Profile
Who We Are
Safari Books Online, a joint venture between O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, is an e-reference library containing collections of emerging technology books, manuscripts, papers and instructional video.
What We Do
Safari Books Online:
- Enables companies to
- Stay competitive and improve productivity by empowering their workforce with the most current technical reference database for solving everyday technical challenges and learning on the fly.
- Beat the training dilemma by delivering trusted information to solve problems, and advance employee knowledge and technical skills.
- Deliver content and tools to a distributed workforce with anytime, anywhere access to a vast repository of the most current technical and business reference content available in one place.
- Enables users of all kinds to
- Solve Problems - The power of search versus browse. Get comprehensive and relevant answers quickly from across an entire collection of authoritative books and videos.
- Develop Skills - Get expert instruction on web design, software development and graphics tools and techniques using mixed media content sources, like training video and book content by leading experts and in many cases, the technology inventors themselves.
- Research - Benefit from the comprehensive technical resources of Safari Books Online available anytime and from anywhere to solve engineering, design or application problems.
What We Provide
Safari Books Online provides ready-access to fully searchable trusted technical and training content from leading publishers for problem solving, learning and skill enhancement. Rely on us for:
- Authoritative, credible authors.
- Trusted search for relevant, targeted answers from a collection of published, vetted materials.
- Training video, self-study guides, certification study guides.
Who We Serve
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Corporations
- CIO/CTO Officers
- CLO/Learning and Training Management
- IT Management
- Corporate Librarians
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Individuals
- Technology Knowledge Workers: IT professionals, software developers, system administrators, telecom professionals, tech support, professional services.
- Creative Professionals: Web designers, photographers, graphic artists.
- Leadership and Management: People who need business and management tools and expert advice.
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Academia
- Academic and public librarians.
- Educators, scholars and researchers.
History
In July 2001, two of the world's most prominent technology publishers, O'Reilly Media, Inc. and the Pearson Technology Group, joined forces to create Safari Books Online. The premise was simple: Compile the best technology books from the leading authors and publishers into an online database that IT and programming professionals could quickly and easily search for reliable, definitive answers to mission-critical questions.
The result has been extraordinary. Safari's flagship service, Safari Tech Books Online, immediately exceeded all expectations, selling site licenses to Fortune 50 companies, major universities, and leading training organizations worldwide. Faced with increasing customer demand for more content covering a wider range of subject matter, Safari tapped into the vast repositories of its venture partners and many other respected publishers to expand its product line.
Safari's customers are hungry to learn and come to Safari Books Online for immediate access to the latest on emerging technologies from the innovators and inventors themselves. In 2006, Safari launched three new publishing mediums designed to accelerate information to its subscribers: Rough Cuts, Short Cuts and video.
- The Rough Cuts service enables authors to publish their working manuscripts on Safari. This program gives the Safari community early access to pre-published information and allows the authors to interact with their readers for feedback as the book develops.
- The Short Cuts service is another publishing medium in Safari that accelerates information to its subscribers. Short Cuts are deep concise works by Safari authors, generally under one hundred pages in length, and only found in digital format.
- Instructional video now complements Safari's immense repository of published works. Videos from lynda.com and other Safari publishers deliver expert visual instruction on web development, digital media, and many design and development applications.
Today Safari Books Online offers a depth and breadth of technical content that no other electronic reference resource comes close to matching. Safari Books Online has become the trusted search for technology information. Without question, Safari is fast changing the way that corporate, academic, and training organizations access information.
