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%!