REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Saba , a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, today announced that Novartis Farmaceutica, the Mexican division of Novartis Group, a world leader in the research and development of products to protect and improve health and well-being, has launched Saba’s Enterprise Learning Suite to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of its training program.
Prior to deploying the Saba solution, Novartis Farmaceutica had no online training program available and no learning management system. The use of in-person and paper-based processes made training costly, time-consuming and difficult to manage. By implementing Saba Learning, Novartis Farmaceutica consolidated all of its training-related data into a single database, making it possible to track training and development needs while reducing the time and money involved.
“Saba has not only improved the administration and implementation of our training by making everything from enrollment to deployment much faster and easier, but it has also delivered quantifiable results,” said Karina Rodriguez, training leader for Novartis Farmaceutica. “Before Saba, it took us up to 200 hours and about $5,000 to set up a training course. Since implementing Saba, we are able to set up a training course in only five hours for about $60.”
Saba Learning is ideally suited for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries because of the system’s strong compliance support and robust certification management features such as audit trail, e-signature tracking and automatic e-mail reminders to employees and managers when a certification is due for renewal. Saba’s solution helped Novartis Farmaceutica comply with government training regulations and improve its ability to report information both internally and externally.
Saba’s strong collaboration features, such as communities of practice, collaboration services and centralized knowledge repository, are also desirable to healthcare companies, which operate in a fast-paced innovative environment that relies on real-time, interactive communications. Saba’s solution has enabled Novartis Farmaceutica to develop and maintain internal communities through which participants can share information and discuss issues.
“Like Novartis in North America, we use the Saba system to improve the skills, knowledge and productivity of employees. The Saba solution supports our core values of building an exciting workplace in which people can realize their professional ambitions and where cutting-edge technologies are applied,” Rodriquez said.
“Saba is proud to serve many of the world’s top companies in the pharmaceutical and healthcare arena,” said Bobby Yazdani, CEO and Chairman of Saba. “We are pleased that Novartis, which is making a tremendous impact with its public health education and research initiatives, has selected Saba to educate its own employees.”
In addition to Novartis, Saba’s healthcare customers include Hill-Rom, Kaiser Permanente, Pfizer and Siemens Medical. For full case studies on how healthcare companies like Novartis and Kaiser Permanente are using Saba, please go to: http://www.saba.com/customers/case_studies/index.htm.
About Saba
Saba is a leading provider of integrated Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. Saba enables The Aligned Enterprise(TM) by aligning goals, developing and motivating people, and measuring results -- driving greater organizational performance.
More than 10 million current users in over 30 countries use Saba today. Customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, BMW, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko’s, Insurance Australia Group, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Scotiabank, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Swedbank and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Saba has 20 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.saba.com or call (+1) 877-SABA-101 or (+1) 650-779-2791.
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