REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—September 10, 2007—Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced the general availability of Saba Enterprise 5.4. With this release, Saba delivers a unified people management suite that makes learning, performance and talent management processes faster, easier and more meaningful for individual employees and organizations.

Saba Enterprise 5.4 is a comprehensive people management platform designed to align people processes to organizational goals. This new release brings significant talent management, collaboration and dashboard capabilities to the market, including:

• New, dynamic talent comparison and analysis tools—such as extensible 9-box grids, organizational charts and side-by-side candidate comparisons
• Industry-leading embedded search capabilities to find and match talent with succession and development opportunities
• Innovative abilities to support informal learning, as well as capture and publish individual knowledge—bringing the power of Web 2.0 to the enterprise
• My Success Plan, a unified view of individual goals and objectives, certification and compliance, and development activities to ensure a clear understanding of what it takes to be successful within the organization
• Support for 23 languages—meeting specific, localized organizational requirements
  Enhanced dashboards and portal integration—provides relevant information to managers and employees where they work
• Support for enterprise governance of people management processes provided by new component ownership capabilities and flexible management capabilities

“Now more than ever, our customers are looking to consolidate disparate IT systems and reduce costs without compromising organizational efficiency.” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba. “By delivering a complete people management platform that includes the industry’s best practices for people management, our customers have a unified solution that can help them to develop and manage their most important asset—people—and improve organizational performance.”

“In the hyper-competitive financial services market, our talent is a competitive advantage,” said Pinkie Laye, senior vice president, Corporate Talent Management Office at Union Bank of California. “At UBOC, we’ve deployed Saba Learning and Saba Performance to support a strategic, unified approach to managing peoples’ performance and development. As we look to further enhance our focus on succession and career planning, the enhanced talent capabilities in Saba Enterprise 5.4 are very compelling.”

Saba Enterprise 5.4 enables companies to track and manage individual and organizational performance, blended learning, talent planning and development, and interact and exchange knowledge online, in real time. Saba Enterprise 5.4 is built on a robust, advanced architecture based on open standards, providing enterprise-class security, scalability and reliability. In addition, Saba Enterprise 5.4 provides collaboration capabilities that extend the value of people management systems. Moreover, this powerful solution can be deployed OnDemand or on premise, to meet a wide variety of organizational requirements.

"With the demand for nurses and specialized clinical staff, we've been able to build learning programs that align with our business and clinical needs,” said James Smith, Director CLI Operations, Allina Hospitals & Clinics. "Saba is on the right track with the new informal learning capabilities of Saba Enterprise 5.4. Making it easy to quickly create and share knowledge is essential to our organization achieving its strategic business goals and providing exceptional care to our patients."

“According to our recent research report, organizations are increasingly concerned with integrating talent management processes.” said Jason Corsello, vice president, Center of Excellence, Knowledge Infusion. “We believe organizations will be most effective with a unified talent management strategy. This enables organizations to tie succession decisions to performance data, experience, proficiency, education and potential, and increases the value of learning and development by linking what you do, what you learn, and your potential opportunities.”

Availability
Saba Enterprise 5.4 is available now. Deployment can be either OnDemand or on-premise. For more information, please visit www.saba.com/products.

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 1,200 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, DaimlerChrysler, 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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Alissa Vasilevskis
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