that the depth and breadth of talent management suite offerings is improving, and that customers increasingly want to work with fewer providers to ease integration and analytics, and simplify vendor management requirements.”
“We continue to see vendors integrate social capabilities into their EPM solutions. There is still a big opportunity to integrate talent profile data that exists within EPM (and broader talent management solutions) with social profile data to enable a richer view. Since the last Magic Quadrant, we have seen new product introductions and acquisitions potentially accelerate this trend.”
Supporting Quotes:
"We have always believed that an organization’s most important and valuable asset is its people," said Laurent Pacalin, senior vice president and general manager of People Cloud Applications at Saba. “Saba offers an integrated suite of people cloud applications that extends beyond just traditional EPM products to include learning and continuous, social performance feedback all based on a single user profile. This gives organizations unprecedented insights into their talent pools enabling them to make better decisions on how best to cultivate and leverage the know-how within their employee bases to increase performance and drive business results.”
Saba People Performance Suite Highlights:
Saba People Performance Suite, including EPM, is a leading People Cloud offering that enables organizations to cultivate an environment where their talent can deliver exceptional results. The Saba People Performance Suite includes capabilities to support proactive performance management; more relevant performance reviews; real-time performance feedback; competency management capabilities; succession management; workforce planning; and compensation management. In addition, Saba makes these processes more engaging and relevant by:
Providing embedded enterprise business networking within performance processes for ongoing user engagement, feedback, and dynamic alignment
Enabling access via applications people use every day such as enterprise portals, mobile devices, and email to increase user adoption and engagement
Directly facilitating actionable development to close skill gaps and improve organizational performance
Supporting Resources:
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About the Magic Quadrant
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
(1) Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software”, James Holincheck, Thomas Otter, Jeff Freyermuth, 28 March 2011
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.
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