Launches Saba Publisher Professional Edition 6.0 with Enhanced Simulation Capabilities and Interactive Features

BOSTON – September 26, 2006 — Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, today introduced at the Saba-Centra Summit, Saba Publisher Professional Edition 6.0, a powerful new solution for creating and assembling learning content to disseminate knowledge throughout the enterprise.

Saba Publisher Professional Edition enables both instructional designers and subject matter experts to create compelling online courses, interactive simulations, sophisticated assessments, and other types of training content, all without programming skills. With this new product, Saba has delivered a solution with a full suite of tools for creating and editing simulations and media objects such as animations, images, drawings, audio and video. These tools empower authors to create high-impact content quickly and easily, while reducing the reliance on the use of third-party software tools. Through tight integration across the Saba Learning Suite, Saba Publisher Professional Edition 6.0 provides organizations with seamless learning delivery and maximum content reuse.

In addition, the solution’s support for the Unicode character set allows content authors to create and publish e-learning content in virtually any language, enabling more consistency across the globe as well as greater productivity and reuse. Saba Publisher Professional Edition enables content to be published out to a variety of consumable formats, including SCORM, AICC, HTML, CD-ROM and single file executables.

“In today’s globalized, distributed workforce, organizations must find new ways to engage learners and drive adoption of e-learning,” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO, Saba. “Saba Publisher Professional Edition 6.0 just made this task easier by enabling course designers to create more compelling and interactive content that will engage users, promote more collaboration and accelerate e-learning usage throughout the enterprise.”

New Simulation Tools Enhance Learning
Saba Publisher Professional Edition 6.0 includes tools for creating compelling simulations that can dramatically enhance the learning value of courses by making them more interactive and experiential. These include:

• A screen camera that allows users to produce animated software simulations and application tutorials by recording screen activity from a Windows desktop


• A screen capture tool that enables users to crop, edit, and import screen shots quickly and easily


• Hot spot questions that present the learner with an image (such as a screen shot) and require the learner to perform the requested action by executing the proper click path

Enhanced Content Creation Tools Drive High-impact Content
A full suite of tools enables the creation and editing of media objects such as animations, images, drawings, audio, and video. The following tools empower authors to create high-impact content quickly and easily, while reducing reliance on the use of third-party packages:

• A built-in image editor lets users create new images and modify existing ones


• An animation wizard allows users to enliven their titles by creating custom animations


• The audio recorder and editor enable users to create and edit audio tracks for overdubbing videos, creating special effects, or producing general use recordings


• A video editor lets users play and edit videos in the Microsoft AVI video format, enabling them to crop out portions of an existing video, add sound effects to an existing video, merge multiple videos into a single presentation, or copy audio tracks out of an existing video


• With the shapes and lines designer, users can add various shapes, lines, and arrows to any content page within a title

Tight Integration with Saba Learning and Content Management Improves Collaboration
Saba Publisher Professional Edition 6.0 is tightly integrated with Saba Learning and Saba Content Management to better facilitate a collaborative authoring workflow for team-based content development and to enable seamless learning delivery. The solution makes it easier for authors to reuse content assets and reduces the time it takes to deploy completed content for both formal and informal learning initiatives. Saba Publisher 6.0 Professional Edition is the only content authoring solution that takes full advantage of the team development capabilities in Saba Content Management, fostering collaboration between instructional designers and subject matter experts and driving higher productivity and greater content reuse.

Saba Publisher Professional Edition 6.0 will be available in early October 2006.

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 Enterprise™ 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.

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