Saba CENTRA User Manual

Data Sheet

Saba Centra

Benefits

 Reduce your total collaboration costs:

online meetings, virtual training, and webinars
in one integrated platform

 Eliminate Web conferencing failures: a proven

enterprise-class solution designed to operate
in a global environment

 Connect your people more effectively, from

anywhere, with a wide range of flexible clients
including iPhone, Web browser,
and desktop

 Increase the effectiveness of your education

initiatives with integration into your LMS system

 Tailor the implementation to meet the needs

of your organization with on-premise/private
cloud and OnDemand/public cloud options

Features

 Easy, highly intuitive user interface

 iPhone, Web browser, and desktop clients

 Easy-to-use agenda builder

 Meeting management tools that promote

active participation

 Simplified recording, editing, and off-line

delivery of meetings and classes

 Full support for breakout rooms

 Unified conferencing: Saba Centra VoIP fully

integrated with your teleconferencing service
of choice

 Support for rich multi-media including Flash,

Shockwave, JavaScript, animated GIFs, and
streaming audio/video

 Integration with Microsoft Outlook and Instant

Messenger

 Rich APIs and off-shelf adaptors

 Choice of audio codes to manage

bandwidth needs

Saba Centra Enterprise Web Conferencing is an integrated collaboration
platform that delivers the most cost-effective online meetings on the market,
a virtual classroom from the leader in e-learning, and webinars that simplify
audience participation and maximize the impact of every event.

Video, application sharing, whiteboarding, text chat, surveys, polling, and markup
tools...interactivity keeps sessions lively and participants engaged.

Engage With Your Worldwide Team Quickly and Easily

Information-rich toolbars and menus let users know instantly what they
need to do. The user interface mirrors a face-to-face meeting and gives
you the ability to raise your hand, applaud, laugh, and respond yes or no
to a question. Rich multimedia and multiple video views enrich the meeting
experience. Saba Centra Where You Work enables seamless integration
with instant messaging, email, calendaring, and Microsoft Office applications
to simplify user adoption. Saba Centra is available in 13 languages.

Emoticons drive interactivity
and participant engagement.

Lower Your Cost to Collaborate Globally

Telephony can be one of the most expensive components of Web
conferencing, and one of the biggest opportunities for savings. By
providing a choice of leading-edge audio codecs, Saba Centra delivers the
highest-fidelity VoIP on the market tuned to meet bandwidth needs. With
high-quality, free VoIP from Saba as a viable alternative, customers can
dramatically reduce Web conferencing telephony charges.

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Connect Your Mobile Users

iPhone users can now take advantage of the strength and
breadth of Saba Centra to collaborate with their extended
community from anywhere. By downloading the free Saba
Centra on the iPhone application from the Apple iTunes App
Store, the iPhone becomes a Saba Centra client with all the
capabilities of a Saba Centra participant.

Editing recordings is simple and fast.

Teach Virtual Classes More Effectively

Delivery of meeting content is simplified with the capability
to easily drag and drop presentation materials, in multiple
formats, into a meeting agenda that can be saved and reused.
Instant sharing of applications, real-time creation of polls
with instant results, easy-to-use whiteboard and markup
tools, export of presentations to PDF, and online evaluations
and testing all make Saba Centra virtual classes as effective
as face-to-face sessions. Recordings can be easily edited
and there are no additional charges or expensive editing
applications necessary. To minimize the challenge of managing
recordings, these can be stored for easy access and reuse.
URL links from the live session persist in the recorded version,
and graded tests and evaluations are functional. With off­the-shelf integration into Saba Learning, customers can get a

solution to support all e-learning needs. Saba Centra supports
accessibility requirements such as U.S. Section 508.

Find New Customers, Globally

Generate excitement about your offerings with a webinar
environment that encourages people to participate. Instant
surveys, hand raising, laughter and applause emoticons,
real-time application sharing, and extensive markup tools
lead to interactive sessions that your prospective customers
remember. With Saba Centra’s advanced webinar capabilities,
you can accelerate new sales processes or more effectively

build loyalty with your existing

customers.

Give IT the Tools to Better
Manage Web Conferencing

Optimized for both on-premise/
private cloud and OnDemand/
public cloud implementations,

Saba Centra is designed to meet
enterprise standards for security, scalability, redundancy, and
availability. Its modular architecture helps you easily scale your
Web conferencing infrastructure to support your changing
needs. The domain structure simplifies implementation
and management. Cost center and domain usage reports
simplify charge-back processes. Broadcasts can be tuned
to the available bandwidth. Compression can be adjusted
in real time, while in a session. Integration into your current
application environment is simplified with Saba Centra
Web Services, standards-based APIs that enable third­party applications to access the integration, reporting, and
management capabilities of Saba Centra remotely through a
Web Services interface.

For over a decade, Saba Centra has helped millions of
customers increase efficiency and reduce costs through
better collaboration. Trust Saba Centra Enterprise Web
Conferencing to increase the power of your people to build
competitive advantage.

Saba n Power Up Your People

Saba is the premier provider of people systems that enable today’s people-driven enterprises. By combining learning, people management and collaboration
technologies, Saba delivers solutions that help mobilize and engage people to drive new strategies and initiatives, align and connect people to accelerate the
ow of business, and cultivate individual and collective knowhow to achieve exceptional results.

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