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Saba Learning: The Industry’s Leading Enterprise Learning Management System
 Organizations that take a disciplined and strategic approach to managing learning and development for both employees and the extended enterprise of contractors, partners, suppliers, and customers get people who perform their best at driving up customer value and financial results.
Saba Learning, the core module in the Saba Learning Suite, brings together best-in-class capabilities to address a variety of enterprise learning needs. It seamlessly supports blended learning—including instructor-led classroom training, self-paced Web-based training, virtual classes, and more—so that you can deliver learning by the most effective means of retention and distribution. With built-in best practices gained from working with more than 1,400 customers, Saba Learning delivers the best ownership experience to organizations of all sizes.
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Accelerate time-to-competence and productivity, increase learning effectiveness
Capture knowledge immediately as it is shared
Streamline and automate administration |
- Seamless blended learning—formal and informal
- Unified search
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Save time for learners
Increase learning effectiveness |
- “Smart” ordering for blended learning curricula
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Give learners immediate access to the learning they need
Make life easier for administrators |
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Create enterprise-wide efficiencies |
- Multi-division support and governance
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Additional Information
> Datasheet: Saba Learning
> Request more information about Saba Learning Suite
> Views demos of Saba Learning
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Saba Certification Management
Saba Certification Management gives you the power and visibility you need to manage regulatory compliance or to take full advantage of your customer and channel relationships through comprehensive certification programs. Saba Certification Management supports the most complex certifications while offering extensive configuration options and business rules to support the exact processes required without customization.
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Features |
Lower certification administration costs |
Intuitive wizards let you create and manage the most complex certifications |
Save time for learners requiring certification |
Graphical views and “smart” ordering helps learners understand certification requirements and make progress |
Easier adherence to regulatory requirements |
Configurable business rules to determine how learning is credited to certifications |
Allow learners to take advantage of the delivery mode that best fits their learning style |
Automatic equivalency management across different modes of course delivery |
Greater administrative efficiency |
Course and certification versioning |
Additional Information
> Datasheet: Saba Certification Management
> View a Certification Demo
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For-Profit Customer Education
Saba Learning Suite enables your organization to meet its revenue and customer loyalty goals. It offers the most comprehensive capabilities available for marketing and selling learning to best serve your customers. Extensive configurability and a world-class architecture gives customer education initiatives the best ownership experience and a user experience that they can confidently present to their valuable customers.
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Reach more customers with customer education programs and meet contractual obligations |
A variety of flexible pricing models |
Drive incremental revenue from your customer base |
Email marketing campaigns |
Make learning purchases simple and convenient for buyers |
Multiple payment methods, including real-time credit card processing and purchase orders |
Sell more learning by bundling it with core product offerings |
Pre-paid training agreements |
Additional Information
> Datasheet: Saba Learning Commerce
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Learning Content Management with Saba Content Management
Saba Content Management helps organizations capture, consolidate, organize, manage, and reuse learning content developed and stored in the many silos across an organization. With Saba Content Management, you can realize substantial cost and productivity efficiencies while instilling better skills and knowledge in your people. Saba Content Management is the industry’s first learning content management system truly designed for managing and delivering content on an enterprise scale.
Saba Learning and Saba Content Management are built on an open, standards–based architecture designed to facilitate integration with a variety of content that our customers develop or purchase, and with multiple content authoring environments. Saba Learning supports industry content standards such as AICC and SCORM. It also offers a powerful Content Integration Framework (CIF) to extend the application’s interoperability beyond what is possible with AICC or SCORM.
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| Capture content created across the enterprise |
Meta-repository to consolidate content. Easy-to-use contribution interface for subject matter experts |
| Increase content reuse |
Intelligent support for learning objects, assets, templates, question pools, and all popular file types |
| Make content more effective, accurate, and consistent |
Full content lifecycle support for project teams |
| Ensure content interoperability |
Full AICC and SCORM support |
| Broaden the reach of learning content |
Offline delivery environment for any SCORM content |
Additional Information
> Datasheet: Saba Content Management
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Saba Anywhere: Complete your training anywhere, anytime, regardless of network connectivity
Saba Anywhere is a mobile platform that lets people take their learning on the go. Users can now download, view, and interact with standards-based courseware and knowledge content anywhere, anytime, regardless of network connectivity. More than just an offline player, this Eclipse-based platform is a comprehensive desktop framework for enables rich interactivity throughout the learning experience, user authentication and encryption for secure access to content and tracking of learning progress, and an intuitive user experience for rapid user adoption and success.
Saba Anywhere provides a seamless interface to Saba Learning for automated results tracking, as well as flexible content consumption including rich, multimedia content. Highly secure and easy to use, Saba Anywhere meets the needs of people who are mobile and on the go, or in environments with bandwidth constraints.
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| Learning content is available anywhere, anytime |
Easy and rapid download of content, including individual and bulk content modules, and ability to consume content whether connected or disconnected from corporate network or the Internet |
| Standards-based for maximum content interoperability and reusability |
Saba Anywhere supports content that conforms to SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 (2nd and 3rd ed.) standards. |
| The familiar user interface enables rapid adoption |
Saba Anywhere’s user interface is similar to that of Saba Learning, providing a seamless learning environment whether online or offline. The powerful Eclipse-based framework provides an embedded browser for intuitive content playback. |
| Take training online or offline |
Support for partial download of content enabling content to be started offline or online and finished in offline or online mode. Saba Anywhere also notifies the user when offline consumption is in progress and results have not been synchronized, ensuring data integrity. |
| No tracking is ever lost |
Run time tracking and other interactivity is captured and stored until update to Saba Learning is confirmed. Synchronization can be manual or automated. |
| Increase organizational agility |
In addition to single-user scenarios, multiple users can access learning from a single machine/workstation, and all personal account progress and tracking is stored separately for each user. |
| Supports multiple users in the field |
Multiple users can use a single machine/workstation with personal account progress and tracking stored separately for each user. |
| Secure and authorized access to content |
Encryption scheme in Saba Anywhere means tracking data cannot be compromised; automated user authentication between Saba Anywhere and Saba Enterprise prevents unauthorized content access and downloading. |
Additional Information
> Datasheet: Saba Anywhere
> Press Release: Saba Delivers Breakthrough Mobility Capabilities to Its Collaborative People Management Platform
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Saba Publisher: Content Authoring for Instructional Designers and Subject Matter Experts
Saba Publisher, available in Standard and Professional Editions, is a powerful tool for sharing knowledge across the enterprise, ensuring that the right information gets into the hands of the people who need it most. With Saba Publisher, instructional designers and subject matter experts alike take control of their content. Its user-friendly interface allows anyone to quickly and easily create professionally designed, media-rich content using drag-and-drop methods to incorporate existing text, media, and graphics files.
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| Subject matter experts can quickly create learning content themselves, accelerating knowledge sharing |
Programming-free, drag-and-drop authoring and publishing |
| Create more engaging experiences for learners |
Built-in simulation tools |
Save time and money
Improve content accuracy and consistency |
Tight integration with Saba Content Management enables collaborative content development and multi-purpose content creation |
| Verify your learners’ mastery and knowledge retention |
Extensive test-building capabilities |
Additional Information
> Datasheet: Saba Publisher Professional Edition
> View a Content demo
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Saba Live: Extend the Value of Formal Learning Initiatives
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that 70 percent of learning occurs through informal interactions. Is your organization getting the full benefit of these interactions?
Saba Live represents the next evolution of blended learning – an environment where learners have all of the tools they need to learn and collaborate in one place. In this new paradigm, learners will participate in the learning process by providing and sharing information with each other, and through their collective efforts, they will make that information increasingly useful and relevant to each other. Learners get the answers they need faster, driving significantly higher productivity. And your organization gets exponential value by capturing information that would otherwise be lost and making it available for others to use.
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Features |
| Tap into the power of peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange |
- Rich people profiles that facilitate more meaningful interactions
- Form connections to trusted advisors throughout the enterprise
- Robust search capabilities, aggregating formal and informal knowledge assets and experts
- Embedded real-time collaboration, including presence and Web conferencing
- Communities of practice automatically created around courses, competencies, certifications, and more
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| Eliminate barriers to capturing information so that it does not leave your organization |
- Comprehensive set of social software tools: blogs, wikis, discussion boards, social network management
- Easy-to-use tools for knowledge contribution
- One-click publishing of Saba Centra recordings
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| Validate your experts by tapping into the information that’s already available through certification programs and competency frameworks |
- Unified user profile that incorporates information captured from job roles, certification programs, competency frameworks, and more
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| Improve ROI for learning by letting your employees, customers, and partners help you identify the most relevant and effective learning programs |
- Ratings, rankings, tagging, and flagging
- Visibility into the community-assessed value of all learning assets
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Additional Information
> Learn more about Saba Live
> Whitepaper: Enterprise Social Networking
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Career & Competency Management Capabilities
Effective career development and talent planning cannot be done in a vacuum; it requires an understanding of the key skills and competencies your entire workforce possesses.
The Saba Foundation provides a unified platform to deliver key people management capabilities, such as competency management, career management, development planning, and job and role definition, across the Saba Learning Suite and Saba Performance Suite.
These capabilities provide a common language to discuss and measure talent consistently. With Saba’s competency management capabilities, your organization can define the key skills and capabilities required of its workforce and communicate these to individuals and teams. You can also enable effective career planning via the ability to designate career interests on individual profiles and perform gap analyses against these interests. Finally, fulfill the requirements, skills gaps, and interests through Saba Learning, Saba Collaboration, and Saba Centra.
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| Increase employee engagement and retention |
- Provide individuals with designated career paths
- Enable individuals to view the job requirements of various positions, and self-select career interests
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| Grow talent faster with proactive development recommendations |
- Enable individuals and managers to analyze competency gaps and access learning recommendations specifically designed to fill those gaps
- Perform gap analysis on both current positions and potential positions
- Identify and contact competency experts for knowledge transfer and mentoring
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| Consistently measure competency proficiency |
- Perform competency-based or questionnaire-based assessments to determine proficiency in key skills and competencies
- Ensure consistent, balanced feedback with self, manager, or multi-rater (360 degree) assessments
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| Enable faster deployment of new performance, development or talent processes |
- Quickly populate in-house developed or third-party competency content
- Deploy Saba’s integrated competency content library to kick-start competency management
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| Save Time in Course and Competency Administration |
- Automatically assign and track a set of competencies to a person or a large set of people based on their roles, jobs, career interests, hire date, or numerous other attributes
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Additional Information
> Datasheet: Talent Management
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