Army goes live with Saba program

REDWOOD SHORES , Calif., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army announced it has gone live with California-based Saba's new Army learning management system.

Saba is a strategic human capital management software and services provider. The Army announced it has implemented the company's Saba Learning and Saba Centra as part of the Army distributed learning system program to leverage a common platform for standardized training throughout the U.S. Army.

Officials say the new programs are also an effort to "offer new functionality to improve organizational productivity and advance e-learning in the field … for more than 2 million Army personnel stationed around the world," the release said.

"By standardizing on a single platform, organizations can advance critical learning initiatives within large, global organizations while simultaneously gaining system efficiencies that help impact organizational productivity," Bobby Yazdani, Saba chief executive officer and chairman, said in a statement.

"The ALMS, release 2.0 builds upon a strong, existing learning foundation and is an impressive implementation that takes advantage of significant feature enhancements from Saba. We appreciate the confidence that the U.S. Army has placed on Saba solutions to support its crucial, real-time learning programs around the globe."

Officials say with the new Saba ALMS, the DLS has established a "single resource for Army leadership to view the progress of training within units and soldiers, enable commanders to more quickly assess soldier readiness and make decisions needed to correct any deficiencies and the capability to implement multiple learning and testing paths," the release said.