Saba Centra Suite
Overview
Saba Centra enables globally dispersed employees, customers, and partners to learn, interact and exchange knowledge online in real time. Saba Centra’s dynamic, interactive environment provides an experience equal to that of in-person sessions without incurring the costs of time and travel.
Advanced desktop application integration supports high-end user adoption across global enterprise deployments. Users need only a web browser to attend a seminar from anywhere, even over low-bandwidth connections or through corporate firewalls and proxy servers.
| Saba Centra is used for... |
| Live, structured virtual classes that are structured and replicate the physical classroom experience |
Self-service emeetings that enable collaboration in an unstructured, informal learning environment |
Large-scale web seminars held when formation meetings are required |
Self-paced training that lets learners use recordings to tap into the learning that goes on in virtual classrooms, emeetings and web seminars |
Deployed in 1,000+ organizations worldwide, Saba Centra is built for the enterprise and has an advanced architecture that is scalable, secure, and reliable. Fault-tolerance, redundancy, and three-tier design ensure maximum up-time. Bandwidth-efficient architecture helps provide maximum performance.
Saba Centra’s complete set of administrative features provides one location to schedule, manage and report on online sessions. Using Centra’s built-in workflow, you can streamline administrative tasks with event creation wizards, automated email management systems, attendance and registration tracking, and access control administration.
| Saba Centra Benefits |
- Cost savings, time and travel; Saba Centra’s Voice over IP (VoIP) cuts delivery costs as well
- Faster time-to-market for new offering
- More rapid product adoption through more timely customer training
- More rapid deployment of new enterprise applications
- Increased day-to-day employee productivity
- Improved corporate compliance efforts
- Greater reach for certification programs
- Faster end-user adoption of new processes and procedures
- Improved knowledge transfer and retention
- Greater sense of community in geographically dispersed workplaces
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Saba Centra for Virtual Classes
Saba Centra for Virtual Classes replicates the discourse and discussion of a typical classroom with a complete set of features for highly interactive, effective group learning– bringing together voice, video, data and graphics in a structured online learning environment for up to 500 simultaneous users. Saba Centra’s scalable, secure, reliable architecture is the best solution for large, extended enterprise training and learning.
With Saba Centra, you can deliver highly effective blended learning programs that provide support for rich, varied session content, resulting in satisfaction, comprehension and retention rates equal to “in person” formal training. You can reach users anywhere – only a web browser is required to attend. Support for 10 different languages enables participants to view their user interface in the language of their choice, In addition, you’re able to eliminate costs (time and money) associated with travel for training and learning.
Saba Centra has built-in workflow and powerful event management capabilities that help you facilitate activities before and after an online class. The web-based scheduling, registration and enrollment allows you to automate pre-session set-up and post-session follow-up, track performance with detailed reports of enrollment, attendance, test results and recorded event playbacks.
| Benefits |
Features |
| Fast adoption across the enterprise with minimal demands on helpdesk and IT |
An intuitive interface with self-service set-up wizards and firewall-friendly access |
| Measure learning results |
Registration and attendance reporting to track and report on enrollment, session feedback and attendance data |
| Maximize learning investment and optimize learning experience with rich, blended learning sessions |
Interactivity tools, application sharing, multiple presenters, breakout rooms and labs for collaborative and hands-on learning
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| Record and extend the value and return of real-time learning |
Fully unified conferencing for “live” learning discussions; record and playback sessions for on-demand learning
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| Leverage investment in existing technologies |
Integrates with broad range of desktop applications, web services architectures, and portal applications
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| Secure, scalable deployment across the extended enterprise |
Designed to meet enterprise standards for security, scalability, redundancy and availability
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Saba Centra for eMeetings
Saba Centra for eMeetings helps people get together across the building or around the globe – live, in real time – to share knowledge and information. You have all the advantages of in-person meetings without the expense and hassle of getting to them. As a result, you’re able to have highly productive, secure meetings, product demos and partner briefings all from the privacy of your office.
Saba Centra for eMeetings replicates the dynamic interaction of on-site meetings, using a rich set of online tools and capabilities. Features include integrated audio and video conferencing, application sharing with mark-up, PowerPoint slides with animation, real-time feedback, whiteboards, instant surveys, file transfer and text chat.
With just a Web browser, users can initiate a meeting by simply clicking on the Saba Centra icon on their desktop or directly from today’s most popular applications, including Microsoft Office. Personal time zone settings ensure attendees always see event details in their local time. And with support for 10 different languages, participants can view their user interface in the language of their choice.
| Benefits |
Features |
| Ease of use with minimal demands on helpdesk and IT |
Intuitive interface to create meetings and invite participants with little or no training. You can schedule meetings with standard desktop applications like Microsoft Outlook and collaborate on spreadsheets and other documents. |
Dynamic, interactive collaboration equal to that of in-person meetings |
- Interactivity tools – polling, chat, surveys, laughter/applause – combined with rich multi-media
- Integration of multi-point video enriches “live” meetings
- Mark-up slides and interactive whiteboards capture and save notes for later review
- Just-in-time PowerPoint import
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| Ease of meeting management and follow-up |
Automated email management to create, schedule and confirm meetings; automatically email out meeting minutes and link to meeting recording |
| Collaborate in real time to supplement formal learning |
Seamless integration with Saba Learning launches instant meetings for real-time collaboration |
| Reduce or eliminate teleconferencing costs |
Choose free, integrated, full-duplex voice-over-IP conferencing or your own teleconferencing service. Fully unified conferencing for your choice of VoIP or teleconferencing and mixed audio lets participants attend using either option |
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Saba Centra for Web Seminars
Saba Centra for Web seminars combines voice, video, data and graphics in a structured, highly engaging online environment that supports large groups – up to 1,000 simultaneous attendees. Centra provides a complete solution for start-to-finish management, eliminating the complex planning, time and expense entailed in large, on-site events.
You’re able to manage all aspects of the event from registration and reminders, to customer follow-up, to recordings made available for those who’ve missed the event, or for ongoing marketing and even greater reach.
Saba Centra enables you to captivate and educate large audiences with online seminars and lectures, easily integrating dynamic presentations and powerful multimedia. With live application demos, streaming video and Flash, support for multi-presenters, ad-hoc audience polling and moderated chat, you’re able to deliver high-impact events.
| Benefits |
Features |
| Reach, capture and profile your high-value audience of prospects, customers, partners and employees to ensure a successful event |
Branded event pages; customer surveys, automated email management, custom registration, lead source tracking, single-click attend and localization with 10 support languages. |
| Ease of use for presenters and attendees |
Intuitive user interface requires no end-user training. |
Ease of managing interactive and collaborative seminars -- follow-up actions are automatically captured throughout the event |
- Interactivity tools – polling, chat, surveys, laughter/applause, Web touring – combined with rich multi-media.
- Integration of multi-point video enriches “live” meetings.
- Mark-up slides and interactive whiteboards capture and save notes for later review.
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| Reduce or eliminate teleconferencing costs: choose free, integrated, full-duplex voice-over-IP conferencing or your own teleconferencing service |
Fully unified conferencing for your choice of VoIP or teleconferencing and mixed audio lets participants attend using either option. Universal connectivity – attendees need only 28.8 kbps connection. |
| Keep in touch with web seminar participants: nurture and grow their interest in your company and your products |
Customer email follow-up; registration and attendance reporting; event recordings with registration; data export; and custom online evaluation forms. |
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Saba Centra Knowledge Center
The Saba Centra Knowledge Center allows you to store, search, manage and deliver information and resources from one centralized location. The Centra Knowledge Center is a portal for personalized learning that tracks and prescribes learning activities and offers on-demand access to a searchable catalog of organizational knowledge resources.
Integration with Saba Centra lets learners conveniently attend–and instructors easily create and lead–live, interactive virtual classes and sessions from the Saba Centra Knowledge Center: a total blended learning solution.
Using sophisticated capabilities for categorizing and assigning content within the Knowledge Center, organizations can more flexibly and accurately target the selection and delivery of information to individual learners, according to their job profile, skills and knowledge gaps, delivering personalized blended learning programs throughout your enterprise.
The Saba Centra Knowledge Center also allows administrators to track and facilitate learning in order to generate management reports summarizing both individual and group activities and provide a method to assess the growth of organizational competencies.
| Benefits |
Features |
Increase performance and optimize productivity across your workforce |
- Personalized learning tracks that are adjusted and measured according to proficiency.
- On-demand access to company information and assigned learning through the content library.
- One stop for blended learning with live and record sessions.
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| Ease of tracking and reporting on organizational capabilities and development |
Competency and skills tracking, detailed individual assessments, customized reports and user profiles. |
| Content-rich library for reuse and sharing of learning objects across the enterprise |
Learning content management capabilities which facilitate development and maintenance of content library. |
Enterprise-strength system that can be scaled to meet your needs as you grow |
- Web-based architecture supports multiple departments.
- Scalability enhanced with Microsoft SQL server.
- Integration with LMS systems, including Saba Learning Management.
- Integration with enterprise directories and eTrust SiteMinder for optimal security.
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Saba Centra Third-Party Integration
Extend the value of your Saba Centra solution with third-party product and service integration. Centra's extensive partnerships provide seamless integration with your enterprise systems to
- reduce system administration costs
- further leverage your IT investments
- deliver a higher ROI
Leverage your investment in existing technologies with Centra’s tight integration with desktop and enterprise applications, databases, and infrastructure, such as Microsoft Outlook, LDAP/AD, enterprise portals, SiteMinder, NTLM, and Cisco CDN.
| Desktop Applications |
Envoke Instant Messaging
Microsoft Windows Desktop
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Office Powerpoint
Microsoft Office Project
Microsoft Office Visio
Microsoft Office Word
MSN Instant Messenger
Microsoft Windows Messenger |
| Enterprise Applications |
Oracle iLearning
PeopleSoft Learning Management (LM)
SAP AG - Learning Solutions (LSO)
Siebel Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) |
| Learning Management Systems |
Blackboard Learning System
Generation 21 Learning Systems
Training Partner by GeoMetrix
KnowledgePlanet
Pathlore
Plateau
Saba
SumTotal Systems
TEDS Learning Management System
THINQ Learning Solutions
WBT Systems TopClass |
| Security Applications |
Microsoft NTLM
Netegrity Siteminder |
| Virtual Labs |
Surgient |
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Saba Centra Demo
View a comprehensive online demo on the benefits and capabilities of Saba Centra, Knowledge Center, and associated professional services.
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