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PMU’s IT system processed more than 5 billion of transactions in 2009. They system is designed and steered to ensure maximum service availability in order to enable real-time processing and payment. Teams work year-round, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to ensure that it runs properly. Thanks to this unflagging attention, all of the bet placement systems are fully available, at the sales outlets, at pmu.fr and on mobile, as is the Infocentre during Grand Prix races, despite the crush of demand that naturally arises from their success. PMU’s IT system also makes it possible to ensure swift payment of winnings to punters. In 2009, the winnings of Simple bets were paid within an average of 81 seconds.

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Information technology

For bets to be smoothly processed for every race, regardless of betting medium used, processing and payment of winnings, developments in betting and service offerings, etc., PMU’s IT expertise needs to be efficient.

IT as a centrepiece to gambling

PMU’s central IT infrastructure is designed to manage operations on multiple channels. It must be capable of handling, in real-time, bets from anywhere across its system, which encompasses 15,000 terminals and 2,080 interactive stands at the sales outlets, 60 racetracks linked to the network, 300,000 punter accounts at pmu.fr, not to mention mobile phones. In addition, bets are all received from PMU’s foreign partners connected to the system. This system feeds into a central database, from which all of the data used in processing bets originates.

 400 improvements and upgrades per year"

Event management

The originality of the PMU’s IT system, in addition to its power, lies in the fact that it must support very large surges in activity, during bet placement peaks, in particular during the last five minutes prior to the start of the Quinté+. 20% of a day’s turnover comes in the hour before the start of the Quinté+ race. High activity is similarly supported during Grand Prix days. In 2009, 9.3 million different bets were posted on the Prix d’Amérique – Marionnaud race alone, and 9.35 million on Prix de France.

A highly upgrade-friendly system

PMU’s information system needs to constantly adapt to technical progress and changes in the offers and services made available to punters. With Interne-tbased business growing (up to 28,000 users connected at once), the development of bet placement by iPhone, new services, etc., each year, the system is continually transformed and upgraded –meaning nearly 400 improvements and upgrades per year! With the sports betting market due for deregulation, PMU will call upon leading technical partners to work alongside it. The system for sports betting will use Orbis’ bet placement platform software and be interconnected with that of Paddy Power, the two running in parallel.

 

Mor informations

Availability in real time
PMU has been running an action plan designed to improve the reliability of its IT system
IT system runs every day
of the year
 
If you want to find out more about the PMU's international offer, please contact: Aymeric Verlet PMU International Development Direction E-mail : ddi.ddi@pmu.fr
Telephone : +33 1 56 09 94 00
 
If you want to find out more about the PMU's international offer or what we could do for you, please contact: Florence Gras EPMA - European Pari Mutuel Association E-mail : florence.gras@parimutuel-europe.org
Telephone : +322 401 61 65