Partner Network
ProtonMedia has formed strategic partnerships to incorporate best practices, expertise in specific industries, and state-of-the-art technology within the ProtoSphere immersive social learning and collaboration environment. These partnerships are creating unique, immersive online workspaces focused on meeting a particular business or industry requirement.
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
Microsoft
ProtonMedia is a Microsoft Life Sciences Partner. ProtonMedia and Microsoft technologies together create a solution that provides life sciences companies with secure access to important data across the product lifecycle—from early-stage discovery and clinical trials to FDA submission and manufacturing.
By pairing technologies such as Microsoft SharePoint with ProtonMedia’s 3-D virtual collaboration environment, life sciences companies like AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck can efficiently search, collect, share, and store information from disparate sources in an accessible, intuitive format. By bringing the entire research pipeline into view, Microsoft and ProtonMedia’s collaborative solutions improve decision-making and help get drugs to market faster.
ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere is the only 3-D virtual environment for business built entirely and exclusively on the Microsoft stack. ProtoSphere is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Communications Server (v2.0), and The Microsoft Office Suite. The ProtoSphere platform requires Microsoft Active Directory for directory services; Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for social networking capabilities; and Microsoft Office Communications Server (v2.0) for VoIP, instant messaging, calendaring integration, and presence indication.
ProtoSphere, backed by Microsoft SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies, fosters secure collaboration, providing global partners a shared workspace where they can safely exchange information in real time. It gives research managers the data they need to assess projects across the discovery portfolio and to make the best investment decisions—all while helping to protect the intellectual property of the parties involved.
Microsoft is committed to improving health around the world through software innovation. Over the past 13 years, Microsoft has steadily increased its investments in health, with a focus on addressing the challenges of health providers, health and social services organizations, payers, consumers, and life sciences companies worldwide. Microsoft closely collaborates with a broad ecosystem of partners and develops its own powerful health solutions, such as Amalga and HealthVault. Together, Microsoft and its industry partners are working to advance a vision of unifying health information and making it more readily available, ensuring the best quality of life and affordable care for everyone.
CHANNEL PARTNERS
Enabling Technologies
ProtonMedia has teamed up with Enabling Technologies Corp. to provide secure virtual collaboration solutions that help businesses lower costs, raise productivity, and optimize operations—all while maintaining strict regulatory compliance. Under the terms of the agreement, Enabling Technologies, a leading Microsoft Unified Communications Voice Specialized Partner, will be helping its customers unlock the full potential of their Microsoft Lync investment through integration with ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere platform.
Enabling Technologies is a global IT consulting practice created in 1992 that is one of the few companies truly expert and laser-focused on messaging solutions for medium and large enterprises. The company is hyper-focused on Unified Communications – a singular technical discipline in which it excels above and beyond other IT practices. The team exceeds other organizations in its ability to offer “best practice” solutions that address all messaging needs, drawing on extensive experience and technical proficiency with project management of enterprise Exchange migrations, real time/team collaboration, mobile communications, secure real time messaging, and web/video conferences for leveraging the Microsoft Exchange and Office Communications Server/Lync Server 2010 architectures.
Enabling Technologies works closely with medium and large enterprises to design and deploy real-time communications solutions to produce more effective messaging management utilizing speech-enabled solutions for increased mobility, lower operating costs, and productivity gains.
Enabling Technologies’ staff is comprised of seasoned, certified IT professionals who work with a range of next-generation technologies and are capable of recommending and implementing the “right solution” for their customers.
HighBarn Vision
ProtonMedia have partnered with UK based High Barn Limited to provide virtual world design, development and support services for European and International clients.
Whilst having a long background in working with new technologies, High Barn also specialize in the production of innovative and influential media content including graphics, video, animation and audio.
Established in 1993, High Barn Ltd have experience of working on international projects with a broad range of industries, including government, construction, manufacturing, energy and entertainment.
IBM
IBM and ProtonMedia teamed to build new technology and new services that deliver enterprise 3-D virtual collaboration and communication solutions to the life sciences sector. ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere technology will be the basis for customized, 3-D virtual collaboration environments to create high-performance workplaces.
Together, IBM and ProtonMedia enable organizations to address some of the most pressing issues facing them today, including speeding decision-making across the entire product lifecycle, meeting human capital management needs, and improving workplace performance overall.
By pairing IBM’s resources and domain expertise with ProtonMedia’s leadership in business-focused virtual collaboration technology, there are great opportunities for the companies to develop joint technology and services solutions that help life sciences organizations around the world lower costs, improve team productivity, and speed knowledge transfer.
Kaplan Eduneering
The ProtonMedia-Kaplan EduNeering partnership combines Kaplan EduNeering’s online compliance and knowledge solutions with ProtonMedia’s leading 3-D virtual environment, ProtoSphere, to help life sciences companies speed collaborative decision-making while meeting regulatory compliance requirements.
The companies are developing a comprehensive suite of tools for compliance training, product lifecycle management (PLM), and collaborative decision-making for life sciences organizations.
Kaplan EduNeering’s expertise in delivering solutions that help companies meet regulatory and compliance requirements will augment ProtonMedia’s ability to effectively foster product lifecycle collaboration within research, development, production, marketing, and customer engagement phases.
Kaplan EduNeering’s online compliance solutions are used by over 1 million individuals in more than 50 countries by companies in regulated industries, including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, biologics, dietary supplements, and medical devices. Kaplan EduNeering develops solutions for helping companies comply with regulations from agencies including the FDA, CMS, OSHA, EPA, ISO, and others.
Kaplan EduNeering is part of Kaplan, Inc., a leading global provider of educational services to individuals, schools and businesses. Kaplan is a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). Kaplan EduNeering is headquartered in Princeton, N.J., and has offices in Houston; Bloomsburg, Pa.; and London.
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LiquidHub
ProtonMedia and LiquidHub, a global technology consulting and systems integration firm, are technology and services partners. LiquidHub provides consultancy, integration, and deployment services that combine ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere 3-D virtual collaboration environment with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office Communications Server at life sciences organizations around the world.
The result gives life sciences companies an integrated, high-performance workplace that lets them collaborate and accelerate decision-making across their product lifecycles.
ProtoSphere is the only 3-D virtual collaboration environment to integrate with SharePoint. LiquidHub’s experience in designing, planning, and implementing Microsoft collaboration solutions for life sciences organizations ensures rapid time to value.
Both ProtonMedia and LiquidHub are Microsoft partners and have extensive experience in the life sciences industry. The combination of ProtonMedia’s virtual collaboration technology and LiquidHub’s SharePoint and OCS systems integration expertise enables life sciences organizations to speed decision-making across their product lifecycle, cut costs, and create more effective workplaces.
PPD
PPD is a leading global contract research organization providing drug discovery, development and lifecycle management services. Our clients and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations. With offices in 44 countries and more than 11,000 professionals worldwide, PPD applies innovative technologies, therapeutic expertise and a commitment to quality to help clients and partners accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics and maximize the returns on their R&D investments.
RWD
The partnership between RWD and ProtonMedia will result in the world’s first enterprise-level 3-D immersive workplace for human capital management. It will integrate RWD’s human and operational performance improvement solutions into ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere 3-D virtual workplace product, giving enterprises a high-performance collaborative platform that quickly connects people to their colleagues and to the information they need to meet their customer and workforce requirements.
Organizations that use this new solution will unlock a high-performance workplace—one that improves employee workflow and productivity; increases operational efficiency; and helps develop, manage, and secure the organization’s top talent.
Integrating a 3-D virtual environment into the job performance model immerses the employee into the process and creates a collaborative environment to obtain the learning and performance capability at the moment of need. The result is a more effective organization, accelerated employee development, and immediate access to relevant information.
RWD is a leading provider of human and operational performance improvement solutions that help employers maximize the return on their investments in people, processes, technology, equipment, knowledge, and customers.
Since 1988, RWD has assisted clients and partners in enhancing organizational productivity through its broad range of integrated products and services, which include human capital management and IT consulting services, business transformation and lean process improvement, end-user training, change management, knowledge management, and operator effectiveness management.
RWD’s solutions are used in thousands of organizations globally, and in industries such as manufacturing, energy, automotive, aerospace, health care, life sciences, consumer products, financial services, telecommunications, higher education, and the public sector.
Based in Baltimore, RWD serves Fortune 500 and other organizations around the world. RWD is privately held, with two dozen offices in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.
Sify
ProtonMedia and Sify Software Limited will bring collaborative learning and training solutions to global life sciences companies and other such global organizations worldwide. Within this partnership, e-Learning Customers will be able to meld ProtonMedia’s virtual collaboration environment, Protosphere, with Sify’s learning and instructional design and systems integration services to create a secure and virtual environment that will that help improve knowledge sharing, increase knowledge retention, and boost employee performance.
SIFY is among the largest Managed Enterprise and Consumer Internet Services companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions with a comprehensive range of products delivered over a common telecom data network infrastructure reaching more than 600 cities and towns in India.
A significant part of the company’s revenue is derived from Corporate Services, which include corporate connectivity, network and communications solutions, security, network management services, enterprise applications and hosting. SIFY is a recognized ISO 9001:2008 certified service provider for network operations, data center operations and customer support, and for provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP solutions and integrated security solutions, and ISO / IEC 20000 – 1:2005 certified for Internet Data Center operations. SIFY has licenses to operate NLD (National Long Distance) and ILD (International Long Distance) services and offers VoIP back haul to long distance subscriber telephony services. The company is India’s first enterprise managed services provider to launch a Security Operations Center (SOC) to deliver managed security services. A host of blue chip customers use SIFY’s corporate service offerings.
SIFY also caters to global markets in the specialized domains of eLearning Services and Remote Infrastructure Management Services. The eLearning Services designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art digital learning solutions for non-profit, for-profit organizations and governmental organizations in the fields of Information technology, engineering, environment, healthcare, education and finance. The Remote Infrastructure Management Services provides dependable and economical solutions around managed services, hosting and monitoring.
Consumer services include broadband home access and the ePort cyber café chain across more than 200 cities and towns in India. Sify.com, the popular consumer portal, has channels on news, entertainment, finance, sports, games and shopping. Samachar.com is the popular portal aimed at non-resident Indians around the globe. The site’s content is available in 8 Indian languages, which include Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil, Punjabi and Gujarati in addition to English.
