Customer Profile
The National Hockey League is the organizational
and administrative body for professional
ice hockey in the USA and Canada. Their
website, www.nhl.com,
is one of the most trafficked sports web sites
in the world with over 12 million visitors per
month.
Challenge
The NHL's internal and external customers needed
organized, accurate and relevant information
from the league’s complex information databank.
The databank’s existing 250 views in 50
applications did not serve the reporting needs
of its users. The NHL needed to design and generate
140 reports immediately from these Notes applications
to satisfy their customers’ information
and analysis needs.
The NHL required a highly versatile reporting
solution that would generate various reports
that would be available over the web and easily
printable. The reports would be used by statisticians
and commentators for spot analysis as well as
by team officials.
Solution
IntelliPRINT Reporting for Domino was found to have
the diverse set of features the NHL required.
The 140 different report types the NHL needed,
including player reports, match summary reports
and schedules, were created easily and saved
quickly through the IntelliPRINT Reporting Format designer.
These report formats could then be accessed over
the Web in Internet Explorer or Netscape, through
an open agent query sent to a Domino Server.
Once created, the reports could be exported to
a PDF format using IntelliPRINT Reporting and sent
to commentators, statisticians and analysts at
NHL games.
Though NHL's Domino applications were running
on AS400, it was possible for the NHL to view
the IntelliPRINT reports and precise printable
outputs from an AS400 server to a browser, because
IntelliPRINT Reporting has a Domino version for AS400.
Business Benefits
- IntelliPRINT Reporting automated the NHL's web
report and information delivery process.
- Cut the time spent on this issue by the NHL's
IT Department by 80%!
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