REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management and collaboration software and services provider, today announced that it has been included in the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace.¹

Saba was one of the first vendors to combine people management with social software, with the introduction of Saba Collaboration in 2005 and the acquisition of Centra (now Saba Centra) in 2006.

"We recognized long ago that social tools like wikis and blogs and real-time collaboration had an important role in knowledge-sharing and finding expertise across networks of employees, customers, and partners," said Saba Chairman and CEO Bobby Yazdani. “We are very pleased to be recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace and believe it shows that Saba is continuing to deliver innovative and effective solutions for our customers as part of Saba's people management vision.”

Saba’s strength in unified people management and collaboration solutions, combined with innovative technology and unmatched global capability, delivered on premise or on demand, has enabled the company to serve as the people management standard for many leading enterprises worldwide. Saba customers that have demonstrated innovation in their use of social software include the Legal & General Group, who, with Saba, received an "Excellence in Social Networks" Learning in Practice Award from Chief Learning Officer Magazine earlier this year, and the Stanford University Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), which runs an online high school program using Saba Centra. Saba Centra was selected by Stanford EPGY based on its robust learning features, intuitive user interface, interactivity tools, and reliability.

About Saba Centra

Saba Centra is an industry-leading web conferencing and collaboration solution that enables employees, customers and partners to learn, interact and exchange knowledge online, in real time. The latest version increases the value of web conferencing by making video-based, graphical and text-based session content easy to capture and share across the enterprise. Saba Centra's capabilities for presenters and participants enable rich virtual classroom and meeting interaction.

About Saba Collaboration

Saba Collaboration is a highly scalable, web-based collaboration system that facilitates knowledge transfer and high impact informal learning between individuals and subject matter experts. The offering helps organizations incorporate collaboration as a fundamental part of how people work with each other. With Saba Collaboration organizations can:

• Build communities of practice tied to interests, key initiatives, roles, or learning priorities;
• Extend the value of learning initiatives by capturing the estimated 70% of learning that happens informally;
• Allow connections to experts and mentors;
• Disseminate best practices across the organization;
• Share information across team members in strategic initiatives;
• Build skills and mentoring as part of talent development or succession management strategies;
• Allow asynchronous collaboration in conjunction with web conferencing and instant messaging.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Saba

Founded in 1997, Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier global provider of people management 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 people management 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; Daimler; Dell; Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; EDS, an HP company; EMC Corporation; 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.

SABA, the Saba logo, Saba Centra and the marks relating to Saba products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

¹ Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace”, Nikos Drakos, Carol Rozwell, Anthony Bradley, Jeffrey Mann, 22 October 2009

for Saba
Emma Rosen, +1-415-385-2843
emma@activapr.com