Saba Announces New Services Offering to Address Enterprise Learning Governance; Saba Continues to Set the Standard with Services Offering To Ensure Customer Success.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Saba (Nasdaq:SABA), the leading provider of human capital development and management (HCDM) solutions, today announced a new enterprise learning governance services offering that leverages Saba's expertise to make learning more strategic within a company's overall management process. The Saba enterprise learning governance services offering is designed to help customers implement a system of structures, processes, and practices that enable a learning organization to create a blueprint for implementing enterprise-wide learning processes.

Saba's enterprise learning governance practice has evolved over years of implementing enterprise learning solutions in public and private sector organizations. It is designed to help overcome a number of internal factors that can hinder the success of learning initiatives: the inability to engage with multiple business units effectively, sporadic executive support and sponsorship for programs, lack of effective and global standard processes for managing the development and performance of people, a relatively low understanding of enterprise learning governance practices and principles, and the inability to effectively integrate learning with other operational processes and disciplines.

Saba recently authored a white paper, "Governing the Learning Organization in an Era of Strategic Human Capital Development and Management," which can be downloaded at http://www.saba.com/solutions/white_papers/products_services/index.htm It also recently hosted a seminar that detailed strategies for companies to expand enterprise learning programs through improved decision making processes that better align business unit stakeholders and gain ongoing sponsorship support from senior executives. This archived session can be accessed by visiting www.saba.com/insidecontent.

"Governance of the learning function is a challenge that keeps many Chief Learning Officers up at night," said Vincent J. Serritella, Vice President of Employee Development and Director of the Grainger Learning Center. "A key criterion for success is the process of integrating the learning strategy with the company's strategic platform and gaining the ongoing commitment of senior executives."

Serritella will be joining other thought leaders, Mary Kay Russell from Kaiser Permanente and Sundar Nagarathnam from Hyperion, on an executive panel on Enterprise Learning Governance hosted by Saba vice president of business development, Grant Ricketts, at the TechLearn conference this week in New York City. The session, "Enterprise Learning Governance: CLO Panel of Experts," will walk through a structured discussion on how they initiated and now manage their enterprise learning governance processes today.

Saba's deep understanding of enterprise learning governance comes from a large number of its customers running large global implementations across multiple business units that cover many different learning segments; corporate university, sales and channel readiness, regulatory compliance, channel certification and customer education. Saba understands the complexities organizations face when they undertake initiatives, such as implementing the right technology, understanding how to engage with different business units or process owners, and sustaining executive sponsorship.

"Saba's enterprise learning governance practice stands as proof of the industry-leading experience we've gained through hundreds of complex, global implementations. It's more than simply implementing software; we invest in the success of our customers," said Bobby Yazdani, Saba's chairman and CEO. "We partner with our customers to increase the value of their enterprise learning initiatives and help them embrace enterprise learning governance practices to encourage enterprise-wide adoption of learning processes that drive organizational performance."

As part of its enterprise learning governance services offering, Saba works with customers from the early implementation stages to integrate the learning organization more deeply into the corporate framework, focusing learning programs on critical business drivers and performance outcomes. Saba provides the enterprise platform to lay the infrastructure groundwork and complements that technology with services to help ensure strategic alignment and a successful technical implementation. Saba also leverages the experience and best practices of its world-class customers who have successfully adopted and expanded enterprise learning governance practices to extend their learning platforms and gain tight alignment with other parts of their organizations. From helping organizations set up enterprise learning governance workshops to sharing best practices with companies who understand enterprise learning governance, Saba helps its customers make changes that drive improved organizational performance.

Helping organizations understand and embrace enterprise learning governance has quantifiable benefits, including the ability to establish consistency and visibility across the organization. Additional benefits include the improved alignment and empowerment of people, and the ability to manage different layers with operational teams at each layer. Perhaps the most valuable benefit of all is the ability to learn from the best practices of others -- global organizations that have embraced these processes successfully -- and apply those best practices to the learning organization to achieve alignment with business units and stakeholders across the organization.

For more information on Saba's enterprise learning governance offerings, contact Saba at www.saba.com.

About Saba

Saba (Nasdaq:SABA) is a 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, 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 in March 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 [phone].