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Saba Publisher 10.0 Powers Social Learning in the Extended Enterprise

^{Published on 2011-01-12 05:11:52 - Market Wire}
 

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier provider of people systems, today announced the availability of Saba Publisher 10.0, the latest version of Saba's content creation and publishing tool.

"Saba Publisher 10.0 reaffirms Sabaa™s commitment to supporting the full lifecycle of learning for enterprises by providing products to power all aspects of the learning ecosystem, including social and mobile learning."

Saba Publisher 10.0 includes new capabilities that let any author create and publish compelling, media-rich content, particularly content focused on video and gaming.

New features in Saba Publisher 10.0 include:

• A new "launch pad" starting screen for creating and opening content titles
• New video help agents found on the "Video Tour" tab of the new launch pad
• Added Flash player support feature for MP4 files
• New transition effects
• Configurable Flash animation capability
• Several new additions to Saba Publisher's current inventory of games

The new features in Saba Publisher 10.0 continue to make it easy for authors to share content and collaborate on development projects. Instructional designers and subject-matter experts alike can reuse templates and learning objects easily through access to a shared resource library. Saba Publisher also fully supports mobile templates.

Supporting Quote

aHow do you fully leverage an organization's knowledge? The key is to capture this knowhow through both formal and informal channels. Saba Publisher helps our customers keep learners engaged through a variety of Web 2.0 and social content, including stimulating games, enhanced video snippets, and flash-based animations,a said Laurent Pacalin, senior vice president of people learning, Saba. aSaba Publisher 10.0 reaffirms Sabaa™s commitment to supporting the full lifecycle of learning for enterprises by providing products to power all aspects of the learning ecosystem, including social and mobile learning.a

About Saba Publisher

Saba Publisher is a powerful content creation tool to help organizations share knowledge across the extended enterprise. Part of the[ Saba Learning Suite ], Saba Publisher empowers instructional designers and subject-matter experts alike with its user-friendly interface, which allows nonprogrammers to quickly create professionally designed, media-rich content using drag-and-drop methods to incorporate existing text, media, and graphics. Consequently, users are able to:

• Rapidly develop high-quality, high-value learning courses in-house
• Accelerate knowledge sharing
• Optimize content accuracy and control its consistency

With Saba Publisher, users also can harness the power of community-published recordings from [ Saba Centra Web Conferencing ]. By using Saba Publisher 10.0 and Saba Centra Web Conferencing together, courseware developers leverage a best-in-class virtual classroom in combination with a best-in-class content authoring tool.

Availability

Saba Publisher 10.0 is available as Saba Publisher Standard Edition and Saba Publisher Professional Edition. Saba Publisher Professional Edition provides users with all of the features found in Saba Publisher Standard Edition, plus an editing suite that includes tools to enable additional capabilities such as software and Website simulations.Saba Publisher Standard Edition 10.0 and Saba Publisher Professional Edition 10.0 are both available now.

Supporting Resources:

• Saba Publisher: [ http://www.saba.com/saba-people-systems/learning-suite/publisher.aspx ]
• Follow Saba blogs: [ http://www.saba.com/blogs/ ]
• Follow Saba on Twitter: [ http://twitter.com/SabaSoftware ]

About Saba

Saba (NASDAQ:SABA) provides a new class of people systems that combine people learning, people performance and people collaboration solutions. Todaya™s people-driven enterprises are using Sabaas solutions to mobilize and engage people around new strategies and initiatives, align and connect people to accelerate the flow of business, and cultivate, capture and share individual and collective knowhow to effectively compete and succeed.

Saba's premier customer base includes major global organizations and industry leaders in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, packaged goods, and public sector organizations. Sabaa™s solutions are available in the cloud (both the public and private) and are underpinned by global services capabilities and partnerships encompassing strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.

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.

SABA, the Saba logo, Saba Centra, and the marks relating to Saba products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.