About Unicon
Unicon Provides IT Services for Education, Specializing in Open Source
Unicon is a IT consulting services firm that provides educational institutions with ‘best-fit’ open source solutions to meet business challenges. The company’s focus is enterprise deployments of open source software for campus portals, collaboration, learning, calendaring, authentication, video, email and integration technology for higher education. Institutions confidently select Unicon for achieving the maximum benefit for their open source investment. Unicon provides expert guidance necessary to meet the unique needs of institutions through faster implementation, increased flexibility and reduced risk. At Unicon, our first priority is to understand your institutions vision for the future as well as your current challenges. We work closely together to create a roadmap that addresses those challenges while realizing your unique vision.
The Advantages of Unicon
Domain Expertise in Higher Education
Unicon understands technology. Since 1993, Unicon has provided learning technology services and solutions to over 175 clients, including some of the largest and most prestigious colleges and universities, Fortune 100 companies, and global publishers. With the right products, know-how and experience, Unicon plays a critical role in the technology-driven transformation of higher education.
Commitment to Open Source
More than a provider of services for open source and community source solutions, Unicon participates and contributes to various community organizations. Our Services and Support Teams are code contributors and collaborators in community wikis and email lists. As a leading Commercial Affiliate of both Sakai and uPortal, Unicon maintains an established presence in these communities and a broad network in open source for higher education.
Experienced People
Unicon is committed to hiring and retaining qualified and seasoned talent. Our employees are our greatest assets. Their diverse backgrounds and experience from major institutions and corporations bring proven abilities for large scale projects. Our Services and Support Teams include architects, developers, integration consultants, and administrators who are open source systems experts with deep community and project knowledge. Leveraging experience gained from hundreds of open source framework implementations, Unicon’s Services and Support Teams can help your institution design, implement, and maintain your learning technology solutions.
Large Company Abilities, Small Company Values
Unicon provides large-scale consulting firm professionalism and capabilities, but offers the agility, personalized service, and relationships of a small company. At Unicon, our first priority is to understand your vision for the future as well as your current challenges. Together we will create a roadmap to accomplish your goals.
Open Source Projects
Sakai
Sakai is a Collaboration and Learning Environment for higher education. As a Sakai Commercial Affiliate, Unicon provides services and support to make Sakai a successful part of your online campus. To learn more about Unicon's services for Sakai, click here.
uPortal
uPortal by Jasig is an enterprise portal built for higher education by higher education. As a founding member of the uPortal community and Jasig Commerical Affiliate, Unicon provides services and support to make uPortal the key to your online campus. To learn more about Unicon's services for uPortal, click here.
Central Authentication Service (CAS)
CAS by Jasig is an enterprise authentication service for institutions that wish to create a secure way for users to access multiple services with a single sign-on. Whether you are deploying CAS in Sakai or whether you have an existing web or email application and want to integrate CAS as a single sign-on solution, Unicon can help. To learn more about Unicon's services for CAS, click here.
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Shibboleth is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. Shibboleth offers a way for users to access multiple services with a federated single sign-on framework. Unicon is offering Shibboleth services which help you integrate Shibboleth with multiple applications including uPortal and Sakai. To learn more about Unicon's services for Shibboleth, click here.
Unicon is an Industry Member of Internet2. Shibboleth is a open source project of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative.
Zimbra
Zimbra is the leader in open source, next-generation collaboration and messaging software. As a Zimbra Value-Added Reseller, Unicon has partnered with Zimbra to offer you direct sales and implementation, ASP hosted solutions, and dedicated hosted solutions. To learn more about Unicon's services for Zimbra, click here.
Toro
Toro is Unicon’s open source channels and portlets for the uPortal project. Extend the functionality of uPortal with these commercial-grade tools.
Vendor Partner Options
While Unicon believes in open source solutions, we do not turn our back on closed-source options. As higher education institutions have a mixture of open source and closed-source needs, Unicon has partnered with vendors to provide you with the right solution.
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