Saba Enters Its Second Decade as a Worldwide Leader in Strategic People Management Solutions



    Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier Human Capital Management (HCM)
    software and services provider, today announced that it has passed the
    10 year mark of continuous business operations with significant global
    momentum. As a pioneer in delivering the first enterprise learning
    management system in 1997, Saba has continuously extended its suite of
    products and services that enables organizations to bring a highly
    disciplined approach to aligning, developing, and managing their
    people. Today Saba's comprehensive people management solutions
    encompass learning, collaboration, performance, and talent management,
    and are used by more than 1,100 customers worldwide. Saba's revenue
    run rate is approximately $100 million.

    "Relatively few enterprise software companies endure for 10 or
    more years as an independent entity," said Bobby Yazdani, Chairman and
    CEO, Saba. "To have reached and surpassed this important milestone is
    a testament to the dedication of all the people at Saba who worked
    hard to achieve this goal. Saba's success over the last decade
    demonstrates the mission-critical importance that organizations
    globally place on the need to align, develop, and manage their people
    to drive organizational excellence. That is the value that Saba
    uniquely delivers to our customers."

    "Saba's ability to deliver superior technology with global
    capabilities positions the company for continued success beyond this
    10-year mark," said Jan Ginneberge, Vice President Learning, Head of
    Alcatel-Lucent University, Alcatel-Lucent. "Working with Saba over the
    past years has been good; we look forward to an even better
    relationship in the years to come."

    Visionary Leader in People Management

    Saba was founded on the core belief that people are the most
    critical, differentiating assets for organizations serious about
    excelling in the global, knowledge-based economy. In previous eras,
    information technology had been applied to data processing and to
    business processes such as customer relationship management. Saba's
    founders saw the need and opportunity to apply technology to strategic
    people processes--not just routine tasks such as payroll and benefits,
    but to developing, aligning, and managing people and enabling them to
    collaborate and share knowledge in order to drive organizational
    success. Saba's vision proved correct, and the company emerged to
    become a leader in today's $3 billion market for "human capital
    management" solutions.

    As the first enterprise software company to enable the management
    of strategic people processes across the extended enterprise on a
    global basis, Saba's track record of industry innovations includes:

    -- First enterprise-class, competencies-based learning system

    -- First enterprise-class integrated learning and performance
    management system

    -- First enterprise-class learning management system unifying
    formal and informal learning.

    World-class Base of Satisfied Customers

    Saba's customer base has grown to more than 1,100 customers today,
    with over 15 million end users spread across 150 countries. Saba is a
    standard platform for many of the largest global organizations,
    including Alcatel-Lucent, AstraZeneca, Cemex, Deloitte, IBM, Novartis,
    Procter & Gamble, 3M, the U.S. Army, and many others.

    "Saba solutions have been instrumental in helping us accomplish
    our training and learning goals," said Larry Green, Vice President,
    Global Marketing & Sales Learning, Novartis. "The company's continuing
    innovations in real-time learning solutions should help us achieve
    even greater benefits. Congratulations and keep up the good work."

    "We wish Saba many more decades of innovation and success beyond
    this 10-year milestone," said Pam Solstad, Manager, Global Employee
    Development, 3M. "Saba's commitment to supporting and developing its
    technology and services helps protect our company's investment in
    their solutions over the long term."

    "Saba has provided an excellent solution, which improves our
    possibilities to ensure and prove compliance training for the rules
    and regulations within the pharmaceutical industry. It is also giving
    the benefit to tailor make training for different roles and is a
    useful tool in our effort in being able to deliver effective learning
    solutions for our staff," said Marianne Falck, Global L&D Project
    Leader, AstraZeneca HR, Global Learning & Development. "Our
    collaboration during our five years has developed and Saba is
    providing valuable support to AstraZeneca."

    Global Company from Day One

    Beginning as a garage start-up, Saba was built from the ground up
    as a global enterprise with the intention of serving organizations on
    a worldwide basis. Early on the company established significant
    engineering operations in India and opened offices in key geographies.
    The company's flagship Saba Enterprise suite supports 23 languages,
    and today Saba has more than 570 employees on five continents, with
    local sales, service and support offices in key and emerging markets.

    Many early customers came from outside the U.S., including Bank of
    Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, DaimlerChrysler, Discovery Health (South
    Africa), National Australia Bank, Petrobras, Standard Bank of South
    Africa, Standard Chartered Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, and
    Telmex. The breadth of Saba's worldwide presence and capabilities to
    implement and support its solutions on a global basis are key
    differentiators that make Saba a preferred partner for leading
    multinational enterprises.

    A Continuing Journey

    "The last 10 years was just the beginning of what we expect to be
    a long and interesting journey," said chairman and CEO Yazdani. "All
    macroeconomic, social, and demographic trends point toward the need
    for organizations to invest significantly more in their most important
    asset--their people--as the basis for organizational success
    transitions from information management to people management. We have
    only scratched the surface of this opportunity."

    Saba's 10 year anniversary will coincide with the launch of a new
    online advertising campaign planned to appear in the Harvard Business
    Review, Forbes, and New York Times. As part of the campaign, Saba also
    is unveiling a new billboard advertisement on Highway 101 in the heart
    of Silicon Valley.

    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(TM) 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 www.saba.com or
    call (+ 1) 877-SABA-101 or (+1) 650-779-2791.

    Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
    meaning of the federal securities laws, including, without limitation,
    statements regarding Saba's future success, increased investment in
    people as the basis for organizational success and Saba's ability to
    take advantage of growing market opportunities. Saba's actual results
    could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking
    statements. Risks and uncertainties Saba faces that could cause
    results to differ materially include risks associated with: Saba's
    dependence on growth of the markets for Saba's products, dependence on
    acceptance of Saba's products by customers and channel partners,
    fluctuation in customer spending, length of Saba's sales cycle,
    competition, rapid technological change, dependence on new product
    introductions and enhancements and potential software defects. Readers
    should also refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors" on pages 11
    through 21 of Saba's Annual Report on Form 10-K dated August 18, 2006
    and similar disclosures in subsequent Saba periodic SEC reports. The
    forward-looking statements and risks stated in this press release are
    based on information available to Saba today. Saba assumes no
    obligation to update them.

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