Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. Adopts Saba Centra, Saba Learning and Saba Performance OnDemand to Enhance Talent Management Initiatives

Business Wire,  May 27, 2008  

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Unified Platform Enables Duck Creek to Align Employee Development and Goals with Corporate Strategy

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, today announced that Duck Creek Technologies([R]), Inc., a provider of software solutions to the property & casualty and healthcare insurance markets, is using Saba Centra, Saba Learning and Saba Performance OnDemand to enhance talent management across its organization. With Saba, Duck Creek is able to effectively train its employees and customers regardless of location as well as advance performance management by aligning employee development goals with corporate strategy.

Duck Creek needed a solution that could better help the company manage employee training, online collaboration and performance in an integrated fashion. An OnDemand solution fit with Duck Creek's business philosophy to reduce time and complexity of processes. Saba Learning enables Duck Creek to schedule live classes, provide online classes and define curricula--including new hire training, skills training and training for Duck Creek's EXAMPLE Platform([R]) solution. Today, the company offers more than 100 Web-based training modules. In addition to its employees, Duck Creek has trained customer learners in multiple locations. Duck Creek also uses Saba Centra as its online, real-time meeting and training tool. With Saba Centra's tight integration to Saba Learning, Duck Creek is able to record content for playback within Saba Learning and also convert recordings for use in Web-based training.

"The Saba Solution has helped us to exponentially increase the training that is available to employees and customers and has brought a consistency to our performance processes that enable our senior management to improve alignment between individual and corporate goals," stated Doug Roller, CEO for Duck Creek Technologies. "By adopting a unified, OnDemand solution from Saba, we are able to turn on new functionality easily and will be able to link all aspects of our talent management process together to enhance organizational productivity. Moreover, Saba has provided us with consulting and support resources who have partnered with us to ensure our success."

Duck Creek also implemented Saba Performance in just three months to improve the administration of performance management plans for its employees. Saba Performance has streamlined Duck Creek's annual and 90-day review cycles, providing employees with the access they need to view corporate and team objectives and manager goals anytime as well as the ability to develop individual goals. Saba Performance provides Duck Creek with a review cycle process where employees are rated on consistent competencies and management can align individual goals and corporate goals in response to changing market or business conditions. Since implementing Saba Performance, the company has experienced several benefits, including a reduction in employee time to complete the performance management process and improved visibility through enhanced reporting capabilities.

"Duck Creek is a great example of how our customers of all sizes are able to take advantage of a unified, best-in-class solution to align workforce goals with organizational strategy, develop their people and incorporate collaboration to create a high-performance organization," said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO for Saba. "We look forward to continuing to deliver OnDemand solutions that provide our customers with the latest people management innovations as well as a fast path to implementation."

About Duck Creek Technologies, Inc.

Duck Creek Technologies is a software and services company that is changing the rules of the insurance business by accelerating the ability to achieve the industry vision of "Product in a Day". The EXAMPLE Platform([R]) enables insurance carriers to rapidly define, develop, deploy, and manage their insurance products and services--for any line of business. Duck Creek's customers use the Platform's flexible Service-Oriented Architecture for product definition, rating and underwriting, submission processing, policy management, and legacy migration. Founded in 2000, it is headquartered in Bolivar, Missouri, and has offices in Farmington, Connecticut, and Columbia, South Carolina. For more information, visit its website www.duckcreektech.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 1,300 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.