Common Need, Inc.

Common Need, Inc (a.k.a. CommonNeed) was founded in Virginia in 2006. From the beginning, our number one priority at CommonNeed has been clear: customer success in transforming education. Our service — plugjam — empowers developers to create deeply interoperable, data-driven applications with rich interactivity. Our customers are able to develop high-performance, highly specific and productive user experiences without the typically complex programming of web service integration, data integration, web application state management, and deployment provisioning.

Our vision is to be the global leader in on-demand application services for education. We designed and developed our plugjam^® platform-as-a-service (PAAS) solution to be easy and quick to deploy, low-cost, low-risk, customizable and integratable with other software applications by Institutions of all sizes. Our services help customers more effectively deliver rich education experiences to engage learners and enhance the learning process.

Our values

We are always guided by our core values of integrity, teamwork, commitment and excellence.

• Integrity of our products and services to our customers by being honest, trustworthy and professional in what we do, say and communicate.
• Teamwork with customers and partners by being responsive to changing needs and situations. Listening to others, respecting their opinions and being open to constructive feedback.
• Commitment to success of our customers by seeing things through to completion and ensuring that together we change education for the better.
• Excellence – taking pride in our work by always striving to find a better way of doing things, always doing the right thing not the easy thing, and encouraging innovation.

Thank you for visiting our site. We look forward to discussing your challenges and determining if plugjam and dyvulge are the right solutions for you.