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“Virtual Worlds and Unified Communications Provide a Collaboration Platform for the US Intelligence Community”


IBM Business Partner, Forterra Systems, Inc., builds virtual world software that helps companies collaborate and train more effectively. Technology innovation, demand for real-time decision making, and rising energy costs are all major forces driving companies and federal agencies to look for new ways to collaborate, train and connect.

“We believe secure virtual worlds integrated with unified communications will enable users to engage the right subject matter experts within and between organizations to analyze complex situations…to help the agencies of the U.S. Intelligence Community collaborate more effectively with one another, with other federal groups, with state and local law enforcement, and with international partners," said Steve Bowsher, EVP Investments, In-Q-Tel

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