Partners
Unicon is an accredited business represented by the Better Business Bureau. As an accredited business represented by the Better Business Bureau, Unicon follows a good faith effort to resolve any complaints in accordance with generally accepted good business practices. The Better Business Bureau, founded in 1912, is an unbiased organization that sets and upholds high standards for fair and honest business behavior. The Better Business Bureau provides objective advice, free business Reliability Reports and Charity Wise Giving Reports, and education information on topics affecting marketplace trust. The Better Business Bureau also offers complaint and dispute resolution support for consumers and businesses when there is difference in viewpoints.
Unicon is an official Jasig partner and authorized Solution Provider for both CAS and uPortal. Currently, John Lewis, the Chief Software Architect at Unicon, is on the Jasig Board of Directors. Jasig is a consortium of educational institutions and commercial affiliates sponsoring open source software projects for higher education, fostering collaboration within and among communities of practice. Jasig is a non-profit 501(c)3 membership organization organizing conferences in support of open source software design, development, and implementation. Jasig provides hosting and representation for several open source projects including uPortal and Central Authentication Service (CAS).
Unicon is a services partner of Kaltura, developer of the first open source online video platform. Kaltura’s enterprise solutions provide video and rich-media capabilities to online classes, lecture material, university web sites, marketing campaigns, and internal and external institution employee training programs. Kaltura’s open source platform powers the video capabilities of over 52,000 web publishers worldwide, including major universities. Unicon is a licensed reseller of the Kaltura solution, and will provide services to integrate Kaltura into the institutional architecture. Kaltura’s platform is fully integrated with popular Learning Management Systems. The platform is available in an affordable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, or through a self-hosted, on-premise installation.
As a Silver Service Partner of Liferay, Unicon provides a wide-range of services to help institutions implement and deploy the Liferay Portal. Liferay, Inc. is the provider of leading enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, recognized by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant and used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay, Inc. offers professional services, technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments.
The Sakai Foundation is a non-profit organization that evolved from the original Sakai Project, which is dedicated to coordinating activities around Sakai and the Sakai community to insure Sakai’s long-term viability. The Sakai Foundation actively develops a large, self-sustaining community of organizations and individuals that share the Sakai Foundation’s open source vision for leveraging the economics and innovation of common academic software. Today the Sakai project is run by the Sakai Foundation: a vibrant and growing community of more than 100 members representing universities, colleges, and institutions worldwide. Since its inception, the Sakai community has successfully achieved multiple releases and hundreds of enterprise production deployments. Unicon, as one of the original Sakai Commercial Affiliates, has vested interest in ensuring Sakai's long-term success. Unicon has years of experience designing and implementing open source solutions for higher education.
Unicon is an official partner in the Oracle Partner Network. Unicon's role with Oracle is to deliver implementation services for Oracle's Student Administration Integration Pack (SAIP) to integrate Campus Solutions 9.0 with institutional academic systems. These systems include standards-based, major vendor-supplied, and open source learning management systems. Unicon also provides development, customization, and interface services between Campus Solutions 9.0 and enterprise applications that do not conform to standards. In the past, Unicon and Oracle became partners in the development of Sakora, the integration component providing the connection between Campus Solutions 9.0 and Sakai through SAIP. For almost 30 years, Oracle has been helping customers manage business systems and information with reliable, secure, and integrated technologies. Today, Oracle is the largest business software company in the world, with more than 320,000 customers—including 98 of the Fortune 100—and supports these customer in more than 145 countries.
For more on Oracle's relationship with Unicon, click here.
Unicon is a partner of Terracotta, a software company and eponymous open source development project that delivers enterprise Java application scalability and availability. Terracotta provides database scalability with Hibernate and high-performance distributed caching. This enables customers to reduce their development efforts and ongoing operating costs. Terracotta's community is home to some of the world's experts in building infrastructure that simplifies development of highly reliable, highly scalable, high performance Java applications. Core development is sponsored by Terracotta, Inc., a private company with its headquarters in San Francisco, California. The Terracotta open source project has support from many open source companies including Spring, Tomcat and Geronimo and many thousands of community members.
Unicon is a partner of VASCO Data Security, the leading provider of two-factor authentication solutions to banks, governments, corporations, and non-profit organizations worldwide. VASCO’s solutions for the educational institutions allow colleges and universities to secure their staff, faculty, and students while moving away from complex passwords and maintaining security throughout the user life cycle. These solutions can be implemented in hardware or software form, or as a combination of the two, to fit different budgets and user groups.
Unicon is a Zimbra Value-Added Reseller (VAR) providing the Zimbra products to academic institutions via direct sales and implementation. With educational discounts, Zimbra email and messaging has a very low total cost of ownership for institutions and allows them to provide robust, feature-rich solutions for their students and also generate branding awareness and advertising revenue from merchants locally and nationwide. Zimbra supports virtually all desktop environments including: Linux, Macintosh, and Windows.
Unicon is an official and current Contributing Member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS). IMS is the leading advocacy group encouraging the growth and impact of learning technology worldwide. IMS is a nonprofit member organization that provides leadership in shaping and growing the learning industry through community development of standards, promotion of high impact innovation, and research into best practices. Unicon’s role as an IMS Contributing Member designates a commitment to significant investment and leadership in open standards, innovation, and best practices, serving the unique needs of the global learning community.
