REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. - (Business Wire) Saba (NASDAQ:SABA) the premier people management software and services provider, has announced that its customer, the HIV Online Provider Education (HOPE) Program, will be featured in an upcoming Saba Webcast titled,
“How Online Collaboration is Changing the World
—The Use of Technology for Rapid, Global Knowledge Transfer,
” to be held Friday, May 30, 2008 from 3:00 p.m.
– 4:00 p.m. EDT.
The Hope Program, which is led by the faculty and staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners AIDS Research Center, uses Saba Centra to conduct a bi-monthly, online conference series that involves doctors located at more than 50 sites within the U.S., Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. This series has proven to be a very successful way for physicians around the world to share experiences, research and complicated medical cases.
During this Webcast, Dr. Raj Gandhi, director of HIV Clinical Services and Education at the Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will highlight the benefits of and real-world best practices around international online collaboration. Attendees will learn how The Hope Program has used technology to overcome the challenges of distance and costly face-to-face training and to utilize effective blended learning to advance training in HIV medicine.
“The Hope Program is a great example of how organizations are using Saba Centra to deliver cost-effective distance learning and education,” said A.G. Lambert, vice president, product marketing for Saba. “By attending this informative and inspiring Webcast, organizations of all types can learn best-practices around how to incorporate Web conferencing and collaboration technology to promote effective knowledge transfer and enhance organizational performance.”
Saba Centra is an easy-to-use Web conferencing and collaboration solution that enables employees to collaborate and contribute to organizational knowledge. By capturing knowledge-transfer as it happens, organizations can enhance how they collaborate among globally distributed employees, customers and partners. Moreover, Saba Centra helps organizations reduce costs by eliminating travel and other traditional meeting-related costs.
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, 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 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
Alissa Vasilevskis, +1-650-581-2615 (press relations)
avasilevskis@saba.com
