Saba Centra Suite
Overview
The Saba Centra Suite includes capabilities for:
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Saba Centra for an Engaging and Intuitive Virtual Classroom
Saba Centra for Virtual Classes replicates the discourse and discussion of a typical classroom with a complete set of features for highly interactive and effective group learning. It brings together voice, video, data, and graphics in a structured online learning environment for up to 500 simultaneous users. Saba Centra’s scalable, secure, reliable architecture is the best solution for large, extended enterprise training and learning.
With Saba Centra, you can deliver highly effective blended learning programs that provide support for rich, varied session content, resulting in satisfaction, comprehension, and retention rates equal to in-person formal training. You can reach users anywhere — only a Web browser is required to attend. Support for 10 different languages enables participants to view their user interface in the language of their choice.
Saba Centra has built-in workflow and powerful event management capabilities that help you facilitate activities before and after an online class. The Web-based scheduling, registration, and enrollment allows you to automate pre-session set-up and post-session follow-up, record event playbacks, and track performance with detailed reports of enrollment, attendance, and test results.
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Fast learner adoption across the enterprise with minimal demands on helpdesk and IT |
- An intuitive and engaging virtual class interface with self-service set-up wizards and firewall-friendly access
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Measure learning results |
- Registration and attendance reporting to track and report on enrollment, session feedback, and attendance data.
- Extensive evaluation capabilities.
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Maximize learning investment and optimize learning experience with rich, blended learning sessions |
- Interactivity tools, application sharing, multiple presenters, breakout rooms and labs for collaborative and hands-on learning
- Engaging virtual lab technology powered by Surgient
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Record and extend the value and return of real-time learning |
- Fully unified conferencing for “live” learning discussions; record and playback sessions for on-demand learning
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Leverage investment in existing technologies |
- Integrates with broad range of desktop applications, Web services architectures, LMSs/CMSs, and portal applications
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Easily and effectively store and manage recordings |
- Integration with the Knowledge Center enables users to store, search, manage, and deliver information and resources from one centralized location
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Improve globally integrated learning |
- Unified solution with Saba Centra and Saba Learning centralizes reporting and automates administration of virtual sessions
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Saba Centra for eMeetings
Saba Centra for eMeetings helps people get together across the building or around the globe — live, in real time — to share knowledge and information. You have all the advantages of in-person meetings without the expense and hassle of getting to them. As a result, you’re able to have highly productive, secure meetings, product demos, and partner briefings all from the privacy of your office.
Saba Centra for eMeetings replicates the dynamic interaction of on-site meetings, using a rich set of online tools and capabilities. Features include integrated audio and video conferencing, application sharing with mark-up, PowerPoint slides with animation, real-time feedback, whiteboards, instant surveys, file transfer, and text chat.
Saba Centra allows customers to use any teleconference provider. This is valuable because other eMeeting providers require customers to use for one specific teleconference solution in order to record a meeting with integrated audio. With Saba Centra, customers can shop for the teleconference provider that offers the biggest cost savings and still have the audio integrated for recordings.
With just a Web browser, users can initiate a meeting by simply clicking on the Saba Centra icon on their desktop, IM modules, or directly from today’s most popular applications, including Microsoft Office. Personal time zone settings ensure attendees always see event details in their local time.
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Features |
Reduce or eliminate teleconferencing costs |
- Choose free, integrated, full-duplex voice-over-IP conferencing or your own teleconferencing service. Fully unified conferencing for your choice of VoIP or teleconferencing, and mixed audio lets participants attend using either option.
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Ease of use with minimal demands on helpdesk and IT |
- Intuitive interface for creating meetings and inviting participants
- Schedule meetings with standard desktop applications like Microsoft Outlook
- Collaborate on spreadsheets and other documents.
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Dynamic, interactive collaboration equal to that of in-person meetings |
- Interactivity tools – polling, chat, surveys, laughter/applause – combined with rich multi-media
- Integration of multi-point video enriches “live” meetings
- Mark-up slides and interactive whiteboards; capture and save notes for later review
- Just-in-time PowerPoint import
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Capture more value from meetings by instantly turning them into informal learning |
- One-click publishing of a Saba Centra recording to the Saba Knowledge Base, so that a small session with a subject matter expert can immediately be made available to many other people who can benefit from it.
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Ease of meeting management and follow-up |
- Automated email management to create, schedule and confirm meetings; automatically email out meeting minutes and link to meeting recording
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Collaborate in real time to facilitate formal HCM processes |
- Seamless integration with Saba Enterprise launches instant meetings for real-time collaboration within formal HCM processes; for example to supplement formal learning or during a performance review
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Saba Centra for Web Seminars
Saba Centra for Web seminars combines voice, video, data, and graphics in a structured, highly engaging online environment that supports large groups – up to 1,000 simultaneous attendees. Centra provides a complete solution for start-to-finish management, eliminating complex planning and reducing the time and expense entailed in hosting large, on-site events.
You are able to manage all aspects of the event from registration and reminders, to customer follow-up, to recordings made available for those who’ve missed the event, or for ongoing marketing and even greater reach. Participants can playback streaming content or download it for offline playback.
Saba Centra enables you to captivate and educate large audiences with online seminars and lectures, easily integrating dynamic presentations and powerful multimedia. With live application demos, streaming video and Flash, support for multi-presenters, ad-hoc audience polling, and moderated chat, you’re able to deliver high-impact events.
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Features |
Reach, capture, and profile your high-value audience of prospects, customers, partners, and employees to ensure a successful event |
- Branded event pages
- Custom registration and single-click attend.
- Automated email management, custom registration, and lead source tracking
- Customer surveys and localization with 10 support languages.
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Ease of use for presenters and attendees |
- Intuitive user interface requires no end-user training
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Ease of managing interactive and collaborative seminars — follow-up actions are automatically captured throughout the event |
- Interactivity tools — polling, chat, surveys, laughter/applause, Web touring — combined with rich multimedia
- Integration of multi-point video enriches “live” meetings
- Mark-up slides and interactive whiteboards; capture and save notes for later review
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Reduce or eliminate teleconferencing costs: choose free, integrated, full-duplex voice-over-IP conferencing or your own teleconferencing service |
- Fully unified conferencing for your choice of VoIP or teleconferencing and mixed audio lets participants attend using either option. Universal connectivity – attendees need only 28.8 kbps connection.
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Keep in touch with Web seminar participants — nurture and grow their interest in your company and your products |
- Customer email follow-up
- Registration and attendance reporting; event recordings with registration;
- Data export; and custom online evaluation forms.
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Seamless Learning with Saba Learning and Saba Centra
Saba Centra tightly integrates Saba Learning. Learning customers will attain the following benefits that are unique to the Saba Learning Suite:
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Save time and optimize productivity on training administration |
- Class creation in Saba Learning feeds to Saba Centra event and Saba Centra account creation is automated
- Scheduling virtual trainings is automated
- Automated distribution of electronic learning materials
- Seamless enrollment in Saba Learning automatically passes to Saba Centra
- Automatic cancellations from Saba Learning to Saba Centra
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Maximize control of training objectives and activities with centralized LMS and Saba Centra functionality |
- Reporting functionality centralized
- Notifications from Saba can be customized for virtual events
- Launch/join in Saba for instructors and students
- Assigned instructor resources pass to Saba Centra as the Presenter
- Schedulers coordinate all resources in one system
- No customization required
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Turn Tactical Web Conferencing Into Strategic Collaboration with Saba Social
Web conferencing tools have typically operated in a meeting-centric model, where knowledge is shared at a specific time and rarely reaches any further than the meeting participants. Working in conjunction with Saba Centra, Saba Social introduces a new paradigm for Web conferencing. This combined enterprise social networking solution provides Web conferencing users with a full context of meeting participants’ knowledge and interests, their separate and shared roles, and their experience. And, it extends the value of Web conferencing sessions by making recorded sessions highly accessible and seamlessly moving real-time conversations into an asynchronous format.
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Features |
Extend the value of your Web conferencing experience |
- Instant access to Web conferencing from areas where your people already interact online
- Move conversations from a Web conferencing session into an asynchronous format with team spaces and communities of practice
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Improve meeting productivity |
- Full access to a rich personal profiles — skills, job experience, education, and interests — of all meeting attendees
- Find experts and bring them into a meeting on-the-fly
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Build powerful social networks dynamically by creating meaningful and lasting connections between people during sessions and afterward |
- Form connections to trusted advisors throughout the enterprise
- Meet instantly with presence detection and convenient access to Saba Centra functionality
- Comprehensive set of social software tools: blogs, wikis, discussion boards, social network management
- Share information in public and private communities
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Get more value from Web conferencing by enabling users to quickly and easily create, discover, rate, and share recordings |
- One-click publishing of Saba Centra recordings to a searchable knowledge repository
- Extensive sorting and filtering of search results
- Ratings, rankings, tagging, and flagging of Saba Centra recordings
- Visibility into the community-assessed value of all knowledge assets
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Saba Centra Third-Party Integration
Extend the value of your Saba Centra solution with third-party product and service integration. Saba Centra's extensive partnerships provide seamless integration with your enterprise systems to:
- Reduce system administration costs
- Further leverage your IT investments
- Deliver a higher ROI
Leverage your investment in existing technologies with Saba Centra’s tight integration with desktop and enterprise applications, databases, and infrastructure, such as Microsoft Outlook, LDAP/AD, enterprise portals, SiteMinder, NTLM, and Cisco CDN.
Desktop Applications |
Envoke Instant Messaging
Microsoft Windows Desktop
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Office Powerpoint
Microsoft Office Project
Microsoft Office Visio
Microsoft Office Word
MSN Instant Messenger
Microsoft Windows Messenger |
Enterprise Applications |
Oracle iLearning
SAP AG - Learning Solutions (LSO) |
Learning Management Systems |
Blackboard Learning System
Generation 21 Learning Systems
Training Partner by GeoMetrix
KnowledgePlanet
Pathlore
Plateau
Saba Learning
SumTotal Systems
TEDS Learning Management System
WBT Systems TopClass |
Security Applications |
Microsoft NTLM
Netegrity Siteminder |
Virtual Labs |
Surgient |
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Saba Centra Demo
View a comprehensive online demo on the benefits and capabilities of Saba Centra, Knowledge Center, and associated professional services.
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