Bouygues Construction Uses Saba Centra and Jet Multimedia to Deliver Interactive, Online Meetings and Training

Business Wire,  Feb 26, 2008  

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Web Conferencing and Collaboration Enables Bouygues Subsidiary, Structis, to Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Saba Software (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced that Bouygues Construction, a world leader in building, civil engineering, electrical contracting and maintenance, is using Saba Centra and Jet Multimedia hosting services to deliver online meetings and training for its subsidiary, Structis. By implementing an easy-to-use, robust Web conferencing and e-learning platform, Structis has been able to conduct more effective meetings--reducing training and meeting related travel costs.

Bouygues Construction operates in 60 countries and its subsidiary, Structis, has more than 43,000 employees. Structis originally selected Saba Centra and Jet Multimedia to bring its sales and support teams from different locations together for real-time, online meetings. Saba Centra features--including instant surveys, application sharing, text chat and video--enable Structis to deliver high-quality, interactive meetings that help them to reduce travel costs as well as time out of the office for employees.

"Our sales team in the field meets frequently, so we required a solution that could bring our teams together online without compromising the overall meeting experience," said Frederic Jacquet, project manager at Structis. "Saba Centra and Jet Multimedia provide us with a stable, feature-rich platform that is also easy-to use. Since implementing the solution, our meeting coordination efforts have been greatly reduced and meeting online has proven to be an effective, cost-saving solution for our organization."

Today Structis has expanded the reach and use of Saba Centra to include access to its extended organization of suppliers, clients and partners as well as to share information and train employees in different locations. For example, a Structis partner and Bouygues IT subsidiary, C2S, uses Saba Centra to train 50-60 Structis employees in four locations on business software. Saba Centra also provides Structis with a secure solution where communications are encrypted and all meetings and recordings are password protected.

"Saba Centra is an enterprise-strength solution that makes it easy for employees to meet and collaborate to accelerate business initiatives as well as reduce operational costs," said Marc Andrews, president, international operations at Saba. "We are pleased to see how Saba Centra is being used across Bouygues Construction to advance meeting effectiveness and learning within its organization."

About Jet Multimedia

Jet Multimedia is the European leader in interactive, on-line multimedia services.

Jet Multimedia is an international group, specializing in on-line multimedia, whose activities focus on two areas: - B to B to C: creating, diffusing and promoting contents and services for the general public through telecom operators and television media's audiences - B to B: designing, implementing and managing outsourced IT services for large corporations and administrations. Jet Multimedia is a subsidiary company belonging to the operator Neuf Cegetel. The group was founded in 1989, and was listed on Euronext Paris in 1996. It employs nearly 700 individuals and estimates its consolidated turnover in 2006 at roughly EU270 million.

Jet Multimedia is listed on Euronext Paris Eurolist C - Code: JET - ISIN: FR 000005345. For more information: www.jetmultimedia.com.

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 1,200 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 ABN AMRO, Alcatel-Lucent, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, Caterpillar, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, Daimler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, 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.