Cognos Honors Saba for Outstanding Achievement in Channel Sales; Saba Presented Prestigious Pinnacle Partner Award at Cognos' 2003 Partner Summit.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Cognos' 2003 Partner Summit REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2003 Saba (Nasdaq:SABA), the leading provider of human capital development and management (HCDM HCDM Human Capital Development and Management ) solutions, was recently recognized by Cognos (Nasdaq:COGN) (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :CSN CSN Crosby, Stills, and Nash (band) CSN Centrala studiestödsnämnden (Swedish: state education grant and loan program) CSN Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (French) ), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, with a Pinnacle Partner Award for its role in Cognos' ongoing channel sales success in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Presented at Cognos' 2003 Partner Summit in Orlando, FL, partners were recognized for their success with the Cognos solution based on understanding of the technology, sales performance and value-add. "We are honored to receive the Pinnacle Partner Award. This award is a testament to Cognos' best-of-breed business intelligence solutions and Saba's innovative application of business intelligence to the enterprise learning market," said Malcolm Hobbs, Saba's vice president of worldwide marketing. "Until now, it has been difficult for organizations to correlate learning initiatives directly with their business goals. Saba Analytics uniquely empowers businesses to analyze enterprise learning effectiveness and its impact on organizational performance Organizational performance comprises the actual output or results of an organization as measured against its intended outputs (or goals and objectives). Specialists in many fields are concerned with organizational performance including strategic planners, operations, ." Saba Analytics enables organizations to immediately gain deep and comprehensive insight into learning programs analyzed at significant levels, from cost and activity to status of regulatory compliance. For example, sales managers can easily subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; an analysis, which will measure the progress and compliance of their team with a new product certification Product certification or product qualification is the process of certifying that a certain product has passed performance and/or quality assurance tests or qualification requirements stipulated in regulations such as a building code and nationally accredited test standards, . They can then correlate learning results directly with the achievement of sales quotas or product revenue. With these powerful analyses, organizations can rapidly make decisions that improve performance and reduce the risk of missing business objectives. "Through our successful partnership with Saba, Cognos is able to extend the delivery of our industry-leading solutions," said Ted Jandl, Cognos vice president of strategic partners. "We are pleased to honor Saba not only for its high level of sales success, but also for helping our joint customers derive value and benefits from our solutions across various industries and applications. Partners like Saba have proven that they can deliver a high level of excellence and will remain an integral part of our overall company success." The Cognos channel program supplies partners with the support and technology they require in order to be successful, including end-to-end technical and product support, product maintenance and product training. In addition, the program delivers a variety of business development tools and resources, including sales and marketing materials. About Saba Saba (Nasdaq:SABA) is the leading provider of human capital development and management (HCDM) solutions, which increase organizational performance through the implementation of a management system for aligning, developing, and managing people. Among the Global 2000, Saba customers include Alcatel, Anheuser-Busch, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , DaimlerChrysler, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Corp., Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. , Medtronic, Procter & Gamble, and VERITAS Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. . Saba has received industry recognition for its solutions, and recently achieved the leader quadrant position in the Gartner 2003 e-Learning Suite "Magic Quadrant." Founded in 1997, Saba is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California Redwood Shores is an upscale and desirable [1] waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is located on the eastern edge of Belmont, but is actually part of incorporated Redwood City. , with offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call 877/SABA-101 or 650/779-2791. About Cognos Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance. Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage -- Corporate Performance Management (CPM) -- achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence. Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com. Saba, the Saba logo, and the marks relating to other Saba products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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