New Animated and Interactive Capabilities, Features to Enable Mobile Learning, and Expanded Language Support Available Now in Saba Publisher 9.0

Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced the latest release of its content creation and publishing tool—Saba Publisher 9.0. Available now, Saba Publisher provides content authors with new features that enable rapid content creation and extend the reach of media-rich content to mobile devices—including animated and interactive capabilities, expanded language support, and features to enable publishing to the iPhone and iPod Touch. By making it easy for organizations to create, publish, and reuse content, Saba Publisher can help accelerate content delivery time and enhance the value of e-learning across an organization.

“Effective content creation and integration are critical to expanding access to e-learning anywhere, anytime across an extended enterprise,” said A.G. Lambert, vice president of marketing for Saba. “We are pleased to put this powerful authoring tool—with enhanced content and capabilities for mobile learners—into the hands of subject matter experts and learning professionals to make interactive learning content, quizzes, assessments, and software simulations more effective and impactful in delivering business results.”

Saba Publisher provides organizations with an easy way to author and publish professional content that enhances the e-learning experience—including e-learning courses, presentations, assessments, quizzes, and surveys. With Saba Publisher, both novice and expert-level authors can quickly create professionally designed and media-rich content using easy-to-use, drag-and-drop features to incorporate existing text, media, and graphics files. Through a tight integration with Saba Content Management, Saba’s learning content management system (LCMS), Saba Publisher makes it easy to share content and allow content authors to work together on development projects, and content authors can reuse templates and learning objects easily through access to a shared resource library. With Saba Publisher, users can also harness the power of community-published recordings from Saba Centra, Saba’s Web conferencing and virtual classroom product.