Commercial Affiliates
| Cengage | rSmart |
| EDIA | Serensoft |
| IBM | Sunguard Higher Education |
| Longsight | Unicon |
| SoftChalk | Unitech |
| Oracle | Wiley Higher Educaton |
| People Brasil Educação |
Many of these same companies also provide commercial consulting and support services for the Sakai community institutions. You can find the list of those companies on the Commercial Support page.
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, reference centers, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. These solutions are delivered through specialized content, applications and services that foster academic excellence and professional development, as well as provide measurable learning outcomes to its customers. Cengage's mission is to shape the future of global learning by delivering consistently better learning solutions for learners, instructors and institutions. |
rSmart is the provider of enterprise support for open source application software in education. rSmart packages, certifies, deploys, and supports a collection of enterprise financial, collaboration and learning applications for colleges, universities, and organizations serving grades K–12. As an active member of open source projects like Sakai and Kuali, rSmart is able to provide its clients with software applications specifically designed to meet the unique needs of educational institutions. This collaborative approach allows rSmart to offer open source applications that break the dependence of educational institutions on traditional proprietary software vendors. |
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Edia is a software development company with people that understand education and know how to innovate. We combine technical know-how with passion for education and we believe in the promise and potential of technology enhanced learning. Edia conducts research, provides consultancy and develops web based applications in the realm of education. Edia specializes in implementation, integration and customization of enterprise-ready open source software. Edia was one of the early adopters of Sakai in Europe and has extensive experience with both technical and pedagogical implementations of this software. Edia has delivered professional Sakai services since 2004, supporting educational institutions to use the full potential of Sakai. Edia can help your organization with evaluating, implementing, hosting, developing and integrating Sakai. |
Serensoft works exclusively with higher education, helping institutions like yours deploy and support e-portfolios and learning management systems using Sakai and OSPortfolio. With e-portfolios in particular, our highly customized approach—we call it "Providence Methodology"—helps institutions determine the most effective way to use and deploy e-portfolios, whether it's within a single department or institution-wide. Serensoft's approach to open source / community source is deliberate. Every institution is unique, so the differing ways that schools will use and apply open source applications will vary widely -- demanding a flexible, customized, service-oriented approach to implementation. Serensoft is a pure services company focused only on what is best for its higher education clients. Serensoft offers a range of solutions, many that have no software licensing cost whatsoever. Looking out for an institution's best interests is central to Serensoft's Providence Methodology. Whether it's learning management / course management systems, e-portfolios or Administrative Computing, Serensoft designs fully customized solutions aimed at addressing your institution's needs. |
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SunGard Higher Education provides solutions, strategic consulting, and technology management services. Bringing together people, processes, and technology, we work with colleges and universities to help them strengthen performance through improved constituent services, increased accountability, and better educational experiences. More than 1,600 institutions worldwide rely on us to help them measurably improve performance. |
The Longsight Group's customized support programs will help your campus get the most out of Sakai. We'll help you explore Sakai, set it up on campus or host Sakai at one of our modern data centers with world-class reliability and a service level agreement to match. We will train your staff and faculty and integrate Sakai with your local authentication services and student information systems. We will make sure you get what you need at every step along the way. Our comprehensive support protects your options. The Longsight Group has been developing and supporting applications for higher education for more than 30 years. We have been hosting Sakai and its predecessors since 2001. Most importantly, we understand education from decades of front-line work in higher education IT management. Our business model emphasizes openness, reliability and partnerships. We ensure that you get the greatest benefit from community-developed software. |
Since 1993 Unicon has designed, implemented, and managed open source technology solutions for major universities, colleges, and corporations. As an original Sakai Commercial Affiliate, we provide enterprise deployments of Sakai. Our Sakai expertise includes custom development and integration with campus portals, collaboration, learning, calendaring, e-mail technologies, ERP systems, and corporate-sponsored support. Institutions seeking support for Sakai can subscribe to Unicon’s innovative Cooperative Support Program, guaranteeing them access to a dedicated team of Sakai administration and development specialists. Major universities such as the University of North Carolina, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech receive support for Sakai through Unicon’s Cooperative Support Program. Unicon, Inc. is a leading provider of IT consulting services for the education market. Unicon works closely with colleges, universities, and corporations to find the best solutions to meet their business challenges. Unicon specializes in using open source technologies to deliver flexible and cost-effective systems in the areas of enterprise portals, learning management systems (LMS), authentication, video, calendaring, email, and collaboration. Unicon is a Sakai Commercial Affiliate; an InCommon Affiliate; a member of Internet2 and the Oracle Partner Network; a Jasig partner and authorized Solution Provider for both CAS and uPortal; a services partner of Kaltura, Liferay, VASCO, and Zimbra; and a contributing member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium. |
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SoftChalk provides the ultimate solution for creating interactive, engaging and professional looking online lesson content for e-learning. With our intuitive software, educators can create lesson content that will engage learners and reinforce learning with interactive media, web-based widgets, comprehension questions, formatting features and flash-based activities. The Lesson content can be packaged for delivery in a learning management system, content management system, on a web-server, on a CD-ROM, or shared via CONNECT, SoftChalk’s online community and learning object repository. |
Unitech is the one of the Argentine leaders in Software Product Development and Maintenance for Government and Education organizations, enabling a faster time to market at the lowest total cost. With more than 15 years experience in designing and providing technological solutions through system integration and consultation, our performance has given us a clear vision of efficiency in the most complex systems management, both in the public and governmental sectors—in which we can account for an installed base of over 10,000 users—and in the private one, in which this base reaches 2,000 positions. Our professional staff, specialized in leading and implementing important projects, cover the whole spectrum of your needs. Among them, advice and initial diagnosis, identification of the most convenient products and technologies, project management, and furnishing the most appropriate hardware and software. Having been in the market since 1991 has allowed us to get deeply acquainted with the culture and idiosyncrasies of governmental and educational institutions, as well as with the processes and times existing regulations impose on them. |
Oracle serves more than 4,200 higher education institutions worldwide trust Oracle, helping them manage the business of education. In fact, 10 of the top 10 Research institutions worldwide, and 9 of the top 10 academic universities around the globe are running on Oracle applications. Not only does Oracle offer solutions for core Human Resources, Financials, and Supply Chain processes; but it also offers industry-specific solutions for Student Systems, Financial Aid, Grants, Contributor Relations, and more. In addition, Oracle collaborates with key partners, open source communities, and standards organizations serving education to deepen and broaden Oracle's solutions in support of the academic enterprise. |
Wiley Higher Education serves undergraduate, graduate, and advanced placement students, lifelong learners, and, in Australia, secondary school students. We publish educational materials in all media, notably through WileyPLUS, our integrated online suite of teaching and learning resources. Our programs target the sciences, engineering, computer science, mathematics, business and accounting, statistics, geography, hospitality and the culinary arts, education, psychology, and modern languages. |
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Brasil Educação Ltda. was founded in 1996 with a focus on Professional Education and Technology, including IT Content Course development, Training, and Support to school partnerships. The company is oriented to Technological Education, as wells as to the development of products and services to Primary, Secondary, Technical and High End Education Schools. People Educação possesses its own team of content development instructors, authoring, and pedagogical specialists. The company, considered a teaching benchmark on the Brazilian IT market, has its self-developed teaching methodology, with excellent teaching results. It offers over 200 Course Titles for the technological area. People Educação have been in the e-learning business since 2000 and is the first Brazilian Company to become Sakai Commercial Affiliate. As a SCA, it provides schools with Sakai technical and pedagogical support such as installation and configuration services, development of pilot projects, hosting, ASP, training for authoring, tutoring and LMS administration, content development, data migration, and customization. For more information visit http://www.peopleedu.com.br. |
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