Gaurav Mehra Managing Director, Saba Software

Saba offers people management solutions that include:

* Learning Solutions 
* Real-Time Learning and Collaboration Solutions 
* Performance Solutions 
* Talent Solutions 
* Compensation Solutions 
* Learning Solutions – Provide comprehensive learning management systems for identifying, managing, developing, and measuring the capabilities and knowledge of people throughout an enterprise, in order to maximize their contribution to the organization’s goals and performance. 
* Saba Learning Suite – Comprehensive enterprise learning management capabilities provided on-premise, hosted, or subscription-based to enable organizations to develop and implement sales and channel readiness, channel certification, customer education, regulatory compliance, and corporate university programmes. 
* Real-Time Learning and Collaboration Solutions – Facilitate interactions throughout the extended enterprise, including knowledge transfer in conjunction with formal or informal initiatives, including learning events, allowing the organization to build and manage communities of interest and practice. 
* Saba Collaboration – Facilitates knowledge transfer and high-impact informal learning between individuals and subject-matter experts. 
* Saba Centra Suite – Live and virtual classroom training, as well as collaboration, web meetings, and tight integration to Saba Learning Suite. *Performance Solutions – Enable organizations to continuously align individual’s activities with key organizational goals and establish a relevant performance review process that clarifies expectations, measures results, increases accountability, and identifies actionable improvements. 
* Saba Performance Suite – On-premise, hosted, or subscription-based solutions which provide the ability to track and manage the performance of both individuals and organizations. 
* Talent Solutions – Enable organizations to reduce risk by proactively planning for successions, as well as identifying, developing, tracking and measuring future leaders. 
* Saba Talent Suite – On-premise, hosted, or subscription-based solutions that enable organizations to identify, develop, track and manage future leaders as well as reduce organizational risk through proactive succession management. *Compensation Solutions – Drive better decision-making, incentivize the right behaviour and increase the retention of both top performers and high potential individuals by utilizing a more informed, talent-based approach to compensation and rewards. 
* Saba Compensation Suite – On-premise, hosted, or subscription-based solutions that enable organizations and individual managers determine the best way to spend their compensation budget and analyze subsequent impact on performance and talent optimization. This ensures key compensation and reward decisions are based on a complete view of the individual’s performance, potential and development progress. 
* Foundation Solutions – Built on a common, enterprise-class foundation, the Saba Enterprise products share a common repository of people information, business objects, and competencies, providing seamless integration among the products. The common foundation makes Saba Enterprise easier to deploy by allowing you to choose which components your organization needs today, and allowing you to build a seamlessly integrated solution as your business needs change or grow. 
* Saba Foundation – Provides a common repository of people information, business objects, and competencies shared across all Saba Enterprise applications. 
* Enterprise Social Networking – Saba Social is an enterprise social networking platform to connect people to expertise. Saba Social is different because it uniquely combines a rich person profile, competency-driven expertise, real-time collaboration with a comprehensive set of social networking tools. Saba Social enables organizations to build connected corporate communities and accelerate high-quality knowledge exchange and information flow to deliver innovation and productivity

What is the market for HCM? 
In the past, many organizations have relied on human resources infrastructure solutions – such as a human resources information system (HRIS)–– as the tools to automate people processes for improved efficiency and lower costs. Unfortunately, while HR infrastructure solutions do a good job of addressing important administrative requirements – such as payroll, management hierarchy, and benefits tracking – they do not address the more important tasks of developing and motivating individuals, which drives superior productivity and operational performance within your business. This is where a strategic, unified approach to HCM comes to the forefront. Developed to integrate all the tools and processes associated with people and performance, a unified people management strategy aligns the goals of employees and the goals of the company to meet specific, measurable, and realistic business objectives. To maximize return on investment in employee selection and development, smart companies are integrating what have traditionally been separate HR initiatives into a cohesive “hire to retire” unified people management strategy.

How do you find the competition in this space? 
The large HRMS players continue to be a competition on one side. However, these systems are still more transactional. So, there is a need for strategic, unified platform solutions, like Saba, that can help organizations to align their people processes to organizational goals.

How is Saba Software present in the Indian market? 
Saba has 560 employees worldwide spread across five continents. 200 Saba employees are based out of India, working out of offices in Pune and Mumbai. The India sales operations are run out of the Mumbai head office. Saba has partnered with Sify on the ground in India, and their market presence enables us to reach our different markets in India.