REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. - (Business Wire) Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced the latest version of its industry-leading Web conferencing and collaboration solution, Saba Centra 7.6 SP1. Available now, this latest release supports the needs of large enterprises, makes it easy to access, capture, and share information anytime with RSS feeds and one-click knowledge capture, and furthers real-time learning with enhanced evaluation and learning event administration.
“Our customers are looking at new ways to create a connected corporate community across their globally dispersed enterprises,” said A.G. Lambert, vice president of marketing for Saba. “With new features that make knowledge capture and sharing easier, as well as enhancements that increase the interactivity of online learning, Saba Centra continues to make it easy to engage people across an organization to enhance productivity.”
Saba Centra is an industry-leading Web conferencing and collaboration solution that enables employees, customers and partners to learn, interact and exchange knowledge online regardless of location. Saba Centra 7.6 SP1 delivers new features to encourage attendee participation and interaction, making meeting online even more appealing for organizations of all sizes looking to reduce meeting-related travel costs and go green. Saba Centra 7.6 SP1 also streamlines end-to-end event management, reducing time and expenses associated with administering events online as well as creating an optimal online learning experience. In addition, with seamless integration to the Saba Knowledge Base, Saba Centra 7.6 SP1 makes it easy for organizations to capture knowledge from subject matter experts and share that information with a single click.
New Features in Saba Centra 7.6 SP1 Include:
RSS feeds - Every published session can easily be designated as part of an RSS feed, making distribution and subscription of information part of everyday work processes.
Seamless Knowledge Transfer to Saba Enterprise – makes it easy to publish and share information to accelerate informal learning. Recordings can now be published with just one click to the Saba Knowledge Base from any recording flow, including from the Saba Centra recording studio. Once in the Saba Knowledge Base, knowledge assets can be incorporated into a wide variety of online and blended learning programs, providing constant access to subject-matter expert knowledge for course designers and learning content managers.
Meeting and Classroom Enhancements – optimizes the virtual classroom, web seminar and meeting experience with new evaluation enhancements including improved scoring and weighting capabilities and out of the box reports, improved agenda import capabilities, and improved support for collaborative breakout rooms that encourage attendee involvement and interaction.
Batch Tool and Batch Edit updates – supports end-to-end event planning and simplifies administration with the ability to easily enroll groups in an event, add events, remove events and add users as well as designate their role.
ADA 508 Enhancements – provides greater access to all participants with audible alerts, text-message notifications, text chat history, media panel content identification, screen reader support in playback mode and closed captioning.
Usability Enhancements – improves meeting effectiveness with features that include real-time markup over animated slides; studio recordings and enhanced Microsoft Outlook scheduler; and an improved event wizard that streamlines the event registration process.
Enhanced Platform and Browser Support – meets the ongoing needs of enterprise customers with multiple platform updates, including support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g and Apple Macintosh OS 10.5. Saba Centra 7.6 SP1 also includes updated support for recent versions of Firefox and Safari browsers. Saba Centra is built for the enterprise and has an advanced architecture that is secure, scalable and reliable.
Availability –
These new features are available now in Saba Centra 7.6 SP1 OnDemand or on premise. Signup for a free trial at http://www.saba.com/products/centra/trial
About Saba
Founded in 1997, Saba (NASDAQ:SABA) is the premier global provider of strategic human capital management (HCM) 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 HCM 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 ABN AMRO, Alcatel-Lucent, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, Caterpillar, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, Daimler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, 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.
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Saba Software, Inc.
Alissa Vasilevskis, +1-650-581-2615
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