Everything Channel, IPED and Safari Books Online Form Strategic Partnership to Educate the Technology Channel

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, and IPED today announced a strategic partnership with Safari Books Online, an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 9,000 technology, digital media and business titles from leading publishers, to help educate technology, creative and business professionals around the globe. Safari Books Online offers access to a broad and constantly expanding range of content categories including digital curricula for certification, programming, web design and development, expert technology, design, business and management resources in both video and book formats. Through this strategic partnership IT professionals can stay abreast of emerging and existing technology as well as gain critical business knowledge. This agreement continues to advance Everything Channel's "complete technology Channel solution" commitment from access to execution to its customers.

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"We understand how important it is for IT professionals to improve their performance and remain competitive in the face of emerging technologies. Safari Books Online offers the most current technology and professional information available to enable productivity, innovation and growth," said Kate Spellman, SVP Strategic Marketing and Business Development, Everything Channel. "We are pleased to be working closely with Safari Books Online to continue to educate the technology channel. In addition, as we partner with new companies, we remain committed to strengthening our business in order to deliver a 'complete technology Channel solution'."

"We are very excited to partner with Everything Channel to offer their audience our exclusive content. Our on-demand digital library offers thousands of technology and business titles from leading publishers to educate IT professionals on vital topics," said Dennis Kilian, Senior Vice President of Safari Books Online. "These resources are invaluable to technologists on a daily basis, helping them to complete projects and learn new skills effectively."

To access the business and technology library, visit www.crn.com/iped_safarionline.

About Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), founded in 2001 as a joint venture between pre-eminent technology publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc., and Pearson Education, is an on-demand digital library delivering expert content from the leading authors in technology and business. Safari Books Online offers the combined collections of Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, IBM Press, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, FT Press, Wharton School Publishing, Apress, Manning, New Riders, Apple Certified, Course Technology, Splash Media and many more top publishers in one fully searchable database. Technology professionals, software developers, Web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training. Thousands of books, prepublication manuscripts, short documents, articles and instructional videos are available. Safari Books Online is an essential, always-on business tool that is rapidly changing the way corporate, academic and training organizations access information and is enabling increasingly mobile workforces to get technical and business reference resources anytime and from anywhere. Safari Books Online offers a range of business-to-business product mixes and pricing programs for every size organization, as well as business-to-consumer options for individual users.

About IPED (www.iped.com)

IPED empowers technology companies with channel education, intelligence and analysis to develop, deploy and execute channel strategies and programs that drive revenue. IPED delivers channel intelligence to clients through its exclusive access to world's largest channel databank. IPED content is based on more than two decades of channel experience and thousands of annual surveys of business partners and end customers.

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

    Contact

    Kate Spellman
    Everything Channel
    kspellman@everythingchannel.com
    516 562 7383

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