| T-Systems France Selects Saba Centra For Its Collaborative Work
Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 31, 2007 – Saba (Nasdaq: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, announced today that T-Systems France has adopted Saba Centra for internal use. The Saba integrator has elected to use the solution for its internal employees and external clients to collaborate on new product announcements and to enhance knowledge sharing.
Having implemented the solution for several of Saba’s existing clients in France, T-Systems was already familiar with the benefits of the solution and decided to use the Saba Centra solution for its own requirements. Saba Centra has quickly found a place in the daily lives of the T-Systems consultants, project managers and managers, who are now able to organize meetings with their clients on-line, progress projects and validate or edit specification documents seamlessly with participants from various locations across the country.
‘We have been implementing Saba Centra solutions since 2002 and our teams believe it is the best tool on the market, mainly due to its minimal bandwidth consumption, its ease of use and its simplicity of access,’ says Philippe Georges, Marketing Director of T-Systems France. ‘Our clients have been quick to see the benefits they can gain for their own internal requirements, and we were keen to leverage the same technology internally. What could be more convincing than to use the very tools internally that we are promoting to our customers?’
Saba Centra has been used within T-Systems to facilitate new product launches and enable internal knowledge transfer on T-Systems technology to it’s geographically diverse spread of employees in France. A series of internal seminars ensured that over 500 T-Systems employees were able to quickly learn about new products and also have first hand experience of Saba Centra, ensuring a quick adoption of the Saba Centra technology internally. As a result, new practices were put in place such as enhanced product support with remote servicing of the user application.
Since implementing Saba Centra internally, T-Systems have seen a reduction in travel costs and decrease in the time taken to conclude key business decisions. The quick internal adoption of Saba Centra occurred with minimal need to train the users and demonstrates the ease of use of the Saba Centra product. T-Systems consultants and project managers now have more time to devote to their clients, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, a reduction in travel costs and improved productivity. T-Systems management team has also benefited from the solution, reporting productivity improvements due to shorter and more focused on-line meetings.
"Saba Centra has had a long standing relationship with T-Systems in France and we are delighted that they have taken this a step further by rolling out Saba Centra within their own organization,” said Alun Cope-Morgan, President for Saba, EMEA. “T-Systems has truly embraced the Saba Centra platform at every level of its business, as evidenced by the huge savings in travel time and improved communications with their clients.”
Before choosing the Saba Centra platform, T-Systems tested a number of other collaborative technologies. T-Systems was seeking a solution that met three key criteria: ease of use, Voice over IP (VoIP), and easy, intuitive scheduling of virtual sessions by anyone. Saba Centra quickly differentiated themselves as the only solution providers available to match all of these criteria.
As a result of this early success, T-Systems opted to perpetuate the use of Saba Centra by purchasing new licenses, early in 2007, enabling T-Systems to broaden the use of the solution across new departments and users. T-Systems is also looking into using other Saba Centra facilities, such as its Knowledge Center component, which facilitates the exchange of documents within communities in order to enhance its role as a force for change.
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About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, using a people-centric approach to increase productivity and performance. As a trusted partner, Saba enables the Aligned Enterprise™ for over 1,200 customers in 150 countries by providing an integrated people management system to continuously align goals, develop people, improve collaboration and increase visibility into organizational performance.
Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Scotiabank, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, 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.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, without limitation, statements regarding T-Systems intent to use additional Saba Centra facilities. Saba's actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties Saba faces that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: Saba's dependence on growth of the markets for Saba's products, dependence on acceptance of Saba's products by customers and channel partners, fluctuation in customer spending, length of Saba's sales cycle, competition, rapid technological change, dependence on new product introductions and enhancements and potential software defects. Readers should also refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors” on pages 11 through 21 of Saba's Annual Report on Form 10-K dated August 18, 2006 and similar disclosures in subsequent Saba periodic SEC reports. The forward-looking statements and risks stated in this press release are based on information available to Saba today. Saba assumes no obligation to update them.
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