GENiSYS one fully integrated central on-line gaming system, which has been designed to capitalize on the ‘best of breed’ assets of the different channels of lottery systems around the world. The system has been designed to provide seamless expansion to support growth features and functionality, and implemented using Agile methodology in software development.
It is critical that the on-line transaction processing system be robust and maintain the integrity that is paramount to protecting the data assets and image of the National Lottery. The GENiSYS system controls all communications with the retailer terminals and logs every transaction to the ticket file.
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What is All-In-One
GENiSYS is an extremely reliable gaming platform that is capable of high-volume, high-performance lottery transaction processing, performs all game-related software functions flawlessly, has the capability to create, modify, or add games to the system rapidly, extracts data to meet market and analytics requirements, and guarantees that all processed transactions maintain the security, integrity, and reliability of the National Lottery.
Implement high availability and fault tolerance, the solution is architected with main and backup data centers to provide sufficient redundancy, and failover mechanism to ensure system uptime. Besides of land-based business including POS terminals and vending machines, it also allows mobile devices accessing to implement interactive lottery business.
From business operation perspective, the management portal allows lottery operator and regulator to access to the central gaming system for management and supervision. All data generated from point of access, and being processed by the system, is managed in different functional modules.
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Key Differentiators
In traditional lottery solutions, and its operational management functions of lottery are implemented and distributed in each and every system platform, due to lottery license and project bidding. It brings huge disadvantages to lottery operation: Working Effort Some common management efforts in the business are conducted repeatedly among different system platforms. For example, in the land-based lottery, retailers sell draw-based games and physical instant tickets. Operators always have to maintain and manage retailer information, authorization, and terminal assignment in two systems – an online lottery system and a physical instant ticket system.
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Working Effort
Some common management efforts in the business are conducted repeatedly among different system platforms.
For example, in the land-based lottery, retailers sell draw-based games and physical instant tickets. Operators always have to maintain and manage retailer information, authorization, and terminal assignment in two systems – an online lottery system and a physical instant ticket system.
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Extensibility
In traditional lottery project delivery, when architecting software and applications, technical engineers are limited by the project scope and lack thinking of extensibility. The architecture and software system are limited and cannot support adding on new business.
For example, adding iLottery to land-based business, or adding e-Instant to land-based business.
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Omnichannel
Since omnichannel is player-centralized, the traditional lottery platform does not support data exchange among different sub-systems. To implement omnichannel, it requires additional efforts and costs in the development of system interfacing among its sub-systems. Especially, the developments are always difficult and apathetic if the sub-systems were developed by different technical providers.
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State-Of-The-Art
Kubernetes, a Google product, with container orchestration capabilities, seamlessly manages and scales a lottery platform's diverse set of games and services. Containers, as the lightweight and portable units, promised consistency across various environments, ensuring smooth deployment and operation. Traditional sub-systems like Instants, E-Instants, Sports Pools, can now be containerized and exist in a single-platform ecosystem along with online games. Embracing Kubernetes and containerization would enable GENLOT to adapt quickly to changing market demands and introduce new games and features effortlessly.
For State-owned lotteries who wish to run their own operations and take part-ownership in developing their own containers specific to unique games or services, Kubernetes technology makes it possible to support a mix and match landscape of state-owned containers and technology supplier’s containers.
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