Saba Unveils Industry’s First Unified People Management Platform

State of the Art Platform to Help Organizations Unify, Engage, Mobilize, and Foster Collaboration across Customers, Partners, and Employees

People 2009 — Saba Summit

San Francisco—October 20, 2009—With economic issues still dominating business concerns, organizations are looking to more quickly and effectively unify, engage, and mobilize their people. Without broad and complete visibility and insight into the people assets across an organization’s value chain, there is an inability to easily and quickly respond to continuously changing business conditions.

To help companies address these challenges, Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, is delivering a major breakthrough in its next release of the Saba platform. Saba 5.5 is designed to help organizations actively manage change by unifying, engaging, and mobilizing their people assets and will represent the most complete people management platform to date. 

“With a people-based strategy enabled by Saba, organizations and their entire value chain can operate based on shared goals that are understood and aligned, and can help ensure the right people are engaged in the right places at the right time,” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba. “We know that superior people management is essential for organizational success, and we have collaborated closely with hundreds of our global customers to significantly increase the value of our unified people management platform.”

Saba’s Unified People Management Platform
New advances across people management, collaboration, and social networking in Saba’s Unified People Management Platform are designed to transform how companies meet today's people challenges. Saba enables organizations of all types and sizes to drive better business results through features such as: 

• Saba Mobile - mobile services that increase employee efficiency by enabling people to continuously collaborate and learn using their mobile device, no matter where they are.
• Real-time performance feedback – allowing anyone in the organization to submit constant informal feedback that flows directly into the formal performance review process.
• Saba Compensation – unifying rewards management to allow managers to make compensation decisions based on access to the most comprehensive set of people information.
• Best Business Practices – best practice workflows and wizard-based processes that deliver unprecedented ease of use and people process efficiencies across the value chain.

With an updated, engaging, and easy-to-use Web 2.0 user interface, Saba is visually unifying information so that, whether a user is trying to create a succession pool, start a performance review, or manage a team of employees, the view of the employee information is the same. Users at all levels will be able to make better decisions with more complete and consistent people intelligence. 

Saba 5.5 will drastically improve the ability to access and analyze information on people across the entire value chain through its unified information architecture. Saba 5.5 is designed to be the single platform for people management processes across the complete career lifecycle, including support for learning, performance, development, succession, workforce planning, career planning, mobility, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. 

Availability
Saba Enterprise 5.5 is already available to select customers, and will be available to all customers by October 31.

For more information, please visit www.saba.com/products.

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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