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Australian software company, Media and Gaming, has had its first overseas sale of its software betting platform to the New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) which the company claims will “revolutionise wagering systems worldwide”.
Media and Gaming managing director, Nicholas
Plowman, said today, the multi-million sale of its Typhoon betting
system to NZ Racing was designed by the company in collaboration with
tywo local developersdevover three years. He said the system
“overcomes the numerous limitations embedded in the software of most
wagering companies throughout the world, thereby delivering major
operational and commercial benefits to them.”
According to Plowman, the contract between NZRB and Media & Gaming
“will result in a commercial and technology-based partnership which
will ensure the NZRB can take a leading position in an increasingly
competitive global entertainment market.”
The CEO of the NZRB, Andrew Brown, said that, as part of the board’s
modernisation strategy, the NZRB conducted a worldwide search for the
“most efficient and reliable betting platform and Typhoon was selected
as the best and most cost-effective option.
“Along with a fast and reliable service, Typhoon will significantly
improve the NZRB’s capacity to compete against offshore operators and
enable us to be much more agile and responsive in meeting the needs of
the industry and our customers.”
According to Nicholas Plowman, ”tote operations throughout the world
run on legacy systems that do not enable them to compete against more
technology advanced gaming enterprises. This is holding racing back in
its attempts to match it against other forms of global entertainment.
Typhoon goes a long way to solving these problems.
“Quite simply Typhoon is the most highly advanced and technically
superior wagering system currently available in the world today,”
Plowman claimed, adding that there were “several key advantages of the
new Typhoon betting system,” including it being significantly cheaper
to acquire, operate and maintain, and “enhancing an organisation’s
existing products and introduce new products in a fast and efficient
process.”
Plowman said Typhoon was designed and developed by Australian father
and son team, Arnold and Greg Kopff, who joined up with Media and
Gaming in 2006, to develop the system.
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