Virtual Worlds

To stay competitive, enterprises must leverage collaboration and virtual training tools to empower the employees with training programs that provide immersive learning experiences. Sify’s has designed and delivered virtual world solutions to enterprises and higher education segments by using platforms such as Second Life, Protosphere, and Telespace.

Sify has successfully rolled out virtual world implementations for:

• Compliance training
• Group exercises for process training
• Health and safety training
• Behavioral training
• Employee bonding and social networking
• New hire induction and training
• Remote team collaboration and virtual workspaces

Using Sify’s virtual world solutions, enterprises can:

• Provide a risk-free environment for training
• Deliver experiential learning and improve employee productivity
• Allow for collaborative and social learning
• Reduce cost of training by minimizing or eliminating travel or use of expensive equipment or premises
• Enhance customer service by setting up virtual agents to answer customer queries.

Compliance Training

Sify’s team that specializes on virtual world solutions can help enterprises design and deploy virtual world training programs to meet all regulatory and compliance requirements in various areas, such as:

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• Ethics and Code of conduct (Sarbanes Oxley)
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Sexual Harassment

Health and Safety Training

Sify has delivered training programs to organizations specifically in the Engineering, Health care, and Pharmaceutical industry segments where there is a need to empower employees on safety precautions and procedures and high-risk exposure to hazardous materials and expensive equipment. Some of the virtual training solutions that Sify delivered include:

• Procedural mockups to handle emergencies associated with complex turbines
• Interactive 3D prototypes to operate heavy engineering components in a realistic virtual environment

Employee New Hire Induction and Team Collaboration

Sify specializes in using virtual world solutions as an interactive and effective medium for employee training, specifically for new hire induction and team collaboration. Some of the relevant projects include:

• A collaborative learning platform built for students and faculty to share knowledge, enhance bonding, and encourage informal learning.
• Virtual workspace for new hires to explore, learn, and collaborate on the enterprise’s core values, credentials, and products.