Saba Centra 7.6 Available Now
Saba Centra Makes it Easy for People to Capture and Share Information Anytime, Anywhere to Support Informal Learning and Collaboration Across an Organization
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—March 11, 2008—Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced the general availability of the next generation of its industry-leading Web conferencing and collaboration solution, Saba Centra 7.6. This new release enables community-based content creation with an innovative recording studio, extends online learning effectiveness with more accessible hands-on training and drives usage of Web conferencing and collaboration through integration with popular business applications.
“By continuing to incorporate Web2.0 collaboration within Saba Centra, we are pleased to deliver a dynamic, easy-to-use solution that enables employees to collaborate and contribute to organizational knowledge,” said Amar Dhaliwal, senior vice president, product operations group at Saba. “As our customers move toward unifying formal and informal learning processes, Saba is focused on delivering collaboration solutions that enable organizations to capture impromptu knowledge sharing and use that to accelerate learning effectiveness to improve business performance.”
New in Saba Centra 7.6
The new features in Saba Centra enable rapid knowledge transfer and help ensure that knowledge shared—formally, informally or on-demand by an individual—is captured and made available across an entire organization. By capturing knowledge-transfer as it happens, organizations will be able to enhance how they collaborate among globally distributed employees, customers and partners. New features in Saba Centra 7.6 include:
Saba Centra Recording Studio – Provides on-demand access to knowledge through an intuitive application that will enable subject matter experts and business users to quickly create, manage and publish professional-quality, rich media content online or offline.
Surgient Virtual Labs Extension – Provides hassle-free hands-on training through extended lab support from Surgient’s Virtual Training Lab Management System (VTMS). Enables users to access live enterprise applications for hands-on learning—removing the need to install and manage software on-site.
Business Application Integration – Provides access to Saba Centra from everyday business applications, making it easy to collaborate and share information directly from the desktop within the context of day-to-day work. Users can schedule and start real-time meetings from business applications including Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft Office 2007.
Enhanced Browser and OS Support – Provides support for Firefox 2.0 for the Mac and Microsoft Windows Vista that will enable anytime, anywhere access to Saba Centra.
Availability
These new features are available now in Saba Centra 7.6 as licensed software or OnDemand subscription. The solution offers broad language support, including English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and traditional and simplified Chinese.
About Saba
Founded in 1997, Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier global provider of strategic human capital management (HCM) software and services. Saba’s people management solutions are used by more than 1,200 organizations and over 17 million end users worldwide. Saba’s solutions increase organizational performance by aligning workforce goals with organizational strategy; developing, managing and rewarding their people; and improving collaboration.
Saba product offerings address all aspects of strategic HCM and are available both on-premise and OnDemand (www.saba.com/products). To ensure long-term customer success, our global services capabilities and partnerships provide strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.
Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel-Lucent, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, Caterpillar, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, Daimler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group, Kaiser Permanente, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Renault, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotiabank, Singapore Ministry of Finance, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, Tata Consultancy Services, 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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Alissa Vasilevskis
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avasilevskis@saba.com
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