Webinar is Part of Saba’s Learning Best Practices Series

REDWOOD SHORES, CALIF., Aug 9, 2005 —Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, today announced that it will be hosting a webinar, “The High Impact Learning Organization™ – How Do You Become One?,” on Aug. 18, 2005 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. PDT. Featuring industry expert, Josh Bersin, president of Bersin & Associates, the webinar will review effective strategies for the management of learning to optimize the impact of enterprise learning.

Bersin will highlight the findings of his company’s most recent study, “The High-Impact Learning Organization: What Works™ in the Management, Operations, and Governance of Corporate Training,” which is based on surveys and interviews with more than 350 learning organizations. The report, supported by Saba and several other corporate sponsors, identifies factors that enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of a learning organization and provides examples of best practices in learning governance.

Learning Governance: The Key to An Effective Training Organization
“More than $85 billion is spent annually on corporate training in North America…(and) despite this large and steady investment, training is notoriously difficult to manage and measure,” according to the Bersin & Associates study.

Saba recognizes that for an organization to derive maximum benefit from its learning investments, a governance system comprising of decision-making structures, processes, practices and values must be in place. As learning stakeholders, service providers and content assets become more aligned across organizations, the effectiveness and efficiency of training is vastly improved.

“Whether learning teams are more centralized or decentralized, the key to success is improved alignment of people, processes and services so that best practices can be more effectively leveraged across large organizations,” said Grant Ricketts vice president of business development for Saba. “This is a next step for many companies as they seek to reduce fragmentation of the learning function, creating more proactive and strategically aligned change agents within their organizations. By establishing better governance processes and procedures, organizations can realize the full value of their learning investments.”

Saba Learning Services: Best Practices Consulting
Saba Learning Services provides best practices consulting services that enable organizations to leverage the impact of their learning and performance systems. Through its Learning Governance workshops, Saba has helped large financial services and healthcare organizations build governance teams and realign their learning processes to be less divisionally focused, supporting more cross-organizational requirements.

For the worldwide field organization of a major technology provider, Saba developed processes to discover business-building strategies used by the highest-producing sales executives. These strategies were used as the basis for a career development program, which is now focusing learning and performance initiatives on emulating the outcomes of the best and brightest in the organization.

Webinar: The High Impact Learning Organization – How Do You Become One?
“Saba has demonstrated leadership in raising the important issue of learning governance,” said Bersin. “We are excited to present the results of our comprehensive research as well as to share more details and analysis of best practices corporate training governance.”

The webinar will review the following aspects of learning governance

• How to organize your learning organization for highest efficiency and effectiveness
• How do you align and service distributed parts of the organization?
• How do you manage the budget process and allocate costs? What is an optimal allocation on staff vs. programs vs. technology?

Host: Grant Ricketts, Vice President Business Development, Saba
Guest Expert: Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder of Bersin & Associates
Date: Thursday, August 18th 2005
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PDT
To Register: http://www.saba.com/webinars/High_Impact_Learning

About Saba

Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is a leading provider of integrated Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. Saba enables The Aligned Enterprise™ by aligning goals, developing and motivating people, and measuring results – driving greater organizational performance.

More than 10 million current users in over 30 countries use Saba today. Customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, BMW, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko’s, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Scotiabank, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Swedbank and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Saba has 20 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call (+ 1) 877-SABA-101 or (+1) 650-779-2791.

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