Saba Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant in Employee Performance Management Software Magic Quadrant

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—February 5, 2009—Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced that it has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management (EPM) Software.1 The Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their ability to execute and their completeness of vision.

According to the Gartner report, “Visionaries have been advanced in promoting the latest trends (for example, user experience) driving EPM solutions.” The report also notes that, “During client inquiries, we found that customers typically want to buy new EPM solutions to automate their EPM processes, improve the linkage between pay and performance, help support the development of the next generation of leaders in the organization, and/or improve employee/associate retention (and engagement).”

“We consider our placement in the Visionaries Quadrant by Gartner confirmation of the value of providing our customers robust, innovative performance and succession planning solutions that help improve organizational performance and deliver immediate ROI,” said A.G. Lambert, vice president of marketing for Saba. “We believe Saba’s vision and ability to execute is reflected through our continued growth in the employee performance management market as well as our solutions that are being used by more than a million users at some of the largest organizations in the world.”

Saba’s people management solutions help organizations unify formal and informal people management processes to foster innovation, increase productivity, reduce cost, and improve competitiveness. Companies of all sizes choose Saba’s people management platform—Saba Enterprise—on premise or OnDemand to enable their workforce and create a high-performance culture. Through its most recent release, Saba Enterprise 5.4 SP3, Saba continues to advance the value of unified people management processes by enabling organizations to more effectively manage their internal talent pipeline, enhance organizational agility through a new approach to workforce planning, and dramatically increase learning and development capabilities through a real-time plug-and-play content integration framework. In addition, Saba plans to deliver Saba Compensation, a new module that will enable organizations to drive compensation decisions that are linked to talent and workforce planning strategies, in summer 2009.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted February 3, 2009, by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation 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 Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Saba
Founded in 1997, Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier global provider of strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services. Saba’s people management solutions are used by more than 1,300 organizations and over 17 million end-users worldwide. Saba’s solutions increase organizational performance by aligning workforce goals with organizational strategy; developing, managing, and rewarding their people; and improving collaboration.

Saba product offerings address all aspects of strategic HCM and are available both on-premise and OnDemand (www.saba.com/products). To ensure long-term customer success, our global services capabilities and partnerships provide strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.

Saba customers include Alcatel-Lucent; Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ; BMW; Caterpillar; CEMEX; Cisco Systems; Daimler; Dell; Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; EDS, an HP company; EMC Corporation; FedEx Office; Insurance Australia Group; Kaiser Permanente; Lockheed Martin; Medtronic; National Australia Bank; Novartis; Petrobras; Procter & Gamble; Renault; Royal Bank of Scotland; Scotiabank; Singapore Ministry of Finance; Sprint; Standard Chartered Bank; Stanford University; Swedbank; Tata Consultancy Services; Wyndham International; Weyerhaeuser; Underwriters Laboratories; and the U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, U.S. Department of Treasury/Internal Revenue Service, and U.S. Navy.