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Three Reasons Why You Should Choose Saba Cloud as Your Next-Generation Talent Management Solution

REASON #1

CREATE A CULTURE OF AGILITY AND INNOVATION

Two out of three CEOs are concerned about finding the right talent to fuel business growth. — PWC CEO Survey, 2014“ ”

TALENT IS ESSENTIAL TO INNOVATE

Building a culture of innovation and agility while managing transformation requires you to have the right people in the right places. It requires a new kind of talent management solution that enables and empowers employees and managers working within a collaborative and productive environment.

Not all talent management solutions are the same. Don’t settle for legacy talent management solutions that fall short in providing engaging user experience, are not fully integrated, and are unable to scale to support new capabilities.

Saba Cloud is the only “predictive” unified talent management platform that brings social, mobile and intelligent innovations for attracting and retaining top talent, while continuously developing your future leaders.

ATTRACT, ENGAGE, GROW, AND RETAIN TOP TALENT WITH SABA CLOUD

Recruiting@Work Hire the Best People

Performance@WorkAlign Teams to Business Initiatives

Learning@WorkQuickly Develop the Right Skills

Planning@WorkReorganize to Seize Opportunities

Collaboration@WorkIncrease Collaboration Across Teams

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Recruiting@Work Performance@Work Learning@Work Planning@Work Succession@Work Collaboration@Work

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Recruiting@Work Performance@Work Learning@Work Planning@Work Succession@Work Collaboration@Work

Succession@WorkBuild a Strong Bench When You Need It

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REASON #2 DEVELOP AND EMPOWER YOUR PEOPLE

EMPOWERMENT IS REQUIRED FOR GOOD LEADERSHIP  

Planning and building an organization with global leadership and bench strength is a top priority for most organizations. The problem today is not shortage of workers, but shortage of skills. Today, most talent management solutions work in siloes and are mostly focused on back-office workflows. 

Your organization needs a world-class cloud talent management platform that can help you unleash the full potential of your people through continuous talent enablement and empowerment in order to develop your next generation of leaders.

Saba Cloud is the only “people-centric” talent management solution that combines goals, machine learning, and collaboration capabilities to develop a high performance culture and ensure business leadership and succession.

CONTINUOUS TALENT ENABLEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT WITH SABA CLOUD

More than 60 percent of all companies cite ‘leadership gaps’ as their top business challenge. — Bersin, 2014“ ”

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A UNIFIED AND SECURE CLOUD TALENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION IS CRITICAL TO MITIGATE RISK

To support the increased demands of today’s modern workplace, it’s essential to have the most flexible and secure talent management cloud-based platform that simplifies integration across other business critical applications like SAP, Oracle, LinkedIn, Workday and Salesforce.com.

Saba makes these integrations super easy through the Saba MarketPlace where administrators can simply drag and drop from a list of pre-configured out-of-the box applications.

No longer should you settle for talent management solutions that lock you in. Saba Cloud is the most extensible, configurable, secure, intelligent, and scalable platform. It’s complemented by Saba’s Expertise@Work agile implementation methodology that helps you get started quickly for faster time to value and increased ROI.

INCREASE BUSINESS AGILITY AND REDUCED RISK WITH SABA CLOUD

REASON #3

REDUCED RISK AND FASTER TIME TO VALUE

SABA CLOUD IS THE MOST...

Secure Platform SSAE-16 SOC 1 Type II certified, AT 101 or ISO 27001 certified, Trusted Member of the Cloud

Security Alliance, and Validated Environment for FDA 21 CFR Part II.

Intelligent Platform Intelligent, Prescriptive

Platform (TIM), Machine Learning, PQ Score, DNA).

Scalable Platform Extensive breadth

and depth in admin capabilities (smart lists, native virtual classroom,

and more).

Extensible Platform MarketPlace with pre-built

Drag and Drop integrations, HRIS Integration, Out-of-the-box

Web Services APIs, Support for Content Standards

(Tin Can, AICC, SCORM).

Easy to Implement Faster time-to-value and

rapid user adoption, strategy consulting,

adoption accelerators, and client success program.

Global and Local Multi-lingual support,

2,200 global customers, 25+ offices worldwide, multiple data centers,

200+ partners, 195 countries, and 24x7 follow-the-sun global and local support.

Improved user experiences, more rapid deployments, and faster time-to-value are the reasons why CIOs and HR leaders prefer the cloud for new HCM investments. — Gartner Group, 2014

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WHY SABA?

SABA CLOUD IS A UNIFIED TALENT MANAGEMENT SUITETHAT ENABLES YOU TO ATTRACT, DEVELOP, GROW, AND RETAIN TOP TALENT

Secure, Scalable, Cloud Infrastucture

Agile ServicesNext-Generation TM Platform

Hire Onboard Reward Manage Develop Depart

Recruiting Performance Learning AssessmentSuccession

PlanningWorkforce Planning Compensation Collaboration

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SELECT THE TALENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION THAT IS RIGHT FOR YOUWe realize there are multiple talent management solutions available today, so what’s a smart buyer to do? Get past the fluff, ask the real questions, and get the facts. Here are some questions to help you identify the right talent management solution for your business needs:

ISSUE QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR TALENT MANAGEMENT VENDOR

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Security and Compliance

Mobile

UserExperience

Intelligent and Prescriptive

System

Customer Care

� How secure is their talent management platform? � Do their data centers meet the most strict security regulations? Are they SSAE–16/AT101 Type II audited, Safe Harbor certified, and either FISMA-Moderate or ISO 270001 certified?

� Do they have a program in place to ensure ongoing validation of rigorous compliance requirements such as 21 CFR Part 11 as applications change?

� Are they ready to support the increased demands of a mobile workforce? If so, how? � Do they offer a comprehensive mobile app to support your organization needs across learning, recruiting, workforce planning, performance, social, and collaboration?

� Does their user interface have a modern design that is easy to use and engaging? � Does it drive team engagement with tools that enable real-time collaboration, integrated dashboards, gamification, unified search, and unified profile?

� Is their system smart enough to provide prescriptive and targeted content recommendations to train, and develop your workforce much faster?

� Does their platform have intelligence capabilities that help you identify the top performers to fill critical roles?

� Are you frustrated with slow response times, and long and expensive implementation cycles? � Would you prefer to be using modern and agile methodologies? Would you like to be assigned an expert to help you with the adoption of your solution once it has been implemented?

Integration

� How well connected are the various pieces of your talent management software? Are there various modules with different user interfaces?

� How well does their platform integrate with HRIS systems and 3rd party applications like SAP, Oracle, Workday, LinkedIn and Salesforce? � Do they make interactions easy by offering a marketplace with pre-configured apps where the admin can drag and drop?

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Saba is a global leader in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management. The company helps organizations transform the way they work by enabling the continuous learning, engagement, and development of everyone in their people network, including employees, partners, and customers.

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