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 a member of the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce.  Unicon's corporate headquarters is located in the thriving, welcoming community of Gilbert, Arizona.  The Gilbert Chamber of Commerce serves as a trusted business advocate to strengthen and back the ever-growing business climate in Gilbert.  As a member, Unicon supports the success of other local businesses who share a similar commitment to the community.  

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Unicon is an Organization Member of the Drupal Association. The Drupal Association is an educational non-profit organization that tasks itself with fostering and supporting the Drupal software project, the community and its growth. Supported by both individual members and organizations, the Association uses its resources, network and funds to constantly engage in new projects and initiatives to help educate people about Drupal and support the growth of the Drupal project.

Learn more about the Drupal Association.

Learn more about Drupal.

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).

Learn more about uPortal.

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Unicon is an Affiliate and Participant of InCommon, a formal federation of organizations focused on creating a common framework for collaborative trust in support of research and education. Through InCommon participation, Unicon can further provide higher education institutions both the community support and collaboration needed to successfully deploy and maintain a federated identity management service, such as Shibboleth Federated Single Sign-On Authentication Service. InCommon facilitates development of a community-based common trust fabric sufficient to enable participants to make appropriate decisions about the release of identity information and the control of access to protected online resources. InCommon Affiliates provide consulting, content, hosting, support, and training for the InCommon Community. 

Learn more about Shibboleth.

Unicon is an Industry Member of Internet2, a not-for-profit networking consortium led by universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies.  Membership in the Internet2 community allows Unicon the opportunity to contribute, communicate, and collaborate with other members of the higher education industry that are likewise interested in ensuring the longevity of both deployment and development of Shibboleth Federated Single Sign-On Authentication Service. By bringing research and academia together with technology leaders, Internet2 promotes collaboration and innovation that has a fundamental impact on the future of the Internet. Through membership, Unicon has the opportunity to partake in the sharing of tools, solutions, research, and developmental ideas to further support and cultivate the Internet2 community and projects.

Learn more about Shibboleth.

Unicon is a Solutions 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.  

For more on Kaltura's relationship with Unicon, click here.

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.

For more information on Liferay's relationship with Unicon, click here.

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.

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Unicon is a VMware Solutions Provider (formerly Zimbra Value-Added Reseller, or 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.

Learn more about Zimbra.