Data Sheet
What’s New in Saba Centra 7.7
Saba Centra is the premier Web conferencing
solution on the market today, enabling globally
dispersed employees, customers, and partners
to learn, interact, and exchange knowledge
online, in real time.
Saba Centra is introducing a number of powerful
new capabilities to enhance real-time learning,
enable rapid knowledge sharing, and facilitate
day-to-day collaboration.
Saba Centra 7.7 has four key areas that continue
our product vision and execution leadership:
New Saba Centra Web Access — leader
functionality
New Saba Centra for iPhone and iPad 2.0
Platform enhancements
Expanded telephony options
Functional Enhancements
Saba Centra Web Access Enhancements
Saba Centra Web Access is one of the most lightweight web conferencing
clients on the market. With fast launch time, high performance and
scalability, and superior HD VoIP quality, Saba Centra Web Access meets
global web conferencing needs without requiring the user to run a dedicated
application on the desktop.
This release of Saba Centra adds support for leader and co-presenter
functionality in Saba Web Access. Users can join events as leaders or
co-presenters using the browser client.
Leaders and co-presenters can import content into the session when
leading an event in Saba Centra Web Access.
Leaders and co-presenters can give microphone other participants,
promote to co-presenters, and perform other leader-specific tasks such as
initiate recordings and Video display.
Leaders can initiate desktop share via Saba Centra Web Access.
Saba Centra Web Access offers a meeting panel with
collapsible portlets that offer emoticons, audio and
video support, text chat, and meeting management.
Data Sheet n What’s New in Saba 7.7
Putting a face to the name and voice helps get the message
across better and increases the collaborative experience.
Starting with this release, Saba Centra Web Access supports
a single video stream. The video controls are displayed to the
presenter, who can choose between displaying the presenter’s
video or displaying the video of the participant who is currently
speaking.
Saba Centra Web Access supports auto-scaling of slides,
images, and application share to adjust to the size of the
participant’s browser window. When the media panel is
resized, the content is resized accordingly.
Saba Centra Web Access includes support for leading proxy
servers such as Bluecoat, Microsoft ISA, and Apache proxy
server. The Saba Centra Web Access client also offers support
for secure sessions with complete 128-bit SSL encryption of
all communication between the browser and the server.
Saba Centra Universal App for iPhone and iPad
To further support the mobile workforce, Saba Centra is
releasing a unified client application for iPad and iPhone. In
addition, significant improvements have been made to the
Saba Centra iPhone client application in this release.
Saba Centra 2.0 for iPhone/iPad makes a great Web
conferencing session even better with easier setup, session
access, and content-viewing options. In addition, there are
many new features:
Support for VoIP audio with HD voice
Secure access (via SSL)
Playback of Saba Centra recordings
Guest access to regular and secure Saba Centra sessions
Chat with participants and presenters while in the session
The Saba Centra Universal App is available for download from
the Apple iTunes store.
Saba Centra for iPhone with pinch and zoom capability.
Saba Centra for iPad welcome screen.
Telephony Enhancements
Saba Centra Telephony Integration (CETI)
Starting with this release, Saba Centra has added support
for integrated telephony in Saba Centra events. Saba Centra
Enhanced Telephony Integration (CETI) allows customers
to manage the audio portion of their meeting from within
the Saba Centra interface, providing a truly seamless user
experience. When configuring CETI, one can choose to allow
leaders, presenters, and participants to request to be called
back by the Audio Conferencing System upon entering the
Saba Centra event and automatically be invited into the
teleconference without entering any access code. Callback
numbers can be set in the user profile or can be set/updated
when in the Saba Centra session prior to initiating callback.
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