Industries OLIVE Supports

Industries We Support

Accelerating government and corporate virtual collaboration, teamwork and training.

Immersive virtual environments built on SAIC's OLIVE platform provide healthcare, medial and life sciences, government and defense, public sector, higher education, and industry with highly flexible training, rehearsal and collaboration applications. Within OLIVE's private, secure virtual world, employees, managers, trainers, and affiliated partners can gather for realistic discussions, presentations, training, exercises, rehearsals, and operations-anytime and anyplace with Internet access on a global basis.

OLIVE 3D virtual worlds can:

• Accelerate time to insight and decision-making
• Improve collaboration and teamwork
• Reduce training and travel costs
• Increase the training delivery capacity for training staff
• Make efficient use of senior management, thought leaders and subject matter experts
• Accelerate the time to achieve competence
• Improve coordination of inter organizational activity
• Minimize operational error for dangerous job tasks in challenging environments and locations
• Speed capture, dissemination, and application of lessons learned for the corporation

Enabling virtual healthcare, medical and life sciences applications

SAIC is leading innovative applications of OLIVE virtual world and simulation technologies in solving today's problems and designing solutions for tomorrow's challenges in the healthcare, medical and life sciences arenas.

OLIVE supports:

• Increased effectiveness in nurse and doctor training without jeopardizing patient safety
• Reduced medical errors through improved communication and team skills developed in the virtual world
• Use of sophisticated, physiological medical models that calculate the conditions, behaviors, and responses of patient avatars
• Improved training of drug sales personnel through realistic 3D doctor visits and detailing of medical product sales and service personnel around 3D products
• Sharing of best practices among global teams of medical, professional and sales personnel.
• Delivery of immersive behavior therapy and rehabilitation
• Expanded training opportunities to a wider spectrum of caregivers and outreach programs

Supporting government and defense training, rehearsal and operations

Government leaders are seeking technology that exploits the ubiquitous Internet and creates new business models for the 21st century. Government and national security organizations need virtual enterprise solutions to quickly respond to a dynamically changing world. Today, agencies must rapidly develop and deploy secure, effective team environments for complex collaboration and rehearsal on national and global scales and the involvement of hundreds of people from across departments and jurisdictions.

The OLIVE virtual world platform provides a service-oriented, private, secure virtual environment for collaboration, training, simulation, and planning.

Government and defense applications of virtual worlds encompass:

• Mission rehearsal, including cultural and locale training
• Emergency preparedness and emergency operations center
• Collaboration and information sharing
• Tactical team training
• Recruiting
• Continuity of operations (COOP)
• Public education and outreach
• Disaster and incident management exercises
• Situation/war rooms and operations

Enabling complex public sector coordination and response

OLIVE delivers virtual world solutions that enable civilian and defense public sector organizations to:

• Model and experience people, culture, buildings, places and environments anywhere in the world
• Model real physics and operations for vehicles, equipment and their effects
• Conduct after-action reviews
• Provide enterprise-grade access control and content updates
• Comply with the World Geodetic System (WGS-84)-compliant, geospatially referenced model and support large area and multi-resolution, real-world terrain
• Import standard data 3D modeling formats, including COLLAborative Design Activity (COLLADA), Autodesk^® and 3DS Max^® to preserve government-developed intellectual property
• Work with legacy simulations using distributed interactive simulation (DIS) and high level architecture (HLA) protocols. The SAIC OLIVE team provides security-cleared support personnel to help your organization achieve its objectives.

Streamlining access to and delivery of higher education

Professionals in all types of careers need to augment on-the-job experience with participation in advanced, career development and enrichment programs featuring subject matter experts. But finding the time to attend these programs can be a challenge.

The OLIVE virtual platform supports an interactive, multimedia, formal learning curriculum and informal knowledge sharing among hundreds of professionals simultaneously around the globe. OLIVE eliminates the time and cost associated with traveling to participate in advanced education and professional programs.

OLIVE training applications include:

• Formal classroom and institutional instruction, web-based or instructor-led
• Lectures, briefings, and panel discussions in realistic, 3D environments
• Sales associate, customer service, call center, and leadership training, coaching and mentoring
• Integration with Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM^®)-compliant training, flash, or other learning digital media content
• Capability for using a variety of rich media such as drag-and-drop Microsoft^® documents, PowerPoint^® slides, streaming videos or presentation of desktop applications onto in world screens

Accelerating corporate and industry collaboration teamwork and training

OLIVE virtual worlds help organizations to:

• Accelerate time to insight and decision-making
• Improve collaboration and teamwork
• Reduce training and travel costs
• Increase the training delivery capacity for training staff
• Make efficient use of senior management, thought leaders and subject matter experts
• Accelerate the time to achieve competence
• Improve coordination of inter organizational activity
• Minimize operational error for dangerous job tasks in challenging environments and locations
• Speed capture, dissemination, and application of lessons learned for the corporation and industry