Founded in 1988, Unicorn develops business simulations and 'serious games' for global clients. Unicorn Training provides eLearning, competence and assessment services to more than 100,000 users in most of the UK's largest financial companies. Unicorn’s partners include Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), the British Bankers' Association (BBA), Bacs, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (WKFS). Unicorn has offices in London and Bournemouth, and has more than 100 employees.
With strength in scriptwriting and technical authoring, Unicorn can combine educational principles with the creative use of technology to deliver learning solutions to inspire, communicate and get results. Its bespoke eLearning courses use the latest multimedia technologies to bring any subject to life. The company also offers off the shelf courses.
SkillsServe, an integrated online learning portal for the financial sector, delivers flexible learning experiences. SkillsServe can integrate all learning and assessment resources, both bespoke and off-the-shelf, across the core areas of professional qualifications, compliance, CPD and company-specific learning and development, while the system's automatic alerts, reminders and schedulers ensure no learning opportunity is overlooked. SkillsServe offers an intuitive and customizable interface – allowing the employees to personalize their homepage, choosing their own theme and adding or removing portlets such as BBC News feed, Wikipedia search tool and RSS weather updates.