Saba Receives “Positive” Rating in Employee Performance Management Software 2007 MarketScope Report by Leading Analyst Firm

Report reflects the growing market trend toward unified people management solutions

Redwood Shores, Calif. – May 29, 2007 – Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, today announced that it has received a “Positive” rating from Gartner, Inc., in the Employee Performance Management Software 2007 MarketScope Report. Saba considers the “Positive” rating as another indication of Saba’s continuing momentum in providing broad people management solutions, including performance and succession management. 

Twenty-eight vendors were evaluated in the Employee Performance Management (EPM) MarketScope, published on May 11, 2007, with the following criteria: marketing strategy, product development strategy, business model, product/service offering, overall viability, sales execution and customer experience. Gartner stated: “EPM (employee performance management) is an important linchpin in an emerging broader suite of talent management applications.” Saba believes this change is a reflection of the growing market trend toward managing employee performance as part of a broader people management strategy.

“We believe our ‘Positive’ rating in the Employee Performance Management Software 2007 MarketScope Report by Gartner, Inc. reflects the significant investment Saba has made in delivering a complete HCM solution to organizations of all sizes,” said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba. “We are pleased that Saba’s vision and our ability to deliver on our value proposition have been recognized, as we are committed to helping organizations take a more strategic approach to managing their most important asset – their people.”
Saba Performance Suite and Saba Talent Suite are part of Saba’s unified solution for people management. Saba’s people management solutions drive organizational excellence by bringing a disciplined approach to aligning, developing and managing people across the entire organization.
Built on a common, enterprise-class foundation, Saba products share a common repository of people information, business objects and competencies, providing seamless integration among the products and unified business intelligence across all strategic people processes. The common foundation makes Saba easier to deploy by allowing companies to choose which components they need today, and allowing them to build a unified solution as business needs change or grow.
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.

 MarketScope Disclaimer

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner “MarketScope for Employee Performance Management Software, 2007” by Jim Holincheck. May 11, 2007

For details, contact
Leena Kamath, Marketing Specialist – +1-650-581-2636 – lkamath@saba.com