HCL Technologies and SABA Team Up to Provide Enhanced IT Services

Leading IT service provider and premier Human Capital Management solutions provider join forces to extend Global Services to customers

Redwood Shores, Calif. and Noida, India, May 2, 2007 – HCL Technologies Ltd. (“HCL”), one of India’s leading global IT services companies and Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, today announced an alliance to strengthen joint offerings for customers.

HCL Technologies and Saba are teaming up to extend their services and relationships throughout Asia Pacific to Europe and North America. The two companies will align marketing efforts to provide coordinated software and IT services to mutual customers in several vertical markets including media & entertainment, healthcare, financial services, retail and hi-technology and manufacturing.

“Teaming up with HCL reinforces and extends our global value proposition,” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba. “Together we can tap into and serve new customers and offer integrated people management and IT solutions. HCL Technologies provides back-end IT services that support Saba’s technology, providing a complete package that many of our customers are looking for.”

“The importance of HCM is top of mind for many global companies today and Saba is able to provide easily integrated and cost-effective solutions,” said Vijay Guntur, Vice President of HCL Technologies. “As a leading IT services provider, we are pleased to join forces with Saba to provide a comprehensive solution to our customers worldwide.”

About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, using a people-centric approach to increase productivity and performance. As a trusted partner, Saba enables the Aligned Enterprise™ for over 1,100 customers in 150 countries by providing an integrated people management system to continuously align goals, develop people, improve collaboration and increase visibility into organizational performance.

Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Scotiabank, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, Wyndham International, Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters Laboratories, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Saba has offices on five continents. For more information, please visit http://www.saba.com or call (+ 1) 877-SABA-101 or (+1) 650-779-2791.

About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is one of India's leading global IT Services companies, providing software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management services and BPO. Having made a foray into the global IT landscape in 1999 after its IPO, HCL Technologies focuses on Transformational Outsourcing, working with clients in areas that impact and re-define the core of their business. The company leverages an extensive global offshore infrastructure and its global network of offices in 17 countries to deliver solutions across select verticals including Financial Services, Retail & Consumer, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Hi-Tech & Manufacturing, Telecom and  Media & Entertainment (M&E). For the quarter ended 31st March 2007, HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries had last twelve months (LTM) revenue of US $ 1.27 billion (Rs. 5,675 crores) and employed 40,149 professionals. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com

About HCL Enterprise
HCL Enterprise is a leading Global Technology and IT enterprise that comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems. The 3-decade-old enterprise, founded in 1976, is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. Its range of offerings span Product Engineering, Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products. The HCL team comprises approximately 44,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 17 countries including 360 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more information, please visit www.hcl.in

Forward-looking Statements
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding Saba’s ability to team with HCL to tap into and serve new customers and offer integrated solutions. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies / entities in which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.

For details, contact

For HCL

Ria Mukherjee
Genesis Burson Marsteller
Tel: +91 9811613864
e-mail: ria.mukherjee@bm.com

For Saba

Michelle Homes, LEWIS PR for Saba
+1-415-992-4400
saba@lewispr.com

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