Solution to Enable Organizations to Capture Knowledge and Connect People to Expertise to Foster Innovation and Increase Productivity
HRchitect featured Saba in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management.
Saba Software, Inc., the premier people management software and services provider, this week unveiled a breakthrough enterprise social networking platform—Saba Social. Built on Saba’s unified platform, Saba Social uniquely combines a rich person profile and competency framework with real-time collaboration and comprehensive social networking tools to capture knowledge and connect people with expertise. Saba Social is designed to enable organizations to engage employees, partners and customers more effectively, build connected corporate communities, and accelerate high-quality knowledge exchange and information flow to foster innovation and increase productivity.
Enterprises are increasingly interested in applying key concepts that have emerged in the Web 2.0 evolution of the consumer Internet—user-generated content, collective intelligence and social networking—to extend the value of traditional people management processes already in place within their organizations. The rich information tracked in a unified people management system—skills, job experience, education and career interests—provides a necessary context for effective social networking within an enterprise. With increased visibility into people’s informal contributions, organizations can drive more informed decisions about how to manage and enable their talent.
Saba Social is designed to extend Saba’s proven collaboration solutions by making informal knowledge capture and sharing more engaging and effective, as well as by providing visibility into people’s informal contributions. By tightly integrating Saba Social with Saba Centra, real-time collaboration and Web conferencing will be linked to social networks, providing users with “always on” collaboration and presence. Saba Social will enable users to view rich profiles of session attendees, create connections and build robust knowledge networks to quickly and easily create, discover, rate and share a wide variety of content, including Saba Centra recordings. Saba Social will also offer powerful search capabilities to locate expertise as well as formal and informal learning assets located within the Saba Knowledge Base.
For more information, please visit www.saba.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
