International Game Technology (IGT) has prolonged contracts with the Kentucky Lottery, making sure that its subsidiary IGT Global Solutions Corporation will retain to replace the lottery operator till 2036.
IGT will deliver Kentucky Lottery with its Aurora platform, offering point-of-sale retail factors for 3,four hundred shops throughout the US.
Mary R. Harville, Kentucky Lottery Corporation President and CEO, said: “The Kentucky Lottery has partnered with IGT on account that operations first started and we’ve persisted to search for ways, in partnership with IGT, to modernise our services over the past 30-plus years.
“Enhancing our lottery answers with IGT’s retail and iLottery structures and handy self-provider retail terminals will offer greater possibilities for us to responsibly develop our income and go back extra budget for scholarships and presents for Kentucky university students.”
In addition to the Aurora retail hardware, IGT will even set up cloud integration offerings for the upgraded iLottery system.
Jay Gendron, IGT COO Global Lottery, said: “The Kentucky Lottery has continually been at the vanguard of lottery innovation and IGT is thrilled to retain assisting those modernisation efforts.
“IGT’s future-ahead mind-set and next-technology product portfolio are crucial in present day evolving lottery space.
“Over the subsequent 10 years, we can construct upon our longstanding partnership with the Kentucky Lottery and set up our state-of-the-art generation to similarly decorate the participant experience.”
Under the brand new contract, IGT will supply 4,000 Retailer Pro terminals to Kentucky Lottery outlets and 850 GameTouch™ 28 lottery merchandising machines.
Srini Nedunuri, IGT SVP Global iLottery, said: “In 2016, the Kentucky Lottery have become certainly considered one among IGT’s first US clients to release an iLottery programme.
“Since then, IGT has labored with the Kentucky Lottery to triple the wide variety of on line draw video games to be had to players, in addition to offer a great portfolio of compelling eInstant video games.
“IGT’s cloud-primarily based totally iLottery platform will provide the Lottery greater flexibility, elevated analytics and a complete suite of superior participant–control capabilities and accountable gaming tools.”
IGT isn’t always the most effective employer though, as Kentucky Lottery also prolonged its contracts with Scientific Games for its virtual Customer Relationship Management (CRM) offerings.