ass17 Posted May 15, 2013 Posted May 15, 2013 Hi, Anybody subscribed free to RM Unify yet? If they have is it any good? If so how have you implemented it... Thanks
bodminman Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 Just stumbled across this review: All that glitters is not gold: RM Unify There is a bit where the chap describes it as a dinosaur!
Edu-IT Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 I'm not sure what benefits I see for the free version, at this stage, because apps are very limited. The paid version though is proving amazing for Office365 integration and SSO.
Sylv3r Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 We've signed up for the paid for version and go live next week mainly for the Office365 integration. Anybody who is thinking of purchasing, I think the cost of £425 (or thereabouts) for Secondary schools is only available until the end of May, then the cost doubles I believe. At a guess I would imagine the Primary costs will increase as well.
Edu-IT Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 (edited) We've signed up for the paid for version and go live next week mainly for the Office365 integration. Anybody who is thinking of purchasing, I think the cost of £425 (or thereabouts) for Secondary schools is only available until the end of May, then the cost doubles I believe. At a guess I would imagine the Primary costs will increase as well. Heard that if you buy at this lower price, that's guaranteed for next year too. Did you get that message?? It's not a bad price, a lot of other Office365 'ADFS in the cloud' solutions cost a lot more. Even if you buy RM Unify at the new pricing that's coming you'd still be saving if it's a feature you want. Edited May 16, 2013 by Edu-IT
Edu-IT Posted May 17, 2013 Posted May 17, 2013 Interested, but not at that price! I costed up some other solutions, I think the cheapest I found for ADFS was £3000 once you'd took in to account setup charges and all that.
GeekyPete Posted July 2, 2013 Posted July 2, 2013 I didn't see the point of it until I realised that it also sets up and syncs accounts on other cloud services too. Not just Office 365 or Google Docs. We use classroom monitor, Education city, espresso and probably one or two more that the teachers haven't told me about. Full version ordered and I'm looking forward to see how it ties in with existing subscritions. Will probably take a look at RM Books too.
plexer Posted July 2, 2013 Posted July 2, 2013 I signed up for the free version and after a few weeks it was ready to use why it takes so long I don't know I logged in once and haven't logged back in since as it's so limited. Ben
Boredguy Posted July 2, 2013 Posted July 2, 2013 We got hold of the free one, as we were originally looking to use it as SSO for Office 365, but clarity on how users could login to the Office 365 site without needing to be sent via Unify plus Microsofts own updates to Dir Sync made it much easier to forget about it and go straight to dirsync (since we only really wanted unify to save the hassle of the full AD federation) I've setup 1 account primarily for the RM books, but I've not got round to logging back in to it yet to check the settings so the library staff can play with it.
Edu-IT Posted July 2, 2013 Posted July 2, 2013 but clarity on how users could login to the Office 365 site without needing to be sent via Unify In short, you can't. RM Unify 'is' the login system you use. So you go to Office365, try to login and are redirected to RM Unify, and are then sent back to Microsoft. It's a relatively seamless process with just the RM Unify login screen part way through.
Boredguy Posted July 2, 2013 Posted July 2, 2013 Yep Edu-IT, and even though I got that same confirmation it, there was also some head scratching when posing other login questions, which is why we just went for DirSync (must finish getting it setup tomorrow)
Edu-IT Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 Yep Edu-IT, and even though I got that same confirmation it, there was also some head scratching when posing other login questions, which is why we just went for DirSync (must finish getting it setup tomorrow) Fair enough. Just thought it might be useful for others to know.
funkyfin2000 Posted July 18, 2013 Posted July 18, 2013 Got to say RM Unify is awesome - OK it didn't have many apps when it was released but it takes time to build these and they are coming thick and fast now! Certainly a lot showing on the Trello board they use to showcase up and coming features (let me know if you need the link) This also lets you vote for which ones you think are the best too! Great way to inform them! Today we can Office365 Site Creator for the first time since it's release last week, got to say it was awesome! Talk about taking the time and hassle out of setting up sites and permissions and content in O365! Your right though - Have an account provisioned in RM Unify and it creates all your accounts in the associated 3rd party and then manages them. With Office365 when trying to log in directly with a RM Unify provisioned account it will pass you back to log in to RM Unify before then returning you to Office365. DirSync might be good, but it doesn't start to tie other 3rd party services you have in the cloud together and you don't get to use Site Creator to manipulate Sharepoint! RM gets a lot of hard press sometimes but I think this new stuff is very well thought out and works! Rich
Tall_Paul Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 I wouldn't touch RM with a bargepole! They've truly burnt their bridges at my school.
funkyfin2000 Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 Fair enough - to be fair you don't need to touch RM if you want to try out RM Unify - you can have a play with the Free version (OK no SSO but gives you a flavour of how it fits together)
Max_Power Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 Anyone tried unify with a surface RT? Can it work with SSO?
funkyfin2000 Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 As long as it has a browser (IE 9 and above we recommend, Chome, Firefox, Safari and internet connection, I don't see why not! Not tested as such - we have tested on Android and IOS of course and all works well!
Max_Power Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 Cheers @funkyfin200 you had unify working with SSO on ipads then? Sounds quite promising.
funkyfin2000 Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 Yup, it's all browser based and SSO to 3rd party cloud services - such as things like Education City, Office 365, Google Apps, RM Books, J2E, Classroom Monitor, Planet Sherston etc etc All the Apps already in are on their website with loads more in the pipeline - What Applications are in RM Unify? | RM Shop Works really well on the Ipad (but remember your 3rd party service you link too much be supported on IOS - good example is anything Flash based (espresso/education city for example) wouldn't work but Microsoft have done a lot of work to get Office365 working well on IOS. Rich
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