Saba Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Latest Corporate Learning Systems Magic Quadrant

Saba Delivers Comprehensive Platform —Learning Management, Learning Content Management, Virtual Class and Professional Services—that Supports Formal, Informal and Blended Learning to Improve Business Performance

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—July 2, 2008—Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems (CLS).1 The Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their ability to execute and their completeness of vision.

“We believe being placed in the Leaders Quadrant demonstrates the impact Saba has had helping customers achieve organizational excellence through a disciplined approach to developing and managing their people.” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO for Saba. “With more than 10 years of experience in corporate learning, our vision and ability to execute is reflected through our continued growth as a company as well as our solutions that are being used by millions of users around the world at leading organizations like Cisco Systems, Deloitte, IBM, U.S. Army and more.”

According to the Gartner report, “Leaders must not only meet the market's current requirements, which are continually changing, but also anticipate future requirements. Also fundamental is the ability to articulate how they will address these requirements as part of a vision for an expanded CLS. In addition, Leaders have a proven track record of financial performance and an established market presence. Their installed base gives them a strong presence in the CLS market, and they demonstrate continued growth in customers and revenue. In terms of vision, they are perceived as thought leaders, with well articulated plans for product development, marketing and channel support. Leaders have the highest combined scores for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. These strategic providers will continue to drive the market forward by broadening their CLS functionality and integration. Buyers can expect that, as a group, Leaders will be considered as part of most new product purchases and will continue to have high success rates in winning new business.”

Saba recently announced the addition of powerful, new formal and informal learning capabilities to its Saba Learning Suite. The new Saba Knowledge Center delivers Web 2.0 collaboration, recommendation and power search features that take informal learning to the next level by enabling organizations to broadly capture and access institutional knowledge. Other significant enhancements include continuing education (CE), certification and compliance capabilities. As part of Saba’s unified people management platform, these enhancements can enable Saba’s customers to create connected communities focused on organizational goals and advance learning across their organization.

“It’s an exciting time in the learning market as organizations leverage new technologies to enable the power of peer-to-peer informal learning,” continued Yazdani. “We look forward to building upon our tight integration between Saba Centra and Saba Learning to provide our customers with next generation Web conferencing and collaboration capabilities that will enable them to effectively share informal knowledge and expertise across their organization. “

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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 1,300 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-Lucent, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, Caterpillar, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, Daimler, 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.