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Safari makes the world's widest selection of searchable technical and business books available as a reference and learning platform for problem solving and professional development. Safari is an essential business tool enabling increasingly mobile workforces to access technical and business reference resources online when and wherever required.

Safari's unparalleled content provides direct access to more best-selling works by leading authors and innovators than any other searchable database. Many titles found only in Safari are written by the leading experts and in many cases, the technology inventors themselves. For example, Safari includes works by Larry Wall, creator of the Perl language and author of Programming Perl, and Robert Martin, one of the primary founders of the methodology of Agile programming and author of the seminal book on the topic, Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices. Safari provides its customers with a direct link to educators, innovators, and authors for thought leadership, answers to important questions, and a rich learning environment.

As a business-to-business information services provider, Safari Books Online offers a number of product mixes and pricing programs to meet the needs of every sized organization.

Productivity

Safari Books Online delivers important content from trusted sources your employees can rely on time after time. Anywhere, anytime access to entire collections from our top technology publishers – a fully searchable electronic reference service containing expert content on emerging technologies, software development, information technology, web design, and creative professional applications.

If there's one thing your technical staff has in common it's the shared understanding that there's always more work than time. That's why when you need to solve a technical challenge it pays to look to Safari.

With Safari, your developers can quickly and easily:

  • Pinpoint code samples in a matter of seconds.
  • Look up the parameters to a program function on the fly.

IT organizations around the world keep their companies competitive by staying on top of the latest technology innovations and deploying well-designed technology solutions. Safari provides engineering teams with best practices, case-studies, examples and expert advice that help guide them through their decision-making.

Safari Books Online provides a trusted search for technical information:

  • Get an architectural overview of an application before embarking on a new enterprise application integration project.
  • Read real-world case studies on how companies have successfully deployed open source applications across their enterprise.

Learning

Is structured learning the key to success? Fact is, Gen-X doesn't wait until the next training course. They seek. They find. They share. They learn informally and that means they need tools that deliver the right information when and where they need it. With Safari's electronic reference library your developers and knowledge workers get more than information-they also get the confidence that they can find the right answers on the spot.

Safari's learning and training content gives everyone the materials they need at their fingertips. With a rich collection of books by leading authors; certification study-guides for Cisco, IBM, Sun, Microsoft and more; and training videos from instructional guru's including lynda.com and Peachpit Press, your employees will always have the most current, most relevant content available when they're ready to use it. Forget about pulling them off a project to go to a training class. They can learn when, where, and how they want, giving them the edge they need in a competitive marketplace. Bottom line, you don't lose any productivity.

Certification

As challenging as it is, keeping up on program certifications is an absolute necessity. But when do your employees have the time to study? How do you make sure they stay up-to-date in a way that works best for them? Self-study guides from publishers including Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, SAS Publishing, MySQL Press and Course Technology are the answer.

Safari has the certification study guides your employees need, when they need them. With new content added as soon as it's published, you can be sure that the material is current. Keeping your technical employees' certifications up-to-date is critical to maintaining a competitive edge. Safari makes it simple for them and for you.

Tech Support Content

Technology changes fast and your tech support team needs the most current information on the technologies and tools your company uses. And while your tech support team deals with hundreds of questions and challenges every day, you rely on them to provide reliable, timely service to your employees. Help them get the answers they need to the technical challenges they face by arming them with access to the Safari technical database.

Safari delivers expert Tech Support and Help Desk content to your team when and where they need it. With information on the most current, most relevant applications and office tools available to them at a moment's notice, they can get their jobs done more quickly and effectively than ever before. Making sure that the rest of your employees can, too.

Management

You rely on your team of managers to help you lead your company. You depend on them day in and day out to make good decisions, guide your employees, and meet your organizational goals. Your managers rely on you for the same level of support. Make sure they have the tools they need when they need them.

Safari's business and management content from leading publishers like Wharton School Publishing, Que and Prentice Hall, puts timely, important business tools in your managers' hands. From meeting management challenges to staying abreast of changing philosophies to keeping up with best practices, Safari's business and management collection has it covered. With rich content by leading business authors and publishers, you can be confident that your managers have the tools they need to get the job done.