At the beginning of the conference, Sanz assured that GSA “is an extremely important concepto in the systems part. Inter-operability is basic facing the future; it is useless to have many systems and machines if they do not have any connection. The way in which everything is efficient is based in an inter-operability concept.”
“What we obtain when we apply the standards is a basic architecture with a network”, he added, and they explained the different types of systems and connections of the machines in the gambling venues. “This tool will allow the operator that the information reaches all the operational systems and allows to use it real time to improve the operations,” he concluded.
Then, DeRaedt made a brief overview on GSA history, its membership and the mission of the association, and also commented the advantages of Internet for those cases. “We are a non-profit organization. The only way to operate is through the payment from members, which kept on growing. We are an organization of international commerce. We represent manufacturers, providers and operators on the gaming industry. Since 2002, we are looking for a change and seven years later it was developed a document through which the manufacturer is certified in order to eliminate problems in the field,” he commented.
“We use open standards and want the adoption through trainning. That’s why it was open GSA university, because we want to issue the knowledge worldwide,” concluded DeRaedt.
One of the companies envolved with GSA is Transact, which is member of the board of directors with the aim to bring a better customer service, to casino operators and manufacturers of machines. Charnay explained: “If we have a venue that has a standardization with our products or our competence, we know that, this way, our product may reach all the markets,” commented Charnay, who talked about the benefits of standardization.