REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. - (Business Wire) Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced that it has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing.
1 The Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their ability to execute and their completeness of vision.
According to Gartner, “Real-time collaboration support is becoming a primary requirement, after e-mail, for efficient enterprise communications. Web conferencing not only allows people to collaborate virtually and share information, it also provides facilities to record and capture formal or ad hoc collaborative interactions for later tracking and reuse. As organizations develop their collaboration strategies from a technical and people perspective, Web-conferencing penetration rates will increase because of the cost savings and productivity improvements Web conferencing brings.”
“Saba Centra enables organizations to facilitate a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing that increases productivity across the extended enterprise,” said A. G. Lambert, vice president of marketing for Saba. “We believe being placed in the Visionaries Quadrant illustrates our commitment to creating an innovative Web Conferencing and collaboration solution that can improve business performance by enabling our customers to bring people together regardless of location and unify formal and informal processes across the talent management lifecycle.”
Saba Centra is a dynamic, easy-to-use Web Conferencing and collaboration solution that enables rapid knowledge capture and transfer. Saba Centra enables community-based content creation with an innovative recording studio, extends online learning effectiveness with more accessible hands-on training and drives usage of Web conferencing and collaboration through ease of use and integration with popular business applications. By capturing knowledge-transfer as it happens, organizations can enhance how they collaborate among globally distributed employees, customers and partners.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 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 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.
SABA, the Saba logo, 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 Web Conferencing” David Mario Smith, Jeffrey Mann, July, 29, 2008
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