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Saba Gets Sociable with New Collaboration Suite
| Jul 9, 2010 | Collaboration Platforms
| Analyst: Brad Shimmin
Product Snapshot
| Product Name |
Saba Collaboration Suite |
| Product Status |
New product integrated with existing solution |
| Product Type |
Both on-premises software and cloud-based service |
| Licensing Model |
Per-seat and per-usage licensing and subscription options |
| New Features |
· Saba Live: Visual page designer/editor for Wiki page creation
· Saba Live: User profiles that contain competencies, skills, interests, and talent
· Saba Live: Expertise location based upon connections and activities via search tool
· Saba Live: Idea generation tool using voting, rating, and tagging
· Saba Live: Performance review enhancement using twitter-styled social feedback
· Saba Live: Microsoft SharePoint integration (federation of information from SharePoint into Saba Live)
· Saba Live: YouTube-like video sharing services as well as recording tools
· Saba Collaboration Suite: Flash-free support for Safari, Firefox, and Explorer across Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
· Saba Collaboration Suite: Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA), a tool designed to visualize connections between users and resources |
| Target Customer |
Global Fortune 100 and upper mid-market companies across vertical sectors including government, education, automotive, finance, pharmaceutical, and utilities |
| Rival Products |
Jive SBS, Cisco Quad/WebEx, Microsoft SharePoint/Live Meeting, Oracle Beehive, IBM Connections/Sametime Unyte |
Current Perspective Excerpt
We are taking a positive stance on Saba's introduction of Saba Collaboration Suite, which will be released globally by the end of August 2010 as an in-cloud solution. An on-premises offering will follow shortly. Coupling Saba's mature and successful Web conferencing/e-learning solution (Saba Centra) with its emerging social networking platform (Saba Live), Saba Collaboration Suite extends the company's established heritage within enterprise learning, conferencing, and talent management to embrace social software. More than that, though, it makes Saba relatively unique within the broader collaboration market as a vendor capable of melding transient and persistent conversations.
The company's portfolio of collaboration features now bundles groups, blogs, wikis, and file sharing together with e-meetings, IM/presence, virtual classrooms, and Web seminars. This creates a combined solution that melds real-time collaboration functions with long-running community capabilities. Larger rivals within the collaboration space such as IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco have lately undertaken similar efforts to combine Web conferencing and social networking functionality. These efforts, however, do not match Saba's bundling/packaging efforts with Saba Collaboration Suite in terms of delivering a unified solution that can run across both private and public cloud configurations. (continued)
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Current Perspective
Evaluation Criteria
- Services/Support
- Packaging/Pricing
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Product Maturity
- Market Presence
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