REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To meet the demands of today’s changing world of work, Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, today announced the availability of its next generation social enterprise platform, Saba People Cloud. The platform combines social, real-time and mobile technologies with modern people processes to allow organizations to engage, develop and inspire all the people they work with – co-workers, partners, suppliers and customers. By creating a more transparent, better connected and highly collaborative way of working, Saba is empowering an organizations most critical assets—its people—while enabling the social enterprise to be more agile, competitive and responsive to market demands.
“Email changed the way we work. Now we’re doing it again by putting people, not information, at the center of the organization,” said Bobby Yazdani, founder and CEO of Saba. “To truly transform the way people work, social collaboration technologies must replace disconnected hierarchies and silos. This is what we’ve accomplished with the Saba People Cloud, the industry’s first people-centric social enterprise platform delivered as a service.”
IDC predicts the emerging social platforms category, which includes enterprise social software products, will reach nearly $2 billion by 2014, for a compound annual growth rate of 38.2 percent over five years. Saba plans to take advantage of this rapid market growth by introducing the industry’s only social enterprise platform to have a truly unified enterprise people profile, which unifies the formal profile from a system of record such as a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and certified credentials from Learning Management and Talent Management workflows with the social, community powered, profile for a full view of expertise across the organization. Saba People Cloud introduces the industry’s first People Quotient (pQ) score, a ground-breaking technology that helps people measure and improve their influence, reputation and impact at work. Saba People Cloud is also the only unified platform with real-time chat and HD video for instant meetings that can be easily recorded and shared.
Key Differentiators:
- A People Profile for the Enterprise: Combines a formal and social profile with analytics, making the Saba People Cloud the only social enterprise platform that gives you complete visibility into an organizations entire people network.
- Scores an Individuals Impact on the Organization: First and only social enterprise platform to measure and improve individual impact at work with the pQ score, a ground-breaking patent-pending technology that helps people measure and improve influence, reputation and impact at work.
- Shows Influence in the Workplace: Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA) enables organizations to visualize relationships, influence and reputation in the entire people network.
- Unifies Real-time Collaboration: Seamlessly integrates high definition (HD) video meetings, chat and Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) with ‘1-click” publishing to social video channels.
- Extends Social Collaboration: Transforms the way people collaborate using social technologies with activity streams, groups, discussions, intelligent recommendations and ideas, with social engagement features that draw from the best of gamification, social dynamics and social rewards.
- Supports Modern People Processes: Supports modern people processes, such as social and formal learning, goals and objectives, and succession management.
- Enables New, Social Intranet: Delivers on the promise of a truly social, always up-to-date intranet for wiki-style collaboration and simple corporate communications.
- Powerful Unified Search: Powered by industry-leading search technologies, Saba’s unified search puts information discovery at your fingertips.
- Simplifies Goal and Task Management: Enables people to create a personal or organizational plan to align people and get work done.
- Real-time Sentiment Analysis: Allows people to put a finger on the pulse of the organization and understand employee engagement in real-time.
- Streamlines Document Management: Easy to upload, share, version and track analytics around content without all the costs, headaches and silos of a traditional content management system.
Key Benefits of Saba People Cloud:
Saba’s social enterprise platform helps the most innovative organizations in the world transform their business by enabling:
- Rapid innovation to increase revenue and decrease time-to-market
- Highly connected customer communities to increase customer insight
- Informed partner communities to accelerate channel pipeline
- A social intranet that's always relevant, engaging and inspiring
- Faster product development with direct feedback from customers
- A social meeting, webinar and classroom solution
- A modern learning solution that transforms social and formal learning
- A modern people solution that transforms traditional talent management
Open and Extensible Social Enterprise Platform:
- Saba People Cloud is an open, extensible, trusted and scalable platform that is built for the new world of work. It puts people, not information at the center of the enterprise architecture. It is the only social enterprise platform with the security and information architecture to model true private and public networks to help connect and collaborate with co-workers, partners, suppliers and customers.
- With an integration architecture that supports OpenSocial and Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Program Interfaces (APIs), Saba People Cloud can integrate data from enterprise systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Sharepoint, Lightweight Directory Active Protocol (LDAP), Active Directory (AD) and data warehouses. With a well defined set of APIs and services, Saba People Cloud provides an open and extensible development platform for the next generation of enterprise applications.
Supporting Quotes:
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"Businesses are looking for a way to integrate all their
communication, knowledge sharing, and collaboration systems. The Saba
People Cloud has the potential to connect the dots between all these
different forms of communication and truly redefine the way people
work."
--Josh Bersin, President and CEO of Bersin & Associates
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“The way most organizations are managed and run these days is out of
step with our times. Social enterprise platform technology offers the
possibility for organizations to be large but not bureaucratic,
focused but not myopic, disciplined but not disempowering, and most
importantly fit for the future and fit for human beings. At the
Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) we have experienced the
transformative effects of using Saba’s social platform to collaborate
globally to reinvent the future of management in a social community of
over 700 management experts and practitioners at
mix.sabapeoplecloud.com.”
--Professor Gary Hamel, cofounder of the Mangement Innovation eXchange (MIX) and world-renowned business author
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"The Saba People Cloud unifies vital business processes and
capabilities unlike anything else on the market. We started using it
recently because our firm will reap significant benefits from the
evolution it will drive in how we work. Our clients engage us to
benefit from our collective expertise. So for us, there's nothing more
essential than a platform that enables our people to continuously
connect, share, learn, and align with one another."
--Charlie Kauffunger, Founding Partner, The Educe Group
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“Disruptive emerging technologies that draw from the best in
gamification and social dynamics are transforming the traditional
definition of the social enterprise platform. Innovative vendors will
incorporate social analytics, including influence and reputation into
their overall social enterprise platforms.
--“R” Ray Wang, principal analyst and CEO at Constellation Research
Availability and Pricing
- Saba People Cloud is available now for organizations to experience the product via a free trial at http://www.sabapeoplecloud.com/.
Supporting Resources:
- Start now: www.sabapeoplecloud.com
- Follow the Saba blog: http://www.saba.com/blogs/
- Follow Saba on Twitter: @SabaSoftware
About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) enables organizations to build a transformative workplace that leverages the advent of social networking in business and the ubiquity of mobile to empower an organization’s most mission-critical assets – its people. The company provides a set of people-centric enterprise solutions to various businesses and industries worldwide. Saba delivers cloud-based learning management, talent management, and social enterprise solutions to transform the way people work.
Saba's premier customer base includes major global organizations and industry leaders in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, packaged goods, and public sector organizations. 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, 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.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, without limitation, statements regarding the predicted size and growth rate of enterprise social platforms category and Saba’s ability to take advantage of the market growth. Saba's actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties Saba faces that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: Saba's dependence on growth of the markets for Saba's products, dependence on acceptance of Saba's products by customers and channel partners, fluctuation in customer spending, length of Saba's sales cycle, competition, rapid technological change, dependence on new product introductions and enhancements, and potential software defects. Readers should also refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011, and similar disclosures in subsequent reports filed with the SEC. The forward-looking statements and risks stated in this press release are based on information available to Saba today. Saba assumes no obligation to update them.
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