Saba Unveils Hyper-Connected Talent Development Roadmap

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, Sept. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - At its annual customer conference today, Saba Software, the talent development company, unveiled its hyper-connected talent development roadmap, featuring new innovations and future vision for its award-winning Saba Cloud and Saba TalentSpace solutions.

New capabilities, including connected platform advancements, connected experiences and connected insights are designed to address three critical workplace realities:

    --  Today's HR and business leaders need complete talent development
        solutions that better leverage capabilities and data across products and
        systems, and seamlessly connect to and leverage a broader ecosystem of
        applications - whether that's learning and skills content, core HR
        systems, or other business productivity applications,
    --  At the same time, today's employees demand an experience that lets them
        drive their own growth and development, with a clear line of sight into
        their career trajectory as well as visibility into how they're connected
        to the larger goals and purpose of the organization,
    --  And because the true outcome of strong talent development programs and
        experiences is improved business impact, organizations need
        cross-application intelligence and insight in order to connect people
        development with value creation for the business.

"Saba is an example of an organization that's setting out to connect the dots in talent, by leveraging its deep expertise in learning, performance and engagement, and now the exponential power of that combination," said Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer, Brandon Hall Group. "Its vision demonstrates a fresh look at the talent development environment; one that has the analytics horsepower to deliver the business insight HR leaders need to align people development programs with business performance outcomes, while at the same time, providing more freedom and autonomy to people, teams and managers - through a continuous learning, coaching and engagement experience that's personalized to both their development preferences and career growth aspirations."

CONNECTED PLATFORM: New innovations that support Saba's vision for an open talent ecosystem

    --  Enhancements to Saba Cloud's extensible platform architecture. In
        addition to the company's "content your way" expansion announced earlier
        this month, the platform now connects learning and performance programs
        to employee motivation, with new in-app rewards and recognition via Saba
        Rewards Store, custom rewards capabilities and new Tango Reward Card
        connector.
    --  Learning and collaboration in the flow of work. The Saba Cloud for
        Salesforce connector now allows organizations to apply talent
        development activities within the customer relationship management tool
        sales teams use most. With the connector, sales teams and leaders can
        access and assign relevant learning content in the moment of need,
        easily collaborate with their deal teams, and improve sales performance
        and effectiveness through skill development - all without having to
        leave the Salesforce application.
    --  Full talent development mobility. The latest release of Saba TalentSpace
        brings the complete performance and development experience to the Saba
        TalentSpace mobile app. New capabilities in mobile enable employees,
        teams and managers to learn, grow, coach, motivate and reward -
        virtually anytime, anywhere.

CONNECTED EXPERIENCE: New innovations that turn learning and performance management into continuous growth coaching

    --  Agile and aligned performance feedback. With all the performance power
        of Halogen now available inside Saba Cloud, the latest release of Saba
        Cloud Performance delivers people, teams and managers simple and
        accessible, including 1:1 agenda creation, and all the on demand check
        in and feedback tools they need to turn a top down learning and
        performance process into an agile development, coaching and feedback
        experience. In addition, Saba Cloud now provides the complete
        interlinking of goals, skills, competencies and learning activities,
        ensuring people development is always in step with the value creation
        goals of the business.
    --  Performance in a network of teams. Saba TalentSpace now enables users to
        personalize Team views to include coaches, mentors and expert peers they
        collaborate with across the organization. This capability empowers users
        to connect more naturally with the people in the organization and
        improve their development experience with expanded sources of coaching
        and feedback. This capability is offered through the desktop version as
        well as the Saba TalentSpace mobile app, where users can connect with
        teammates with just one click.

CONNECTED INSIGHTS: New innovations that accelerate business performance

    --  In-field feedback and insights. New Customer Surveys for managers make
        it easier than ever for business and team leaders to solicit in-field
        feedback from their teams on any topic, from right within the talent
        platform. Pulse Surveys deliver instant insight into areas such as
        talent program effectiveness, team engagement and skill development gaps
        and enable leaders to make improvements to talent development programs
        in a highly prescriptive manner. Once enabled, administrators can give
        managers the ability to launch and access their own surveys to
        understand employee sentiment, hotspots or areas for improvement.
    --  More visibility for secondary managers. Saba TalentSpace now offers
        improved reporting access for "leader" roles in non-traditional
        organizational structures. Team and project leaders, secondary managers
        and other leader types within the system now have more flexibility,
        autonomy and visibility into critical talent development metrics to
        support their team's performance and growth.

"The foundation of Saba's new approach and vision for talent development is all about helping our customers create a new talent experience for their people, and more value for their organizations," said Karen Williams, EVP Product Strategy and Customer Success at Saba. "And as always, we're excited to be designing this new experience in partnership with some of the most innovative talent leaders in the world - our customers."

About Saba
At Saba, we know that the success of any business starts with its people. We also know that people need a different kind of environment to bring their best to work every day. So we created that environment - one that's built on strategy, aligned to goals and designed for humans. An environment where people and teams are in the driver's seat of their own experience. Where development is part of their day, every day. And where deep performance insight connects people to business success. Thousands of customers worldwide, in virtually every industry, count on Saba to engage their people, connect their teams, and get the critical insight they need to prove the impact of talent on business success. Saba. The Talent Development Company. For more information, visit?http://www.saba.com.

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