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EDIA offers a number of services that allows institutions to benefit from the full potential of Sakai. Our services are aimed at both technical, and functional optimisation of the software, ensuring that all organisational levels will have an optimal Learning Management System experience when using Sakai. EDIA was the first European Sakai Commercial Affiliate delivering Sakai development and support services since 2005. We support open source initiatives because we believe in the innovative power of community development.

EmbanetCompass Academic Services offers premium course development and support services to enhance your success with Sakai. EmbanetCompass’ team of instructional design, media and technology experts works one-on-one with program faculty to design, develop, and manage online courses. EmbanetCompass’ dedicated 24/7/365 live, in-house help desk support team takes pride in quality services which enhance the student's online learning experience and results in higher graduation and completion rates. We are committed to providing customer-focused, world-class student and faculty support services all through a single point of contact for your institution. Our flexible and accommodating approach allows administrators, faculty and students to feel confident knowing that help is available when they need it most.

Flying Kite is a software house based in Canberra, Australia, and has been delivering Sakai support and custom development to educational institutions worldwide since 2008.

Our developers live and breathe Sakai: we have extensive experience in all areas of Sakai and are passionate about our work. Large or small, contact us for a tailored solution you'll get excited about!

We also offer services for Sakai OAE, uPortal, CAS and DSpace.

KEL is a system integrator in Japan. We provide the best-of-breed and comprehensive solutions in partnership with a wide range of vendors including hardware and software. To meet the various needs of customers, we also develop our own products and services. Being the first SCA in Japan and the provider of the development, implementation, and support for Sakai, KEL expands its activity throughout the country to offer the most substantial information service for students and staff.

Longsight will help you evaluate Sakai, install it on campus or host Sakai at one of our modern data centers with 99.999% reliability. We understand the business of education; we know what’s important to you. We’ll make the transition to Sakai smooth with comprehensive support, training, content migration, integration with campus services and more. Contact Longsight to learn how to get the most out of community source software – flexibility, control, reliability, cost savings and more.

OpenCollab is a Cape Town based, South African software development and consulting company. We promote open source systems and communities, and have been building, implementing and supporting higher education technology and enterprise applications for over a decade. A strategic commitment to the future of open source software and collaboration, combined with strong customer orientation, means we deliver scalable, enterprise-strength applications. We offer a full Sakai solution set, and are proud to be called the first Sakai Affiliate in Africa.

Asahi Net International (“ANI”) is a New York-based technology company that delivers teaching and learning systems that empower students and educators to extend and reinvent education. ANI’s team in Scottsdale engages with the Sakai community to develop innovative open software providing customers with commercially reliable platform specifically designed by education, for education to meet the unique needs of academic institutions. We take collaborative approach to technology innovation to improve teaching and learning outcomes and make high quality education accessible to everyone. ANI and its parent company ASAHI Net Inc., a Japanese public internet service provider, together support 240 educational institutions with over 550,000 students around the world.

Samoo is a Spanish company that provides Sakai related services. Our services include installation, configuration, modification, integration, translation, development and support in small, medium or large sized organizations. Samoo is totally centered on Sakai and e-learning tools and specifically the tools that can be integrated with Sakai such as web conference tools or content repositories. Samoo offer their services to the global community but is mainly centered on the Spanish community in Spain and the Hispanic-American countries. Samoo is part of the S2U (Spanish Sakai Universities) group and provides a full set of services in a collaborative mode to all the Universities in the S2U group. Samoo has a Spanish Sakai demo that you can test at http://demo.samoo.es.

Unicon is a leading provider of IT consulting services for the education market, and one of the original Sakai Commercial Affiliates. Unicon’s services for Sakai include evaluation, implementation, customization and integration, consulting and mentoring, and support. Institutions seeking support can subscribe to our Cooperative Support Program for Sakai. Unicon provides educational professionals with a free test drive site for trying or evaluating Sakai. https://testdrive.unicon.net/portal/.

Unitech is 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 an installed base of over 10,000 users, our professional staff specializes in leading and implementing important projects that 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.

U Red Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación S.A.P.I. de C.V., is a Mexican company that provides support for the deployment of both Sakai CLE and Sakai OAE to improve teaching and learning, collaboration, and research. Since 2006 U Red has developed a deep knowledge of educational processes, planning and building strategic solutions with educational open source platforms suitable for all learners and educators.

U red has an experienced work team composed by talented individuals who are passionate about education and innovation, leading efforts to help bring out the potential of people and organizations through openness, usability, strong communications, dependability and reliability.

Services: Hosting. Installation. Support. Customization. Localization. Training. Student services. Enterprise consulting.

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.

Hallway Technologies focuses on custom development of tools and solutions for the Sakai CLE and Sakai OAE systems. We are also developing some hybrid solutions to ease the transition from CLE to OAE. We maintain Mail Sender and assist schools with integrating their campus services with Sakai.