Press Releases

Phoenix, AZ - December 16, 2008 — Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced it will be offering uPortal 3 training courses to enterprise IT staff and Web portal developers interested in attending a 3-day, hands-on session covering everything from introductory basics to authentication and portle

Customers Included Colleges, Universities, and Major U.S. Corporations

Phoenix, AZ - November 13, 2008—Unicon congratulates Jean Phillips and Hans Douma for winning in the Unicon booth #850 drawings at EDUCAUSE 2008. Jean Phillips, winner of the Playstation 3, is a Manager of the Aleph Services, at the Florida Center for Library Automation, University of Florida.

Phoenix, AZ - November 5, 2008—Unicon congratulates one of its software architects, Drew Wills, for his open source community involvement and contributions as a lead engineer for the Cernunnos Project.

Phoenix, AZ - October 27, 2008— Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced it is providing implementation, integration, and customization services for the Shibboleth® System, a standards based, open source software package for Web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries.

Phoenix, AZ - October 27, 2008— The executive directors from The Sakai Project and JASIG/uPortal will each deliver a LIVE Webinar executive briefing broadcast from EDUCAUSE covering the current state of their respective open source technology platforms and the future direction of their communities.

Phoenix, AZ - October 21, 2008—Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced a schedule of C-level technology briefings to be delivered during the EDUCAUSE 2008 Conference October 28-31, 2008 in Orlando, Florida.

Phoenix, AZ - October 15, 2008 —Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced the completion of a collaborative project with the IT staff at Johns Hopkins University for their upgrade to the latest uPortal 3 open source enterprise portal.  As part of the upgrade process, Johns H

First Product in Oracle’s Academic Enterprise Solutions Suite Integrates Back-office and Learning Management Systems for Higher Education Institutions.

Unicon has been featured in the Campus Technology Article: 5 Best Practices For Building Your Portal in a Web 2.0 World. This article discusses the five best practices for portals, the five being: surveys, making the data count, tackling governance, managing expectations, and innovation.