| Westinghouse Electric Selects Saba's Centra Live for eMeetings
Company to Deploy Global Collaboration Solution to Improve Communication with Business Partners
Redwood Shores, Calif., July 24, 2006 — Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, announced that Westinghouse Electric Company has selected Centra Live for eMeetings to help effectively communicate and share information internally and externally.
With more than 9,000 employees worldwide, Westinghouse provides a complete range of fuel, products, services and new nuclear power designs to utilities throughout the world. The company will leverage the hosted Centra Live for eMeetings solution to support real-time, global collaboration with its business partners and foster its "ease of doing business" practices as well as other customer intimacy initiatives. Customer intimacy is a major business initiative for Westinghouse and supports the company's "Customer 1st" strategic direction.
"After evaluating five service provider products, we selected Saba's Centra Live for eMeetings because we felt it provided a superior business model and the highest value-to-cost ranking," said Dave Aynardi, director, Information Technology, Westinghouse Electric. "We also believe Centra will provide all the critical communications capabilities we require to offer a rich eMeeting experience for our users."
All Westinghouse employees will be able to use the Centra hosted service and the company plans to make Centra Live for eMeetings the standard within its project management tool suite. Most core functional business areas across the company, such as project management, engineering and design, supply chain and human resources, will use the Centra eMeeting service to communicate internally and externally.
The Centra Live from Saba suite enables globally dispersed employees, students, partners, customers, prospects and vendors to learn, interact and exchange knowledge online in real time. Centra Live provides advanced desktop integration for high end-user adoption, capabilities that address business processes across a variety of departments, and advanced system architecture to support global enterprise deployments. The solutions serve a wide range of organizational needs including hands-on application training, new product roll-outs, formal academic course work, informational webinars and ad-hoc meetings.
About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) ) is the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, using a people-centric approach to increase productivity and performance. As a trusted partner, Saba enables the Aligned EnterpriseT for over 1,100 customers in 150 countries by providing an integrated people management system to continuously align goals, develop people, improve collaboration and increase visibility into organizational performance.
Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Scotiabank, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, Wyndham International, Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters Laboratories, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.
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, 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.
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