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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

Unicon, Inc., a leading provider of information technology consulting services for the education market, has renewed as an InCommon Affiliate for 2011. The InCommon Affiliate Program provides the research and education community with a way to connect with partners able to help build the necessary underlying infrastructure that supports federated access.

“InCommon streamlines research and collaboration between institutions,” said John Blakley, Chief Executive Officer of Unicon. “We recognize the value of Shibboleth as it relates to the InCommon community, and have formalized a program to support our Shibboleth customers with direct access to qualified technical staff, including an option for custom development work.”

Unicon provides services for authentication solutions, including Shibboleth Federated Single Sign-On Software, offering implementation planning, branding, installation, configuration, custom development, mentoring, and support.  Unicon can implement and customize Shibboleth for uPortal, Sakai, and other enterprise applications. The company also offers solutions for Jasig’s CAS Single Sign-On (Central Authentication Service). 

“Shibboleth and core identity management infrastructure are key for a large majority of our participants,” said John Krienke, chief operating officer of InCommon. “We’re pleased to again welcome Unicon and their extensive experience with Shibboleth implementations for both identity providers and online service providers.”

For more information, and a list of current affiliates, go to www.incommon.org/affiliate.

ABOUT UNICON

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, identity and access management, online video, calendaring, email, and collaboration.  Unicon is a Sakai Commercial Affiliate; an InCommon Affiliate; an Industry Member of Internet2; a Jasig and VMware Partner; an authorized Solution Provider for CAS, uPortal, and VMware; a services partner and reseller of Kaltura, Liferay, and Zimbra; and a Contributing Member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium. For more information, visit: www.unicon.net. 

ABOUT INCOMMON

InCommon serves the U.S. education and research communities, supporting a common framework of trust services and operating the InCommon Federation, the U.S. trust federation for research and education, and the community-driven InCommon Certificate Service. The InCommon Federation enables scalable, trusted collaborations among its community of participants. Identity Providers give their users single sign-on convenience and privacy protection, while Service Providers control access to their protected resources. The Certificate Service offers unlimited certificates to the U.S. higher education community for one fixed annual fee. For more information, see www.incommon.org