Management of the main sites of National Lottery

National Lottery

Long term partnership for the internet projects

The National Lottery was looking for a partner to whom they could assign the maintenance of their main sites, www.lotto.be and www.euromillions.be.

Challenge

Next to the regular maintenance, the National Lottery also asked LBi to develop the complete new website and to keep the statistics regarding all web traffic (Webanalytics).

One of the most important elements of the site is loading every week several times the results of drawing. These results are obviously listed on the website but are also used for a number of statistics and tools which can be found on the website.

Solution

In 2006, LBi has taken on the full maintenance of the existing site. Next to the regular maintenace, there are many other extra developments carried out for the National Lottery, from developing a simple form to setting up a complete web application to do opt-in marketing.

Since the end of 2007, LBi is developing the new website. For this project Tridion is used as CMS combined with numerous custom applications specificly developed for the National Lottery. The main difference is also that a lot of attention is spent on the performance of the system. With three front-end servers and with a maximum on statistic pages the system is capable to intercept the more heavy actions which occur regularly on the webservers (especially with the special drawings with an extra large jack-pot).

In January 2009, the brand new version of the site was released and it is really an example of expertise!

Markets

  • Belgium

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About National Lottery

In the general public interest and in accordance with proper business practices, The National Lottery is responsible for organising public lotteries, betting and competitions in the manner laid down by HRH the King, on the recommendation of the Minister of Telecommunications, Public Enterprises and Participations.

The National Lottery is also responsible for organising games of chance in the manner determined by HRH the King, in a decision taken after consultation in the Council of Ministers, on the recommendation of the Minister responsible and of the Minister of Justice, and after receiving advice from the Lottery Commission, as referred to in article 9 of the law of 7 May 1999 on gambling, gambling establishments and the protection of players. The activity of the National Lottery is deemed to be commercial.

The National Lottery's profit is reserved for financing programs for assistance for devel-oping countries and for purposes of public benefit as determined by a royal decree as discussed in the Council of Ministers.

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