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Saba Achieves Significant Momentum for Saba-Centra

Reports active adoption of Saba-Centra as enterprises deploy real-time learning solutions to support strategic business initiatives

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 7, 2007 — Saba, the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, has announced strong adoption of its Saba-Centra Live™ real-time learning solution in the enterprise. The company is seeing its existing customers increase their Saba-Centra deployments as real-time learning becomes critical for saving costs and enhancing productivity. It is also seeing more customers deploy Saba-Centra to support critical business objectives. Saba-Centra is helping organizations to increase revenues through enhanced sales team effectiveness, accelerate time-to-market of new products and streamline roll-out of new internal services or applications.

Saba-Centra Live, available as an on-premise or on-demand solution, is now proven in hundreds of enterprise deployments worldwide. Customers span the finance, healthcare, leisure, travel, automotive and manufacturing sectors, as well as hundreds of academic institutions and government offices. Customers with Saba-Centra deployments now include Cadbury Schweppes, Continental Airlines, Ericsson, The Internal Revenue Service and Vodafone. As a key part of Saba’s enterprise learning solution, Saba-Centra is tightly integrated with Saba Learning, providing real-time classes and informal instruction launched directly from within the Learning Management System (LMS). Customers using both Saba Learning and Saba-Centra include BMW, Deloitte Touche and EMC.

“Real-time learning is playing an increasingly pivotal role in organizations. This is driving the need for highly-integrated, seamless learning solutions that allow employees to access live courses and materials relevant to their job,” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO, Saba. “The momentum we’re experiencing reflects our expertise in the learning market and the commitment we’ve continually demonstrated to Saba-Centra as a core part of our integrated Human Capital Management offering.”

Expanding customer deployment: IRS
Existing Saba-Centra customers are extending their deployments as a result of high return on investment and as they see the significant productivity gains that are possible. Saba-Centra’s scalable, reliable and secure platform makes it appropriate for thousands of events and user accounts. For example, the Internal Revenue Service has continually extended its use of Saba-Centra to other departments since 2001.

“Since installing Saba-Centra’s virtual learning environment in 2001, the IRS has saved over $79 million in travel expenses associated with the training of our employees,” said Mitch Chazan, with IRS’ Web Services Branch. “This does not even begin to estimate the savings derived from events being held virtually that were previously cost prohibitive. In addition to saving the taxpayer’s money, Saba-Centra’s collaborative tool is improving the quality of our training programs. The use of Saba-Centra for information sharing has resulted in a better-informed workforce. Managers are able to connect immediately with team members, regardless of location, to provide efficient collaboration and knowledge sharing.”

Saba-Centra is specifically engineered for real-time learning. It offers an online learning environment that incorporates virtual classes, web seminars, self-service web meetings and content management into everyday business practice to overcome the challenge of training geographically dispersed teams, including the growing mobile workforce.

Saba is continually investing in support and development of the Saba-Centra solution in order to meet the needs of customers in enterprises, government and academia. Upcoming enhancements will extend the range of delivery mechanisms and platforms Saba-Centra supports, in order to facilitate the growing use of the solution across organizations.

About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) ) is the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, using a people-centric approach to increase productivity and performance. As a trusted partner, Saba enables the Aligned Enterprise™ for over 1,100 customers in 150 countries by providing an integrated people management system to continuously align goals, develop people, improve collaboration and increase visibility into organizational performance.

Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Scotiabank, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, Wyndham International, Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters Laboratories, and the U.S. Army 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.

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