Saba Partners with Workday to Bring Cloud Learning and HCM Solutions to Customers

Oct. 27, 2011 - PRLog -- Bracknell, UK –Saba , the premier People Cloud provider, today announced at Workday Rising 2011 that it has established a new partnership with Workday, a leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human capital, payroll and financial management, to provide enterprise-class learning and human capital management (HCM) solutions to joint customers in the cloud. Saba’s leading learning management solutions, delivered via the Saba People Cloud, will be tightly integrated with Workday HCM.

The two organizations’ complementary solutions will provide customers a broad portfolio of human capital management and enterprise learning solutions to drive business impact.

In addition, Saba will use Workday Studio, a powerful development tool that builds sophisticated and highly customizable integrations to and from Workday. Using Workday Studio, a component of Workday’s Integration Cloud, joint customers will be able to reduce cost of integration and speed time to deployments.

Supporting Quotes
“Our customers look for strong integration with best-in-class cloud business applications that deliver greater productivity for their people,” said Jeff Carr, president, global field operations.  “We’re very excited about this partnership with Workday, as it will allow Saba and Workday to provide significant value to our joint customers around the globe by delivering an integrated and unique customer experience.”

“We are pleased to have Saba join the Workday ecosystem and leverage the Workday Integration Cloud,” said Jeff Pulver, Workday’s vice president, business development. “Many of Workday’s customers are looking for an integrated HCM and learning solution and Saba has a great track record of success.”

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About Workday Rising
Workday Rising 2011 is the company's fifth annual gathering of Workday customers, partner sponsors, prospective customers, and employees coming together to learn, collaborate, and network. It is Workday's largest customer event of the year, with overwhelming support from Workday's customer base of more than 230 companies.

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 the ability to provide solutions to joint customers and the level of integration between Saba People Cloud and Workday HCM applications. 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” in Saba’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011 and similar disclosures in subsequent reports filed with the SEC. 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.

Workday is the registered trademark and Workday Rising is a trademark of Workday, Inc.

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About Saba
Saba  enables organizations to build a transformative workplace that leverages the advent of social networking in business and the ubiquity of mobile to empower an organization’s most mission-critical assets — its people. The company provides a unified set of People Cloud Applications including learning management, talent management, enterprise social networking, and real-time collaboration delivered through the Saba People Cloud. Saba solutions help organizations leverage their people networks to become more competitive through innovation, speed, agility, and trust.