Virtonomics (Virtonomika)

The multiplayer economic online game Virtonomics was started in 2006. At the moment in a game about 1.5 million users worldwide from whom a half of players of Russia, the second half — from the Anglo-and hispanic countries are registered. Virtonomika is positioned as the professional developing business simulator. According to the statements of experts from Accenture and the British Gamificition Nation, Virtonomics for today the most full-scale and multifunction business simulation in the world. A problem of a game — to construct profitable and effective business in the conditions which are brought closer to real.

"Gamification — an important trend in the system of modern educational process. The western companies use simulations for trainings and training for a long time and actively, in Russia this trend also begins to gain steam. Business simulations give practical focus to remote education and allow to make the main thing — create necessary skills", - Menshchikov Sergey, the founder and the CEO of Simformer company commented.

According to S. Menshchikov, the idea of creation based on Virtonomika of the educational project appeared in 2008, but then the market was not ready to such innovations. "In 2013 I got on a conference of Guild of developers of online games in Russia where gave the report on gamification perspectives in business and saw an active response from those hr-specialists who were on an action. I understood that the market is ready to accept what ripened at me in the head 5 years ago. HR managers of the companies realized that classical activities already not really well satisfy requests of users, and began to look for new tools for work. So, our platform is included into the market on the necessary wave", - Menshchikov told.

Virtonomics can help to train specialists in the field of management, business optimization, marketing, human resources and budget planning. Besides, business simulations of Virtonomics vjuen to help you to improve transfer and distribution of corporate knowledge and abilities, to adjust team working and to increase quality of the solution of business challenges.

The product is focused on real world economy, specific business challenges and their results therefore it can be easily integrated into the business strategy of any organization, whether it be state company, private business or educational institution. Being very flexible and dynamic, we focus on continuous development of Virtonomics, putting all novye new economic processes, the industries, goods and services poyatoyanno to improve our product.

Facts and digits:

• Virtonomics dostupena in the Russian, English, Spanish, Ukrainian, French, German and Chinese languages
• On the platform zaregstrirovano more than one million participants of co of the whole world
• Our virtual economy is provided by 25 industries and 146 types of the enterprises

"We present the unique solution and not having analogs at the business education market. There are many known qualitative platforms of distance learning intended for knowledge transfer — Coursera, EdX, Udemy, etc. But practically does not exist in the world of any online platform providing not just knowledge transfer, but also formation of practical skills of business management today. Today this basic of the requirement which is imposed by the customer to business education. The employer does not need abstract knowledge at employees, he needs development of their applied practical skills. The Simformer.com platform which is based on integration of classical LMS (Moodle) and flexible powerful business simulyatsionnoy the Wednesday allowing to integrate practically any training course or a training with the configured business simulation also gives this effect. Besides, and it is essentially important — the Simformer platform is open for third-party developers, allowing to create them the unique trainings and rates and to earn from them not only in Russia, but also worldwide", - S. Menshchikov commented.