REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., December 12, 2011
- Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the
premier People Cloud provider, today announced that Gartner, Inc.
has positioned Saba as a "Leader" in the 2011 "Magic Quadrant
for Web Conferencing" report. The report provides guidance
for organizations that are looking to implement
Web conferencing solutions for benefits such as increased
collaboration, cost savings and reduced business travel. It
positions vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability
to execute.
Gartner Comments (1):
"The growth of Web conferencing has continued, driven by
cost-saving initiatives and improvements in the technology's ease
of use and performance."
"The worlds of social media, collaboration and
enterprise applications are starting to merge, bringing
real-time capabilities to business process and personal
productivity applications."
"Real-time and conferencing functions are appearing as
components of larger collaboration platforms and portfolios.
The market is shifting so that real-time and conferencing
functions are becoming embeddable capabilities."
"Bandwidth concerns are increasing as companies look to add
video and expand the scale of conferencing sessions."
Supporting Quotes
"With Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration, we can
connect visually with our students to reap the benefits of
face-to-face communications. Additionally, with a highly
dispersed and mobile student body, it is critical for us to
have the most forward-looking technology that works on mobile
devices, such as the iPhone and iPad," said Becky Vasquez,
chief technology officer, Embry-Riddle. "Since our launch
of EagleVision, our virtual classroom using Saba Centra
Real-Time Collaboration, the reviews from both faculty and
students have been very positive and student participation has
increased nearly 100 percent in the past year alone."
"Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration allows us to
easily connect with a large, dispersed audience of sales,
management and technical training professionals. We conduct
meetings, training sessions, virtual trade shows, sales
events, and coaching for new hires, all of which are stored in
a content library of recordings that employees can access
anytime, anywhere from any device," said Rick Vlahos,
executive director, Hearth Patio & Barbecue Education
Foundation. "We have employees scattered all over the
US and Canada, including in rural areas with marginal Internet
connections.
Accessibility to content and the ability to collaborate are key
requirements for our organization; employees have found Saba
Centra Real-Time Collaboration to be the most convenient and
user-friendly solution."
"With an increasingly global and dispersed workforce,
real-time collaboration in a visual format is becoming key for
enhanced engagement, collaboration and innovation," said
Emily He, vice president of product marketing, Saba.
"Additionally, as the market evolves, we continue to leverage
integration with Saba's award-winning learning management,
talent management and enterprise social networking solutions
to provide customers with a unified platform that enables
organizations to be better prepared for the new world of
work."
Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration
Highlights
Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration is an
industry-leading Web conferencing, online meeting, virtual
classroom, and webinar solution that enables an organizations
extended enterprise, including employees, customers, and partners,
to interact, communicate, share, and exchange knowledge in
real-time. By making it easy to capture and share knowledge as
it happens, Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration increases the value
of session content and improves collaboration among globally
dispersed workforces and ecosystems.
Combining real-time collaboration capabilities (like video
conferencing, VoIP audio conferencing, text chat, and application
sharing) with enterprise social networking capabilities (including
the ability to create collaborative groups, publish content to
YouTube-like video channels, and access information through
interactive mobile Apps on iPhone or iPad), Saba Centra Real-Time
Collaboration is transforming how work gets done beyond meetings in
a next-generation collaboration platform. In addition, Saba Centra
Real-Time Collaboration provides seamless integration with Saba
Learning Management, Talent Management, and Enterprise Social
Networking.
Its dynamic, interactive environment provides the
experience of in-person sessions without incurring the costs
of travel. Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration
provides options to use VoIP, teleconference, or a mix of both
in any session. Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration is
available in the Cloud and on-premise. The solution is
also available on PC, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad.
About the Saba People Cloud
- Saba People Cloud Applications, including Saba Centra
Real-Time Collaboration, help organizations transform their
business by enabling them to:
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Accelerate innovation by tapping into social
and mobile capabilities to engage and connect employees to the
right people, information, and ideas throughout the people network
to drive new innovation and faster time to market.
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Mobilize their people network for speed and
agility to seize new opportunities through complete talent
visibility and mobility. The Saba People Cloud provides
organizations with visibility into all of the skills, experience,
competencies, and connections of the people in their people
network, as well as the ability to quickly align them to new
business initiatives.
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Cultivate a development culture inside
and outside their organization to arm their people network
with the knowledge they need, when they need it, to excel at
their jobs, develop in their careers, and drive higher
performance.
- Leverage the Cloud with a completely unified, multi-tenant SaaS
solution architecture and infrastructure that reduces costs, speeds
time to benefit, and provides the flexibility to scale globally and
adapt locally to fit your operational and financial needs.
Supporting Resources
Saba People Cloud Applications: www.saba.com
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About the Magic Quadrant
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or
service depicted in our research publications, and does not
advise technology users to select only those vendors with
the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of
the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not
be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose.
(1) Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Web
Conferencing", David Mario Smith, 5 December 2011
About Saba
Saba NASDAQ: SABA) enables organizations to build a
transformative workplace that leverages the advent of social
networking in business and the ubiquity of mobile to empower an
organization's most mission-critical assets - its people. The
company provides a unified set of People Cloud Applications including
learning management, talent
management, enterprise
social networking, and real-time collaboration delivered
through the Saba People Cloud.Saba
solutions help organizations leverage their people networks to
become more competitive through innovation, speed, agility, and
trust.
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 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.
Saba
Aly Kline, 650-581-2593
PR Associate
akline@saba.com
Source: Saba
