By Michel Denis
Internet 3 Solutions
http://mondesvirtuels3dcollaboratifs.blogspot.com/
Like in airplane cockpits, the management of an enterprise requires gathering the three main engines of the modern enterprise: the decision makers, the knowledge (e.g. business intelligence dashboards and applications), and the tools to start implementing the decisions and roll up the actions.
Cockpit Enterprise 3D, a virtual management cockpit
Talking to the top management of major French multinationals, we discovered that corporations suffer from several major problems:
- Lack of access to the right set of business intelligence documents/data, typically decision-level dashboards, during key meetings;
- High costs of travel (prices and time spent) for some decision makers to join physical management meetings;
- Absence of key decision makers at some important top-level management meetings which often prevent top-level managers from making fast and quality decisions at the right time.
The solution to the above challenges was to design and implement a virtual space that allows:
- Ubiquitous access from anywhere using an Internet / Intranet connection;
- Inclusion of any existing business intelligence dashboards or applications;
- Audio communication with external people.
The benefits of the resulting Open Wonderland-based Cockpit Enterprise 3D application include:
- Better and accelerated decisions;
- Better performance of management teams;
- Reduction in costs associated with travel and physical room equipment;
- Integration of existing business intelligence tools and infrastructure.
Open Wonderland key features that allowed us to design and build this functional virtual management cockpit include:
- Ease of adding business intelligence documents, on-demand, using drag & drop;
- Flexibility to run business intelligence applications (like JasperReports or SAP) from inside the cockpit, in shared mode;
- Integrated telephony functionality, allowing external users to join the discussions, participate in the decisions, and … get the actions!
- Extended security, to ensure that top level conversations are kept confidential within a secured space;
- Tools to create “mixed reality” environments that synchronize video and audio in real time between physical meeting rooms and the virtual cockpit.
The figure below shows the high-level architecture of the virtual management cockpit:
Cockpit Enterprise 3D Architecture
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