Saba Development Center Commences Operations In Pune

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    PUNE, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2005--Saba (Nasdaq:SABA), the leading provider of integrated human capital management (HCM) solutions, today announced the commencement of operations at its second development center in India. This center, located in Pune, is expected to employ approximately 60 developers. The initial development center in Mumbai was set up in 1999 and today has over 100 employees.
    Inaugurating the Pune Center, Mr. Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba Software said, "I am delighted that we are expanding into our second facility in India. We have had enormous success with building leading edge technology products in our Mumbai center over the last few years and see India as a strategic base for expanding our technical capabilities."
    Mr. Gaurav Mehra, managing director of Saba Software India Pvt. Ltd., said, "We are delighted that our operations in India have progressed well and are particularly pleased that today our second center is commencing operations in Pune." He added, "We need exceptional technical talent, which is available in Pune, because of its highly developed education infrastructure. Our Pune Center will offer an outstanding opportunity for skilled engineers and developers to work on world-class projects for leading global companies."
    In the knowledge economy, people are the real differentiator. Saba helps global 2000 companies and organizations unlock the potential of their people by providing a fully integrated human capital management system. This system consists of superior learning, performance, talent, analytics, and content management capabilities and utilizes an innovative accountability-based methodology and set of professional services to help organizations achieve peak performance for both individuals and the organization overall. The Saba mission is a simple one: to align, develop and manage an organization's core people processes. In this knowledge economy, the people process imperative has never been greater as organization's need to fundamentally improve their overall productivity, lower their operating and regulatory compliance costs and increase their competitive advantage.
    To further address global organization's people process needs, Saba will soon release its next generation suite of human capital management products. The Mumbai and Pune development centers in India will facilitate Saba's ability to continue to add more depth and value to its industry-leading offerings.

    About Saba

    Saba (Nasdaq:SABA) is the leading provider of human capital development and management (HCDM) solutions, which increase organizational performance through the implementation of a management system for aligning, developing, and managing people. Among the Global 2000, Saba customers include Alcatel, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, EMC Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Procter & Gamble, Union Bank of California and VERITAS Software. Saba has received industry recognition for its solutions, and was recently named again to the leader quadrant position in the Gartner 2004 e-Learning Suite and Learning Management Systems (LMS) 'Magic Quadrants' and was ranked in March by IT industry analyst META Group as a market leader in learning management technology for the third consecutive year.
    Saba is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call 877-SABA-101 or 650-779-2791.

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