Saba Helps BAA Meet Airport Safety Regulations

March 22, 2004 07:15 AM US Eastern Timezone 

Saba Helps BAA Meet Airport Safety Regulations;
World's Leading Airport Company Uses Saba to Meet
Demanding Regulatory and Reporting Requirements 

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22,
2004--Saba (Nasdaq:SABA), the leading provider of
human capital development and management (HCDM)
solutions, today announced that BAA, the world's
leading airport company, has successfully implemented
Saba's Enterprise Learning Suite across seven major UK
airports to help the organization maintain safety
standards, meet complex aviator regulations and ensure
successful airport operations. Since the rollout, Saba
has successfully managed 2.5 million employee entries.



Once a year, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) audits
BAA against strict competency standards for rescue and
firefighting personnel. The standards provide a
detailed role-map with 12 different competencies that
are to be met by all personnel -- from firefighters to
station commanders. The CAA also mandates quarterly
assessments throughout the year, which require audits
and extensive records for all competencies. If BAA
fails to comply, the CAA has the power to close any
given airport at any given time, which could severely
disrupt BAA's yearly management of 127 million
passengers in the UK. 

BAA required a transparent training solution that
provided a systematic method of managing delivery of
all training, while at the same time constantly
assessing the acquisition and application of
knowledge, skills and accredited competencies. BAA
chose Saba Enterprise Learning for its scalability,
ease of use, speed of reporting, and compatibility
with existing IT infrastructure. BAA employees,
including firefighters, are able to get direct access
to the system at any given time via airport
workstations. As David Whittington, Fire Service Group
Training Manager explains, "The firefighters typically
need to log on to check records, determine when
upcoming assessments are due, and begin preparing for
them." 

Saba Enterprise Learning enables BAA to manage and
monitor every aspect of UK-wide training from one
desktop. "Meeting data management and reporting
requirements is a challenging task and Saba Enterprise
Learning enables BAA to ensure our fire service teams
comply with best practice," said Whittington. Without
systems like Saba Enterprise Learning, it would be all
the more difficult to ensure data management and
reporting requirements are met." 

"The need to meet complex regulatory compliance and
reporting requirements are a critical element driving
the broad adoption of enterprise learning solutions
today," said Bobby Yazdani, Saba chairman and CEO.
"Saba is pleased to be able to support the
requirements of BAA and further demonstrate the
critical business value that Saba Enterprise Learning
brings to leading organizations around the world." 

About BAA 

BAA (www.baa.com) is the world's leading airport
company. It owns and operates seven UK airports --
Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Aberdeen, Southampton -- that together handle 127
million passengers per year. It also has a stake in 12
other airports outside the UK. BAA has 11,000
employees around the world. The company was privatized
in 1987. BAA's role is to manage the complex airport
environment in which many different organizations meet
the customers' needs. Safety and security is their
number one priority (screening of passengers and their
hand baggage, airport fire services and fire alarms,
operation of air bridges, taxiways, aprons, runways
and lighting). 

About Saba 

Saba (Nasdaq:SABA) is the leading provider of human
capital development and management (HCDM) solutions,
which increase organizational performance through the
implementation of a management system for aligning,
developing, and managing people. Among the Global
2000, Saba customers include Alcatel, Cisco Systems,
DaimlerChrysler, EMC Corp., Kaiser Permanente,
Medtronic, Procter & Gamble, and VERITAS Software.
Saba has received industry recognition for its
solutions, and recently was named again to the leader
quadrant position in the Gartner 2004 e-Learning Suite
and LMS "Magic Quadrants." 

Saba is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California,
with offices worldwide. For more information, please
visit www.saba.com or call 877-SABA-101 or
650-779-2791. 

Saba, the Saba logo, and the marks relating to other
Saba products and services referenced herein are
either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba
Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.

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