Summer Release

Collaborative Employee Development

Redwood Shores, CA (USA), August 2014 - Saba, a global provider of cloud-based intelligent talent-management solutions, has delivered the latest version of its product. It includes many unique features for more holistic, collaborative employee learning and development.

The summer release of the Saba Cloud, a unified platform of talent-management solutions for finding, training, engaging, and developing employees, supports the new world of work. Specifically, this release delivers better employee development with a broad range of new capabilities that make Saba Cloud smarter, more reliable, and more accessible. 

Smarter: Saba’s machine-learning-based intelligent platform seamlessly augments development, certification, and performance-related plans. Also known as TIM™ (The Intelligent Mentor), it can create a prescriptive set of personalized development activities and auto-generate next steps to keep development on track. Based on a performance review, TIM can recommend mentors, curate courses, and suggest relevant content, all of which can lead to faster advancement of skills and value.

More Reliable: Video proctoring enables secure remote testing and certification. It also has options to do live monitoring, take advantage of video playback, or simply review incident reports to ensure compliance.  This single system assures reliability in assessing your team’s skill-set building.

More Accessible:  Saba’s mobile-first approach to solution design advances with each season’s release. Today, Saba Cloud mobile enables better access to all learning activities, allows instructors to save time by using QR code readers for taking attendance, and ensures that managers can monitor their teams’ progress on goals and learning. Coaching and development are a tap away with full-featured mobile access to badging, messaging, and even video meetings from a mobile iOS or Android device. 

"In today’s modern workplace, measuring productivity and engagement can be challenging; however deriving actionable insights for employee development doesn’t have to be," said Emily He, Chief Marketing Officer, SABA. "These latest additions to Saba Cloud further equip managers with the tools they need to better cater to their workforce, facilitating follow through on the alliance between individuals and the businesses they support."

Businesses worldwide are embracing Saba’s learning-centric approach to talent management, supported by the patent-pending TIM predictive analytics, which taps machine learning to produce personal recommendations, deepen performance assessment, improve internal mobility, and enhance talent development and succession planning. A more meaningful way to ensure employees’ aspirations is aligned with corporate goals.

"Seeing is believing in talent management. Saba has historically done a great job in learning and collaboration," said Mark Smith, CEO of Ventana Research. "We see the advances they’ve made across the rest of the talent suite and are impressed with their great product and customer momentum."