Saba Advances Talent Management Leadership with New Capabilities in Saba Cloud and TalentSpace Platforms

Shared IP from Saba and Halogen delivers people-centric innovation in ongoing performance, modern learning and real-time engagement

LAS VEGAS, NV, Oct. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ - HR Technology Conference & Exposition — Saba, a leading provider of people-centric talent management solutions, today announced powerful new advances in the latest editions of Saba Cloud™ and Halogen TalentSpace™ platforms, being showcased at the HR Technology Conference & Exposition. The newest releases of Saba Cloud and TalentSpace deliver the first in a series of innovations in performance, learning and engagement following Saba's acquisition of Halogen in May of this year.

Real-time employee engagement comes to TalentSpace

Customers can leverage the unmatched continuous performance management capabilities of TalentSpace through real-time engagement and sentiment analysis with the delivery of Halogen Pulse™. The real-time engagement features first delivered in Saba Cloud platform are now available with the TalentSpace Suite giving customers the ability to use employee sentiment insights to quickly improve their performance and talent programs.

With Halogen Pulse, employees have an easy way to provide confidential feedback about their feelings, opinions and perceptions of the organization and key initiatives. The real-time survey data gives managers and leadership immediate visibility into employee sentiment, allowing them to quickly measure the impact of talent initiatives on employee performance and engagement, and connect them to tangible business value and impact.

"I'm excited about what Halogen Pulse brings to the market because it can help organizations capture valuable feedback about employee engagement on an ongoing basis," said Julie Gray, People Solutions Business Partner, Assiniboine Credit Union. "The ability to create custom pulse surveys and the flexibility to ask questions based on organizational priorities at any given point in time will help HR leaders act quickly based on real-time data about what matters most to employees."

Saba Cloud boosts ongoing performance with enhanced goals, check-ins and competency models

Saba has also applied the insight and design principles from Halogen's industry-leading continuous performance management solution to Saba Cloud. HR leaders, managers and employees now have an easier, more intuitive process for goal setting, weighting and management. Goal weighting and improved goal visibility across teams and projects also streamlines performance check-in within the platform. Halogen's rich competency model, skills library and writing assistant are now also delivered as part of the Saba Cloud performance offering.

Modern learning moves the needle on business impact in Saba Cloud

Rounding out its modern learning platform, the latest edition of Saba Cloud introduces powerful micro-learning and enhanced gamification capabilities to better support personalized, any-time, anywhere learning and drive user adoption. Learn more about the latest learning innovations in Saba Cloud here.

"The innovations we're bringing to market are based on our deep and shared expertise in performance, learning and engagement. They are designed to help talent leaders support their culture and embrace the needs of their people, while driving business impact," said David Mennie, Vice President, Product Marketing and Strategy at Saba. "We know every business is unique, which is why our approach and our solutions are provide the flexibility and agility customers need to do talent management their way."

Media and analysts attending the 2017 HR Technology Conference & Exposition from October 10-13 at The Venetian® Las Vegas are invited to visit booth #1601 to view a demonstration of the latest talent management innovations from Saba.

About Saba

Saba delivers a cloud-based intelligent talent management and engagement solution used by leading organizations worldwide to hire, develop, engage, and inspire their people. With machine learning at its core, Saba Cloud offers proactive, personalized recommendations on candidates, connections and content to help employees and businesses lead and succeed. It is purpose-built on a highly scalable platform that exceeds industry security and reliability standards. Following the acquisition of Halogen Software, Saba is now one of the largest independent talent management providers in the world. For more information, visit http://www.saba.com.

SOURCE Saba Software