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Asteros Group is a leading systems integrator in Russia and is the first Russian Company to become Sakai Commercial Affiliate. Since 2008 we provide Sakai related service: installation, support, training, customization, localization, development new tools, integrate Sakai with other applications (SIS, library etc.) and lots more. Asteros company works in close collaboration with Saint-Petersburg State University (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences) that serves as a center of expertise and ensures the production quality of Asteros.Edu distribution. Our Russian Sakai demo http://asteros-edu.ru

Edia is a software development company with people that understand education and know how to innovate. We specialize in implementation, integration and customization of enterprise-ready open source software. As one of the early adopters of Sakai in Europe, Edia has extensive experience with both technical and pedagogical implementations of this software. We can support your organization with implementation, hosting, development and integration of Sakai, enabling the full potential of Sakai.

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.

IBM Global Education acknowledges that students in the 21st century need to develop the skills and knowledge to enable them to succeed throughout their lifetimes. Higher education institutions can provide personalized learning, collaborative environments, open educational resources and tools to dynamically respond to student and faculty needs. Leverage IBM's experience in analytics, open platforms, and cloud computing to create a more responsive, dynamic and optimized teaching and learning environment.

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.

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.

rSmart brings a broad range of experience and capabilities to support your success with Sakai. We assist you with the expertise to evaluate, install, configure, integrate and transition to Sakai. Once you have implemented Sakai, rSmart’s premium support provides everything you need to make your users successful: hosting, technical support, functional support, documentation, training resources, and strategic guidance. We partner with our customers to fully align our capabilities in support of your success.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oracle delivers complete, open, integrated industry-leading technology, applications, hardware and services support; providing insight, agility and enabling high standards of service to students and constituents. We are pleased to have sponsored an employee to serve on the Sakai Foundation Board and to have used Sakai as the reference implementation for integration with Peoplesoft Campus Solutions Student Admin System in the industry’s first working implementation of the IMS LIS 2.0 spec.

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.

Xplana is a social learning platform that connects learners to content and communities. The platform is free to students and features an open, modular architecture that provides an organized learning context for useful learning content and tools scattered about the Web. It simplifies learning by connecting students’ informal learning with the formal platforms and structures of schools and institutions. Xplana also delivers premium content from educational publishers and other providers.

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.