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 founding JASIG Commercial Affiliate. Currently, John Louis, the Chief Software Architect at Unicon, is on the JASIG Board of Directors. JASIG is a non-profit (501(c)3), global consortium of educational institutions and commercial affiliates supporting open source software development and promoting open computing architectures for higher education. JASIG provides hosting and representation for several open source projects including uPortal and the Central Authentication Service (CAS). Unicon specializes in delivering enterprise-class services for the JASIG uPortal platform, and the JASIG CAS single sign-on framework.
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.
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 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.
