Saba Wins Silver Award in "Excellence in Social Networks" Category of Chief Learning Officer Magazine's Learning in Practice Awards

Redwood Shores, Calif.—October 1, 2009—Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced that Chief Learning Officer Magazine has bestowed a Silver Learning in Practice Award for "Excellence in Social Networks" to the company.  The award was announced September 29 during a special ceremony at the fall 2009 Chief Learning Officer Symposium, held at the Broadmoor resort located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The Excellence in Social Networks Award recognizes providers that have deployed blogs, communities of practice, social networks, wikis and/or any other employee communication and collaboration platforms for a client in the past year.  Saba customer, Legal & General Group plc, one of the UK’s leading financial services companies, uses Saba’s Learning Suite and its collaboration tools to create thriving, informal communities of practice for the company’s more than 10,000 staff and business partners. 

In these informal learning communities, people have access to online wikis and threaded discussions on topics relevant to their jobs. The private communities have proved ideal for establishing "best practices" centers as well as for mentoring promising high-potential employees.

"We thank Chief Learning Officer Magazine for recognizing the emerging area of corporate social networks which we believe will continue to grow in importance for workforce management," said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba, "Legal & General and our great roster of Saba customers prove again and again that they are at the forefront of innovation in strategic people management and we are pleased to help them achieve their goals in this area."

Blending Formal and Informal Learning
Legal & General’s formalized learning programs are augmented by the collaboration capabilities available from Saba Learning.  The Saba-based communities of practice are being used in a variety of ways to improve group productivity. From attaching presentations prior to meetings to recording meeting minutes and creating action lists, Legal & General teams have discovered a range of innovative ways to collaborate with Saba Learning. 

“What’s really exciting is how these Saba-supported best practices centers have become living resources,” said Andy Wooler, HR Technology Manager at Legal & General. “Rather than providing people with static printed manuals, collaboration tools from Saba can be quickly and easily updated whenever people learn new or better ways of doing things.”

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 1,300 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 Alcatel-Lucent; Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ; BMW; Caterpillar; CEMEX; Cisco Systems; Daimler; Dell; Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; EDS, an HP company; EMC Corporation; FedEx Office; 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, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, U.S. Department of Treasury/Internal Revenue Service, 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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