Insights for enhanced gaming, stronger communities
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Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- Canada
Product
- HPE GreenLake for storage
- HPE GreenLake for compute
- HPE GreenLake Management Services
- HPE Pointnext Complete Care
- HPE Alletra
- HPE Primera
- HPE StoreOnce
- HPE Synergy
- HPE SimpliVity
- HPE InfoSight
Tech Stack
- Cloud services
- Data management
- Infrastructure automation
- Data backup
- High availability storage
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
- Revenue Growth
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
- Edge Computing & Edge Intelligence
- Inventory Management
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
- Testing & Certification
- Training
About The Customer
The Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) is a non-profit organization that operates lottery and gaming activities on behalf of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, as well as the Yukon, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories. The organization's mission is to deliver increased revenue back to governments, which requires efficient budget planning and insights to understand players and optimize sales. WCLC is looking at data insights to expand and enhance player engagement, attract new markets, and respond to user demands. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the expansion of digital channels, leading to the launch of a new online subscription service.
The Challenge
Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) operates lottery and gaming activities on behalf of several provinces and territories in Canada. The non-profit organization's mission is to deliver increased revenue back to governments, which requires efficient budget planning and insights to understand players and optimize sales. However, WCLC's legacy stack was not ideal for gaming operations. Infrastructure had grown along with business needs through siloed purchases, leading to lifecycle management issues, where parts of the environment were off support or nearly there. To meet growing customer expectations, the organization needed to increase its systems' performance.
The Solution
WCLC adopted a consumption-based platform, driving costs down to give more money back to fund services that benefit local populations. The organization and its partner Powerland found a solution to transform beyond the data center: the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform, which accelerates and simplifies the way WCLC acquires, plans, and expands IT to support its business. With the HPE GreenLake platform, WCLC gets compute and storage as cloud services-fully deployed on-premises. The HPE GreenLake platform at WCLC also includes HPE Synergy, which accelerated application performance up to 3x compared to the previous system; HPE InfoSight with AI-driven infrastructure automation prevents potential issues or downtime; HPE StoreOnce for data backup; HPE SimpliVity running security and network tools to ensure high availability; and HPE Primera storage, which delivers 100% uptime guarantee.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
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