Oct. 29, 2009 (Business Wire) -- Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, announced at People 2009-Saba Global Summit the winners of this year's Customer Excellence Awards, which honor organizations who demonstrate innovative use of Saba products resulting in excellent business or humanitarian outcomes.
The winners include:
Project HIV Online Provider Education (HOPE), a program of the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research - Humanitarian Award
Project Hope provides bi-monthly web-based conferences using Saba Centra for collaborative learning and the exchange of ideas regarding challenging cases. The project enables clinicians to provide important up-to-date information about treating HIV to clinicians in overwhelmed and underserved areas, like KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. www.hivconsult.org
NetApp - Business Impact Award
NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) increased ease-of-use and accountability by consolidating on Saba Learning as their single LMS, from three legacy systems, resulting in significant cost savings for the company. Support costs decreased by 65%, and operational efficiency and learning accessibility improved immensely, resulting in dramatically increased enrollments. This year, NetApp University received the company's top award (Total Customer Experience Award) for being instrumental to the company's success.
Brinker International - Knowledge, Community & Collaboration Award
Brinker International, the parent company of Chili's Grill & Bar, Maggiano's Little Italy, and On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina, streamlined the tracking of required certifications and enhanced their learning programs through the deployment of Saba, making e-learning a practical and reliable tool for the company for the first time. In all, 1,600 managers were trained on new government-mandated documentation processes. The company leveraged Saba Collaboration to connect people over distances and support informal learning and knowledge-sharing.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Academic Award
An OnDemand, Saba Learning customer, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, uses Saba to deliver courses that support ten graduate distance education degree programs and three graduate certificate programs. Additionally many faculty who teach face-to-face classes use Saba Centra as a supplemental collaboration tool to offer virtual office hours, to pre-record lectures, or to archive live class sessions that can be made available for student review.
“Saba's customers are leaders in creating people-driven organizations based on close collaboration, and we're honored to work with all of them to further their achievements," said Andrew Salzman, chief marketing officer at Saba.
