GILBERT, Ariz. (PRWEB) December 06, 2017
Unicon, Inc., a leading provider of technology consulting, services, and support for the education industry, today announced services and support for Apereo EQUELLA 6.5, the first open source version of the award-winning digital repository to focus entirely on client-requested features, with usability at the core. EQUELLA was recently contributed as open source software under the Apereo Foundation, an open source community that supports software used in thousands of educational institutions worldwide.
Unicon’s services for EQUELLA 6.5 include Discovery, Deployment and Configuration, Consulting, Customization, Integration, Upgrades, Hosting, and Technical Support via Unicon’s Open Source Support program. EQUELLA is a digital repository for housing teaching/learning, research, media, and library content in one platform is currently in use in a wide range of schools, universities, colleges, departments of education, government agencies, and corporations worldwide.
EQUELLA 6.5 advances existing functionality with the following new enhancements:
*User experience (UX) improvements
*Drag and drop functionality to streamline the content contribution process
*Extensive workflow enhancements:
*User interface
*Notification controls
*File attachment
*Task management
*Scripting
Learn more about Unicon’s services for EQUELLA by visiting http://www.unicon.net/opensource/equella. For further information on EQUELLA, please visit http://www.apereo.org/projects/equella and http://www.apereo.org/projects/equella/equella-becomes-open-source-software-what-you-need-know.
About Apereo
The Apereo Foundation exists to help educational institutions collaborate to develop, use and sustain open source software for learning, teaching and research. It is a membership organization, with members on four continents. Membership ranges from community colleges to major research-intensive institutions. Apereo currently supports nineteen software solutions, which are listed at http://www.apereo.org. The Apereo Foundation is a non-profit corporation registered in New Jersey.
About Unicon
Unicon is a leading provider of technology consulting, services, and support for the education industry. Institutions and corporations leverage Unicon’s domain expertise across numerous disciplines, including identity and access management (IAM), learning analytics/student success, standards-based integration, portals, content lifecycle, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Unicon’s depth of experience in designing, building, integrating, operating, and supporting learning, assessment, and institutional systems ensures the right skills and technologies are applied to every engagement. Unicon is a Contributing Member of IMS Global Learning Consortium; a Commercial Affiliate of the Apereo Foundation; a Trust and Identity Solution Provider in the Internet2 Industry Program and an Industry Member of Internet2; an InCommon Participant; an Instructure Certified Partner; a Desire2Learn (D2L) Technology Partner; a GSA Industry Partner and Schedule 70 Contract Holder; an Advanced Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network, a member of the AWS Education Competency Program, and a member of the AWS Public Sector Program. For more information, visit: http://www.unicon.net.
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