AST Group Selects Saba Enterprise Learning; South African IT Services and Consulting Leader to Drive Continuous Employee Development.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Saba (Nasdaq:SABA), the leading provider of human capital development and management (HCDM) solutions, today announced that the AST Group, a leading South African IT solutions company, will deploy Saba Enterprise Learning as its corporate learning platform.

The AST Group owns and operates a world-class technology infrastructure and offers a diversified and comprehensive range of IT consulting and delivery services. The AST Group selected Saba as part of the company's objective to consolidate all of its learning and human capital development projects and adopt a comprehensive blended learning approach to employee development. In the first phase, AST will leverage Saba Enterprise Learning to consolidate, centralize and automate all learning activities to help reduce the considerable costs of administering a learning environment. Eventually, AST plans to give all employees access to this system to manage and plan their individual development needs in association with their respective managers, based on their individual performance contracts. AST will have access to detailed reports and tracking on individual progress throughout its employee base.

"Saba Enterprise Learning delivers strategic value to large organizations by improving the time-to-market of new products and leveraging our most powerful asset -- our people," said Sanet Cilliers, Manager, AST Learning. "Using Saba, we expect to leverage our enterprise learning investment to not only improve the performance of our entire workforce but also have a direct impact on improving the performance of the organization as a whole. AST Group has done business with over 90% of the top listed companies in South Africa, so we are very pleased to be working with a company that has established such a strong worldwide brand and reputation in the enterprise learning market."

"Leading companies like AST Group recognize that continuous improvement of the skills and competencies of its employees is key to the long-term success of their business," said Bobby Yazdani, Saba Chairman and CEO. "We are pleased to have won another client in the emerging enterprise learning market in South Africa and we look forward to supporting AST Group's goal of continuous employee development."

About AST

The AST Group, listed in the Technology Sector of the JSE Securities Exchange, is recognized as a dynamic and innovative ICT company. AST has world-class technology infrastructure, currently consisting of 14 mainframe processors, more than 200 UNIX platforms and over 3,000 Intel-based client server platforms, supporting more than 265,000 connected devices nation-wide. With more than 60 offices and service centers throughout southern Africa, AST has a diversified and comprehensive range of ICT consulting and delivery capabilities including management consulting, technology consulting, hosting and ICT plan/build assignments. Employing 3,000 ICT professional, the AST Groups specialized business knowledge in the financial services, mining and manufacturing, telecommunications, government and healthcare industries.

About Saba

Saba (Nasdaq:SABA) is a leading provider of human capital development and management (HCDM) solutions, which break down the toughest barriers to improving individual and organizational performance by enabling a management system for people processes that are tightly aligned to the strategy of the organization. Among the Global 2000, Saba customers include Alcatel, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, EMC Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Procter & Gamble, Union Bank of California and VERITAS Software. Saba has received industry recognition for its solutions, and was recently named again to the leader quadrant position in the Gartner 2004 e-Learning Suite and Learning Management Systems (LMS) 'Magic Quadrants' and was ranked by IT industry analyst META Group as a market leader in learning management technology for the third consecutive year.

Saba is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call 877-SABA-101 or 650-779-2791.