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Increasingly, today’s employees “workshift.” That means they work from anywhere, anytime. Furthermore, they and their supervisors now demand more control over managing and developing their careers.

These human capital management trends make the IHRIM 2012 HRMS Strategies Conference and Technology Expo, April 30-May 3, Chicago, with more than 58 educational conference and pre-conference sessions, such a marquee event for HR systems learning.

Citrix Senior Director of Global HRIS and Metrics Rich Berger agrees. “There’s no better place to meet leading HRIS providers than IHRIM,” he says. During the conference, Berger will present a compelling case study, “Manage Talent from Anywhere—Mobile and Cloud Come Together for Citrix.” In it, he will detail how Citrix implemented a robust talent management solution, helping a mobile workforce plan and track talent needs 24x7x365 by leveraging mobile devices (such as iPads) and remote access to corporate talent information, recruiting activities and other mobile apps—all from the cloud.

Expect Berger, a long-time user of HumanConcepts workforce visualization solutions, to drop by our booth (#810) during IHRIM. Learn from a master how combining application-driven software with established business processes and a cloud computing platform can transform a workforce while simultaneously delighting employees and managers.

The latest Bersin & Associates research tells us businesses are struggling to adapt quickly to change and are facing challenges within their HR and Learning departments. Not only are companies unable to keep up with the rate of change, they are losing business opportunities and revenue.

At IMPACT 2012, April 10-13 in St. Petersburg, Florida, we’ll share our own perspective on how companies can better manage organizational change, using HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite. Of note, this will be the first show we share an official table with our parent organization, Saba.

HumanConcepts Director of Marketing Programs Katy Colletto is a champion of IMPACT 2012, whose theme this year is Building Business Agility through People. “We’re always thrilled to be part of the conference, one of the top gatherings of HR practitioners and analysts. As participants, we gain incredible insight into market dynamics so we can build better solutions to meet our customer needs.”

More About IMPACT 2012

Expect more than 30 practicing corporate leaders to present in-depth case studies showcasing actionable best practices as well as delivery strategies, bottom-line impact and business case rationale. IMPACT 2011 participants included AT&T, Fidelity Investments, UnitedHealth Group, Turner Broadcasting System, Intuit, MasterCard Incorporated, JetBlue Airways Corporation and Merck & Co. See this year’s list.

Bersin & Associates analysts will present the latest research findings in next-generation recruiting, mobile learning, workforce planning, people strategies in emerging markets, talent management analytics—including what Big Data means for HR.

Visit the IMPACT conference site for registration details.

Wonderful news: After 12 years as an independent company, HumanConcepts has been acquired by Saba, based in Redwood Shores, California.

We’re both leaders in helping companies engage, develop and inspire people to transform the way they work and to drive exceptional business results. Combining our strategic organizational planning, talent management, learning, transition management and collaboration expertise will create formidable human capital management synergy.

Our combined organizations will boast more than 2,100 customers. Best of all, joining the Saba family will provide access to their extensive global resources, enabling us to deliver innovative enterprise services to market faster.

Meanwhile, our commitment to our customers and the greater HumanConcepts Community remains clear, unwavering and Priority One. You can expect:

• No interruption to current HumanConcepts service, support and development efforts.
• Enhanced solutions that drive business agility.
• Access to greater industry and technology expertise.
• Continued growth of scalable, SaaS-based solution platforms.

Get to know Saba!

They deliver people-centric, cloud-based learning management, talent management, and social enterprise solutions. Their flagship Unified Talent Management Suite includes comprehensive dynamic people profiling, intuitive visual analytics, state-of-the-art talent reviews and calibration, advanced talent pooling and slating, and unification with their industry-leading Enterprise Learning Suite.

Over the coming weeks, we will communicate and detail additional benefits of this acquisition, a great new chapter in the HumanConcepts story. For now, read the official news release here for more reasons why this will transform our industry.

Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Luis Rivera, President
HumanConcepts, a Saba Company

Companies Combine to Deliver Customers World-Class Solution for Unified Talent Management and Transition Management

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—March 20, 2012—Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, today announced the acquisition of HumanConcepts, a leading organizational modeling and visualization provider. The transaction closed March 19, 2012.

The acquisition signifies Saba’s continued focus on the human capital management (HCM) market and complements its unified talent management offering. Saba plans to integrate HumanConcepts’ unique Cloud technologies into its unified talent management suite to extend the value of Saba’s existing core products.

“Saba and HumanConcepts share a vision for unifying people processes to transform the way we work,” said Bobby Yazdani, founder and CEO, Saba. “The next generation of talent management is about people, not information, and delivering a fundamentally better way to plan, engage, develop and inspire people for competitive advantage.”

“Adoption of HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite continues to accelerate and gain traction in large enterprises,” said Luis Riviera, president, HumanConcepts. “Joining forces with Saba offers an exciting opportunity to revolutionize the HCM market by delivering a powerful interface to visualize, plan and model people and People Networks in a changing world of work.”

“The combination of Saba and HumanConcepts is a positive step forward for customers who want to improve their workforce planning effectiveness to support business performance,” said Mollie Lombardi, research director, human capital management, Aberdeen. “According to our research, visibility into talent, integration of people data, external validation of talent pools and workforce scenario planning are critical to ensuring that organizations have the talent plans to back up their business plans.”

Saba and HumanConcepts Value:

• Business Agility: The joint Saba/HumanConcepts Solution will enable companies to gain the strategic insights they need to adapt quickly to changing marketing conditions.
• One of the largest and best customer communities for strategic organizational and talent management: Besides its proven organizational planning expertise, HumanConcepts will add over 500 valued customers to Saba’s 1600-strong customer base.
• Strategic solutions delivered in the Cloud: Both Saba and HumanConcepts are pioneers in developing scalable platforms that can lower IT costs, support rapid innovation, and continually increase value to enterprises of all sizes.
•  Single end-to-end solution for Strategic Organizational Planning, Talent Management, Learning and Collaboration: The Saba/HumanConcepts Solution will provide the ability to assess organizational health based on comprehensive metrics, collaboratively model, evaluate and plan for change with intuitive visual analytics, and execute on approved plans with talent pooling, succession planning and learning capabilities.
• Ability to manage global complexity for our customers: Both companies solve the challenge of deploying sensitive organizational information and communications on a global scale with process and security frameworks that meet the unique needs of sophisticated and geographically distributed enterprises.

With this acquisition, Saba will embed HumanConcepts’ next-generation features into its existing talent management products and also add elements to its new Social Enterprise Platform—Saba People Cloud—announced today (see “Saba Announces Revolutionary New Social Enterprise Platform”). Customers will be able to leverage a powerful interface to visualize, plan and model people and People Networks in a changing world of work.

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 the expected benefits to Saba of its acquisition of HumanConcepts and the expected benefits to customers of the Saba/HumanConcepts Solution. Saba’s actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties Saba faces in connection with the acquisition and otherwise that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: Saba’s ability to retain customers and to experience high customer renewal rates; integration risks, including risks related to integration of the HumanConcepts’ products, technologies and personnel; assumption of liabilities; 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” in the Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011, and similar disclosures in subsequent reports filed with the SEC. 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.

About Saba

Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) enables organizations to build a transformative workplace that leverages the advent of social networking in business and the ubiquity of mobile to empower an organization’s most mission-critical assets—its people. The company provides a set of people-centric enterprise solutions to various businesses and industries worldwide. Saba delivers cloud-based learning management, talent management, and social enterprise solutions to transform the way people work.

Saba’s premier customer base includes major global organizations and industry leaders in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, packaged goods, and public sector organizations. 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. SABA, the Saba logo, and the marks relating to Saba products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About HumanConcepts

HumanConcepts enables enterprises to better manage organizational change of all types, including growth, rightsizing and reorganization. Using solutions from HumanConcepts, customers can achieve organizational agility, more easily understand how they are organized, plan for the future, and transition the workforce to its optimal state. Used by many of the world’s largest organizations, HumanConcepts solutions provide immediate return on investment by enabling companies to reorganize faster, manage financial targets, stay in compliance, and transition the workforce to its optimal state. The company’s products are certified by leading ERP and talent vendors such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson. HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California, with offices in the United Kingdom and Germany. For more information, visit www.humanconcepts.com.

Press Contact:

Aly Kline
Saba
PR Associate
(650)581-2593
akline@saba.com

Offers Secure, Cost-Efficient Access for Enterprises Adopting HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite SaaS Platform

SAUSALITO, CA—Feb. 17, 2012—HumanConcepts, developer of HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, has opened a new data centre to meet the growing demand by UK and EMEA-based customers for high-quality Software as a Service (SaaS) organizational planning solutions.

Housed in London, HumanConcepts’ new facility will allow European customers to access sensitive enterprise information quickly, cost efficiently and securely while avoiding the internet latency and data privacy challenges often posed by cloud computing solutions.

In 2011, HumanConcepts introduced HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, the next generation of its award-winning OrgPlus Enterprise platform, taking full advantage of the growing trend of moving corporate services to a web-based infrastructure, i.e., the cloud. Built to the highest industry standards for performance reliability, security and 24/7 availability, the Data Center strengthens HumanConcepts’ overall portfolio and marks the next step in its European development.

HumanConcepts CEO Martin Sacks said, “Our new data center underscores our growth and commitment to offering HumanConcepts’ European users advanced organizational planning solutions, able to satisfy complex business requirements.”

By adopting a SaaS implementation, new and current HumanConcepts customers realize considerable benefits. Quick to deploy, HumanConcepts’ web-based solution is easy to use and accessible from multiple channels, including web, enterprise portals and mobile devices. It is compatible with a wide range of browsers, including Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and Firefox in both Windows and Mac OS environments.

“More and more of our users are looking to lower total cost of ownership,” said Sacks. “Our web-based services are ideal for them, requiring no upfront investment or capital expenditure. As many IT departments see staff numbers diminish, moving to a SaaS environment allows users to do more with less. Not only will our new data center provide higher performance, but it will guarantee that EMEA customers gain ultimate protection for their sensitive or mission-critical data in today’s cloud-based environment.”

About HumanConcepts

HumanConcepts enables enterprises to better manage organizational change of all types, including growth, rightsizing and reorganization. Using solutions from HumanConcepts, customers can achieve organizational agility, more easily understand how they are organized, plan for the future, and transition the workforce to its optimal state.

Used by many of the world’s largest organizations, HumanConcepts solutions provide immediate return on investment by enabling companies to reorganize faster, manage financial targets, stay in compliance, and reduce both cost and risk. The company’s products are certified by leading ERP and talent vendors such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson. HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California, with offices in the United Kingdom and Germany. For more information, visit http://www.humanconcepts.com.

Press Contact
HumanConcepts
Katy Colletto
415-275-9178
katy.colletto@humanconcepts.com