Unicon Joins Liferay Partner Eco-system
Unicon Meets Demand for Liferay Technology With 16 Years of Industry Experience
LOS ANGELES – (BUSINESSWIRE) – Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading open source portal and social collaboration software, recently announced a new partnership with Unicon. Inc., a leading IT consulting services provider, specializing in open source for the education market. With this partnership, Unicon expands its portal practice, leveraging Liferay’s web-based social collaboration platform to create dynamic learning solutions through the power of community. Liferay, in turn, gains a strategic service partner that will help meet an escalating demand from the education market.
“Unicon is an expert in the higher education space and is excited to partner with Liferay,” said John C. Blakley, CEO of Unicon, Inc. “The breadth of functionality and ease of deployment of their technology is a good fit for Unicon and a great value to the education market.”
In its 10th year of development, the award-winning Liferay Portal allows users to create custom web-based content management and collaboration solutions with over 60 out-of-the-box tools on top of a flexible Service Oriented Architecture platform. This robust feature set, impressive scalability, and business friendly open source licensing have made Liferay Portal a widely deployed technology among educational organizations around the world, powering solutions from student portals with built-in social networking to learning management systems.
“Liferay and the education sector share a common appreciation for how technology can facilitate collaborative learning,” said Brian Kim, Liferay’s Chief Operations Officer who leads the company’s partnership and alliance strategies. “A domain expert such as Unicon will be able to help these organizations optimize their use of our technology and help Liferay further expand our footprint in this space.”
Unicon has been serving the higher education and learning markets with consulting and services since 1993, with over 175 clients including some of the world’s largest and most prestigious colleges and universities. It adopted Liferay Portal to bring a wider set of technology options to its long-standing enterprise portal practice and joined the Liferay business ecosystem after seeing a steady rise in Liferay popularity among academic organizations. As a Service Partner, Unicon will be equipped to provide end-to-end consulting services on Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition, from evaluation and planning to installation, customization, and other areas of the application lifecycle.
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About Liferay, Inc.
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. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.
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Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.
