Oct. 20, 2009 (Business Wire) -- With economic issues still dominating business concerns, organizations are looking to more quickly and effectively unify, engage, and mobilize their people. Without broad and complete visibility and insight into the people assets across an organization’s value chain, there is an inability to easily and quickly respond to continuously changing business conditions.

To help companies address these challenges, Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, is delivering a major breakthrough in its next release of the Saba platform. Saba 5.5 is designed to help organizations actively manage change by unifying, engaging, and mobilizing their people assets and will represent the most complete people management platform to date.

“With a people-based strategy enabled by Saba, organizations and their entire value chain can operate based on shared goals that are understood and aligned, and can help ensure the right people are engaged in the right places at the right time,” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba. “We know that superior people management is essential for organizational success, and we have collaborated closely with hundreds of our global customers to significantly increase the value of our unified people management platform.”

Saba’s Unified People Management Platform

New advances across people management, collaboration, and social networking in Saba’s Unified People Management Platform are designed to transform how companies meet today's people challenges. Saba enables organizations of all types and sizes to drive better business results through features such as:

• Saba Mobile - mobile services that increase employee efficiency by enabling people to continuously collaborate and learn using their mobile device, no matter where they are.
• Real-time performance feedback - allowing anyone in the organization to submit constant informal feedback that flows directly into the formal performance review process.
• Saba Compensation – unifying rewards management to allow managers to make compensation decisions based on access to the most comprehensive set of people information.
• Best Business Practices – best practice workflows and wizard based processes that deliver unprecedented ease of use and people process efficiencies across the value chain.