Cricinfo.com Delivering Cricket Results in Real Time


Case Study Executive Summary

Solution Overview

“In the final stages of completing the software we were releasing updates every couple of days, so it had the potential to be quite complex but the Smart Client application has made it a non-issue.”
Matt Pickering
Business Development Manager
Lupo Data Concepts

Customer Profile
Cricinfo is the world's leading cricket website, ranked number one in all of its major markets. The site was founded in 1993, and offers live ball-by-ball coverage of all Test and one-day international matches, news and features.

Web Site
www.cricinfo.com

Industry
Entertainment and Media

Customer Size
Large

Business Situation
Cricinfo.com had out-grown its previous technology set-up and, with new cricket rules introduced by the ICC, needed to rebuild the scoring application that runs behind its website.

Solution Summary
Feedback Sport, in partnership with Lupo Data Concepts, developed a bespoke application that feeds real-time scoring information into the Cricinfo.com website.

Value to Business

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Scalability of site offers new functionality for customers

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Reliability

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Return on investment

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Real-time results

Value to IT

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Fast, easy deployment

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Security

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Access to match information and historical data

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Point-and-click interface

Microsoft Technology

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional

Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Microsoft Windows 2003 Web Edition

.NET framework 2.0

Internet Information Server

ASP .NET

T-SQL Stored Procedures

Visual Basic .NET

Partner:
Lupo Data Concepts
Tel: +64 3 377 1166
Web: lupo.net.nz