Saba Partners with BT Global Services to Provide Complete People Management Solution

Aug. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- Saba , the premier People Cloud provider, today announced a global partnership with BT Global Services, a division of BT Group, which will enable BT Global Services to provide a fully-managed people management solution as part of BT Learning Solutions. This offering will include Saba’s learning management, talent management, online collaboration and enterprise social networking applications.

BT is one of the few organizations to have implemented e-learning on a large scale, delivering more than 85 percent of its training online to more than 100,000 employees. BT draws on its own experience and the capabilities of Saba’s People Cloud Applications to provide a fully-managed solution to help businesses cut costs, improve productivity and align their learning, talent and performance goals with business objectives.

“Saba provides us with an enterprise-scale solution based on a holistic vision around people management. They offer a solution that is organically built, providing a truly unified experience across all people processes, infused with collaboration and enterprise social networking capabilities. We have implemented various learning management systems previously and have in-depth knowledge of the various technologies in this space. We were looking for a modular platform that can grow with the needs of our customers without requiring significant investments in integration,” stated Sundar Balasubramanian, Director of BT Learning Solutions.

“BT joins the Saba Partner Connect Global Program as an Elite partner. An Elite partner demonstrates a proven track record with Saba, a very high degree of business synergy and has significant presence in multiple geographies. Leveraging their consulting, implementation and business strategy expertise, plus combining it with the Saba People Cloud Applications, BT Global Services is focused on helping its customers improve the overall performance of their organization and measure how well their workforce is executing against strategy,” stated Mercedes Ellison, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances and Channels, Saba.

About BT

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries.  Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services.  BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.

In the year ended 31 March 2011, BT Group’s revenue was £20,076 million with profit before taxation of £1,717 million.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group.  BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.

For more information, visit http://www.bt.com

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Saba provides a unified set of People Cloud Applications including enterprise learning, people management, and collaboration technologies delivered through the Saba People Cloud. For more information visit http://www.saba.com.