| Saba Learning Suite
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Saba Learning
Organizations that take a disciplined and strategic approach to managing learning and development across employees and the extended enterprise of contractors, partners, suppliers and customers get people who perform at their best.
Saba Learning, the core module in the Saba Learning Suite, brings together best-in-class capabilities to address a wide variety of enterprise learning needs. It seamlessly supports blended learning—including instructor-led classroom training, self-paced Web-based training, real time, virtual classes, and more—so that you can deliver learning by the means that will reach your learners most effectively. With built-in best practices gained from working with more than 1,100 customers, Saba Learning delivers the best ownership experience to organizations large and small.
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- Accelerate time-to-competence
- Increase learning effectiveness
- Capture knowledge immediately as it is shared
- Streamline administration
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Seamless blended learning—formal and informal |
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“Smart” ordering for blended learning curricula |
- Give learners immediate access to the learning they need to be successful
- Make life easier for administrators
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Prescriptive learning |
- Create enterprise-wide efficiencies
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Multi-division support and governance |
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Access to Saba from other applications where learners work |
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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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- Lower administration costs
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Intuitive wizards to create and manage the most complex certifications |
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Graphical views and “smart” ordering to help learners understand certification requirements and make progress |
- Easier adherence to regulatory requirements
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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
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Automatic equivalency management across different modes of course delivery |
- Greater administrative efficiency
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Course and certification versioning |
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Saba Learning Commerce
Saba Learning Commerce enables your organization 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 organizations 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 program
- Meet contractual obligations
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Flexible pricing models |
- Drive incremental revenue from your customer base
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Email marketing campaigns |
- Make learning purchases simple and convenient for buyers
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Multiple payment methods, including real-time credit-card processing and purchase orders |
- Sell more learning by bundling it with core product offerings
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Pre-paid training agreements |
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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.
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- Capture content created across the enterprise
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Meta-repository to consolidate content |
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Intelligent support for learning objects, assets, templates, question pools and all popular file types |
- Make content more effective, accurate and consistent
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Full content lifecycle support for project teams |
- Ensure content interoperability
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Full AICC and SCORM support |
- Broaden the reach of learning content
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Offline delivery environment for any SCORM content |
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Saba Publisher Professional Edition
Saba® Publisher Professional Edition 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 Professional Edition, 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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Features |
- Subject matter experts can quickly create learning content themselves, accelerating knowledge sharing
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Programming-free, drag and drop authoring and publishing |
- Create more engaging experiences for learners
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Built-in simulation tools |
- Save time and money
- Improve content accuracy and consistency
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Tight integration with Saba Content Management enables collaborative content development and multi-purpose content creation |
- Verify your learners’ mastery and knowledge retention
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Extensive test-building capabilities |
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Saba Centra
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Saba® Collaboration
Collaboration of individuals and teams is critical to the realization of organizational performance goals. Saba® Collaboration provides enterprise-wide learning, performance and talent management solutions with a highly scalable, Web-based collaboration system that facilitates knowledge transfer and high-impact informal learning between individuals, mentors and subject matter experts.
A module of Saba Learning, Saba Performance, Saba Talent, and Saba Compensation Suites, Saba Collaboration helps organizations to institutionalize collaboration and knowledge sharing as a fundamental part of how people work with each other.
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| Capture critical knowledge from subject matter experts |
- Communities of practice organized by areas of interest, job types, roles, certifications, and competencies
- Employee publishing and search across all document types, including Saba Centra recordings
- Expert location by community, competency, FAQ or knowledge base search
- Blogging shares and builds knowledge and community
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| Foster informal learning and mentoring |
- Access to wikis, chat and threaded discussions to find knowledge
- Private communities give people an online space to interact with mentors
- Instant launch of Saba Centra sessions provides quick interaction with mentors and experts, with automatic publishing of relevant material to Saba Knowledge Base
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| Enhance workforce effectiveness and retention |
- When used as part of the Saba Performance Suite, initiative teams share goals and gain visibility into goal progress
- Automatic community assignment based on roles, certifications, or goals
- Wiki collaboration, community chat, and threaded discussions allow employees to work together more effectively
- Blogging capabilities enable experts to share and be recognized for their knowledge
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Proactively develop and prepare bench strength |
- Enable distance knowledge transfer and mentoring
- Augment succession planning efforts through collaboration or mentoring with individuals nearing retirement
- Blogging, Wikis, Communities, Discussions and Saba Centra sessions with experts prepare future leaders
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Saba’s Wiki capability makes it easy to capture and search across group-published knowledge:
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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 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 Saba Learning Suite, Saba Performance Suite and Saba Talent Suite.
These capabilities provide a common currency to discuss and measure talent consistently. With Saba’s competency management capabilities, organizations are able to define the key skills and capabilities required of the workforce, and communicate these requirements to individuals and teams. Effective career planning is enabled via the ability to designate career interests on individual profiles and perform gap analyses against these interests.
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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 (360º) assessments
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Enable faster deployment of new performance, development or talent processes |
- Quickly populate in-house developed or 3rd party competency content via Saba’s import capabilities
- Utilize the option to deploy Saba’s integrated competency content library to kick-start competency management efforts
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| Additional Features |
Robust certification management
- Reduce compliance costs and risks
- Decrease the time and expense required to sell products and services
- Reduce the risk inherent to third party distribution
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Prescriptive Learning
- Automatically assign and track a set of learning activities to a person or a large set of people based on their roles, jobs, hire date or numerous other attributes
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Customer Education
- Drive new revenues by marketing and selling learning
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“Saba Where You Work”
- Access and manage learning activities from a variety of other applications and interfaces, including Microsoft Outlook and enterprise portals
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Learning 2.0
Social, Informal, Effective |
Learn how the effectiveness of employee education can be improved using Web 2.0 tools |
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One Platform,
One Unified Solution
The Saba Learning Suite is built on the same platform shared by all Saba products. This makes it easier to develop a comprehensive HCM solution with...
• a seamless user experience
• lower implementation costs
• simplified reporting
> Download the Saba Enterprise Architecture Datasheet |
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