ABOUT UNICON

We build and run the systems the learning market depends on

Unicon is your partner of choice wherever innovation is happening.

A tech partner for more than three decades

Unicon’s work happens where infrastructure decisions are consequential:

  • AI readiness, enablement, and coaching

  • Data strategy, governance, and interoperability

  • Product and application development, delivery, and support

  • Identity and access management (IAM)

  • Public good enablement and employment initiatives

Institutions, edtechs, foundations, and consortia return to Unicon because the work produces systems that operate reliably and can be handed off cleanly.

Each program includes defined modules, milestones, and deliverables from current-state assessment through implementation and sustained operation.

We are much more than an IT services consulting firm. We work wherever people are learning, whether in workforce development or directly in K-20 environments. Our team features practitioners who have built, maintained, and contributed to a variety of community standards and platforms the industry runs on.

Over 400 clients and counting

    • Arizona State University

    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

    • California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

    • Columbia University

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

    • North Carolina State University

    • Oakland University

    • Stanford University

    • Texas A&M University

    • University of California, San Diego

    • University of Notre Dame

    • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    • California Community College Colleges System

    • Boston College

    • Brooklyn College - CUNY

    • California College of the Arts

    • College of Lake County

    • Foothill - De Anza Community College District

    • Marist College

    • Merced College

    • Onondaga Community College

    • Portland Community College

    • Sinclair Community College

    • Tacoma Community College

    • Success Academy Charter Schools

    • Chandler Unified School District

    • Los Angeles County

    • Texas Education Agency

    • Texas Education Exchange

    • Region 4 Education Service Center

    • School District of Philadelphia

    • Dallas Independent School District

    • Cabell County Schools

    • South Dakota Department of Education

    • 2U Inc.

    • Acadeum

    • Accelerate Learning

    • Apogee / Campus Televideo

    • Ascend Learning

    • Barnes & Noble College

    • Cambridge University Press

    • Carnegie Learning

    • Carolina Biologic

    • Cengage

    • Chegg

    • Core Higher Education Group

    • Coursera

    • D2L

    • Dreamscape Learn

    • Echo360

    • F.A. Davis

    • Goodheart - Wilcox

    • iCEV

    • Innovators Educators

    • Instructure

    • K12 Coalition

    • Larson Texts

    • Lumen Learning

    • Macmillan

    • Mainstay

    • McGraw-Hill

    • Paritii

    • Pearson

    • Richardson Sales Performance

    • Scholastic

    • SirsiDynix

    • Stride

    • VitalSource

    • W.W. Norton

    • Wiley

    • Gates Foundation

    • Michael and Susan Dell Foundation / Ed-Fi Alliance

    • Education Analytics

    • Education Design Lab

    • Internet2

    • Axim Collaborative

    • 1EdTech

    • CBEN

    • CISCO Foundation

    • Opportunity@Work

Industry Engagement

Contibuting thought leadership and technical expertise for more than 30 years

Unicon’s core beliefs

These are not marketing statements. They describe how engagements are structured and what clients should expect.

Standards and interoperability are not optional.

Education data needs to move. When it cannot move reliably- from K-12 to higher education, from credential systems to employer platforms—learners are the ones who lose. Unicon builds with interoperability requirements addressed from the start, not added as a later integration task.

Governance has to become practice.

Policy documents and governance committees that do not change how data flows or how access is controlled are not governance. Unicon measures success by whether the work sticks after the engagement ends.

Sustainability is key to delivery.

A platform that launches and then becomes unsupportable has not succeeded. Unicon builds with the operating team in mind, produces knowledge-transfer artifacts, and supports institutions after delivery when they need expert backup.

Identity is foundational infrastructure.

Every platform failure that disrupts a student, faculty member, or researcher has an identity root somewhere. IAM is not a feature of a system, it is the scaffolding that every system depends on. Navigate and Unicon's IAM practice exist because this work requires specialists.

Proof beats adjectives.

Unicon does not claim to deliver “seamless,” “world-class,” or “transformational” outcomes. We deliver roadmaps clients can act on, platforms that survive audits and scrutiny, and reporting that stakeholders actually trust.

Risk should be visible early.

Security, privacy, data access, and integration dependencies do not improve if they are discovered late. Unicon surfaces these conditions at the start of each engagement so they can be addressed as design requirements, not surprises.

Our North Star:
What we do,
and why we exist

We improve the experience of learning through the use of technology because education lifts all.

We are the digital learning enablement partner of choice for innovative institutions, companies, and funding organizations.

We delight in making edtech work for learners, and for the people and organizations who support them.

Credibility in practice

  • 13+ engagements with a single private liberal arts college across a decade-long relationship

  • 5–10+ year average partnership length with major research universities, national consortia, and public-good platforms

  • 20+ states supported in Ed-Fi data standard implementations, including statewide networks and multi-district programs

  • Active contributors to open-source IAM components used across higher education, including Grouper, Shibboleth, midPoint, and CAS

  • Selected as neutral, independent technical validator by organizations including major foundations, edtech companies, and university systems

  • Most new engagements in the public-good and foundation space begin with a peer referral from another Unicon client

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