Saba HCM Solutions Form Core of Hitachi’s Human Resources Outsourcing Service Offerings

Redwood Shores, Calif.  – April4, 2007– Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, today announced that Hitachi Ltd., a leading global electronics company, will utilize the Saba Enterprise suite as the HCM platform for its outsourced HR offering to the Japanese market. Saba and Hitachi will also work together to accelerate the adoption of learning, performance, and talent management in Japan.

The Saba Enterprise suite is Saba’s integrated people management solutions that help organizations continuously align goals, develop people, improve collaboration and increase visibility into organizational performance.

Hitachi’s recently-launched dedicated HCM services organization will resell Saba’s world-class HCM solutions as part of its enterprise-class software offerings and provide consulting services to help organizations in Japan gain immediate value and rapid return on investment (ROI) for their HCM initiatives.  

“We are pleased to collaborate with Saba to offer the industry’s best integrated HCM solutions,” said Mitsuo Yamaguchi, Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi. “The alliance between Saba and Hitachi will offer substantial benefits to our customers by providing world-class learning, performance and talent management solutions to help them improve workforce performance.”

“Hitachi shares our vision for how enterprises can transform their performance through the implementation of strategic HCM solutions,” said Bobby Yazdani, CEO and chairman of Saba.  “We value this relationship with Hitachi and are committed to tightly integrating our solutions with Hitachi’s HCM offerings to best serve our customers and drive the adoption of HCM in global enterprises.”

Saba Enterprise
Saba Enterprise 5 is an integrated human capital management system that combines competency-driven learning, performance, and succession management with analytics and collaboration tools to help companies align their people with corporate objectives to optimize their performance and gain competitive advantage. With Saba Enterprise 5, companies can become an Aligned Enterprise™—an organization in which goals and objectives are aligned and communicated, performance expectations are clear and concise, and every employee is a strategic asset.

About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/ TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 356,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2005 (ended March 31, 2006) consolidated sales totaled 9,464 billion yen ($80.9 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.

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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