Commercial Support
These companies and others who are members of the Sakai Foundation Commercial Affiliates Program, in addition to commercial support for the community institutions, provide valuable funding and other resources to the Foundation and directly support Sakai development work and special programs. You can see the full member list on the Commercial Affiliates page.
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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 offers professional Sakai services to help educational institutions to use the full potential of Sakai. We can help your organization with implementation, hosting, development and integration of Sakai. Our professional Sakai services include:
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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. |
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. |
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. |
NetSpot is an Australian eLearning technology services company for the Higher Education market in the Asia Pacific region. Our services include managed hosting and managed applications, help desk, technical support, training, migration, integration, software development and implementation consulting. We support key Learning Management Systems and related third-party extensions, and currently manage such systems for over 100,000 students. |
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, and e-mail technologies in addition to ERP systems. One of Unicon's greatest strengths is its expertise in planning new and expanded Sakai implementations. Major academic institutions including Georgia Tech have utilized Unicon's services to successfully implement Sakai as a compelling alternative to proprietary learning and collaboration software. Two major issues academic institutions communicate is their need and desire for more choices and more control. Sakai gives them both. Sakai is a full-featured viable alternative and it enables them to control the amount of their investment, how and where they invest, and even choose when to upgrade their software. Whether an institution is replacing costly proprietary software, or desires to build/integrate new applications, Unicon can provide a range of services to maximize the benefits of open source software. These services include consulting, implementation, branding, migration, custom software development, integration, training, and support. More information can be found at http://www.unicon.net/services/sakai |
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. |
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. |
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