Saba Performance Suite
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Saba® Performance
To achieve your organizational goals, it is critical that your entire team stays focused on your business strategies.
Saba® Performance helps you improve organizational performance by aligning individual employee and group productivity with overall corporate goals and objectives.
Saba Performance gives you real-time views into your organization's progress against goals, allowing you to easily make adjustments to respond to changing requirements. With Saba Performance, you can disseminate goals and objectives across both traditional and cross-functional organizational hierarchies, and even across organizational boundaries. Unique "Saba Where You Work" technology embeds performance management tasks as a seamless part of your people's daily work activities.
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Ensure the workforce is focused on the right activities |
- Saba’s innovative “My Success Plan” can be used to prioritize key goals and competencies, as well as targeted learning when used in conjunction with Saba Learning
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| Provides visibility into performance execution |
- Configurable plan approval or acknowledgement notifications keep performance expectations clear
- “Saba Where You Work" interactive emails enable goal progress reporting via e-mail
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Proactively drive performance improvement |
- Analyze performance and competency gaps, and generate a plan of action
- Link goals and objectives directly to required skills and activities
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Saba® Performance Reviews
The ability to make and support personnel decisions can be severely hampered by the lack of consistent and automated performance measurement processes.
Saba® Performance Reviews establishes a strategic, relevant performance review process. Multiple raters can provide feedback on individualized goals and competencies to improve the speed, quality and relevance of performance feedback.
Consistent measurement ensures accurate identification of top performers.
Managers and employees can regularly track goal achievement and make performance journal entries throughout the year so that there is a clear record of performance information available at review time. Human resources and organizational development professionals save time via bulk review assignment and easy monitoring of progress, status and ratings distribution.
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Feature |
| Reduce the risks and cost associated with a manual review process |
- On-time reviews eliminate expensive retro pay; automated notifications and manager writing tools enable more timely feedback
- Clearly documented and well-supported performance results reduce risk
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| Increase employee engagement and satisfaction through relevant performance feedback |
- Personalized reviews based on clear performance expectations improve relevance
- Multi-rater feedback lessens the risk of bias
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| Improve the quality and consistency of performance measurement across the organization |
- Embedded reporting allows easy monitoring of review progress, status and ratings distribution
- Extensible 9-box analysis tool provides additional insight
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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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Feature |
| 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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Feature |
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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One Platform,
One Unified Solution
The Saba Performance 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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