The #1 Virtual Environment Used in Life Sciences

The Always-On Virtual SciencePark

By pairing technologies such as Microsoft SharePoint with ProtonMedia’s 3-D virtual collaboration environment, life sciences companies like AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck are moving beyond online meetings and events to accelerate decision-making around all phases of their product lifecycle. ProtoSphere plays an essential role in overcoming barriers to knowledge transfer, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and learning in the enterprise.

ProtoSphere’s “always-on” business environment pulls resident content in the corporation’s information resources—from Microsoft SharePoint and Office, to learning management systems, to ERP information pulled from SAP, and even proprietary research databases—into a fully immersive 3-D environment available to scientists, knowledge-workers, executives, partners, and customers at any time and from anywhere.

The Unique Needs of Life Sciences

Life sciences companies have myriad legal, regulatory, privacy, and security requirements. ProtoSphere was built with these concerns in mind, with customizable auditing, logging, reporting, and encryption features that make compliance easier.

In most life sciences companies, teams’ conversations are un-moderated and unreported, typically occurring as massive e-mail threads. In contrast, ProtoSphere can capture and correlate all aspects of conversations that occur within the environment, if desirable – not just e-mail. All conversations and content—whether voice, video, e-mail, or documents—can be logged, with activity reports automatically provided to management.

Moreover, all communications and content are encrypted with 256-bit AES security. ProtoSphere may also be securely deployed behind the corporate firewall, or as a secure SaaS dedicated hosted solution.

Creating the World’s First 3-D Virtual Poster Symposium

ProtonMedia’s customers are making history in the life sciences industry. The journal Nature Chemistry recently published an expansive report covering Merck’s use of ProtoSphere to create the world’s first 3-D virtual poster symposium.

The article takes you deep inside the process Merck and ProtonMedia developed to produce this truly historic online event. It also documents the success metrics Merck executives compiled, demonstrating how ProtoSphere improved communication, collaboration, connections, and knowledge transfer at the company.

Among the key findings was that participating scientists were more willing to approach senior executives in the virtual environment than they would have been in a face-to-face meeting. Post-event surveys showed that 94 percent of the participants found the virtual poster session valuable. Fifty-nine percent declared that the virtual poster event was more valuable to them than a traditional face-to-face poster session. Fully 100 percent said they were willing to attend such an online poster session again in the future.