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Business Plan Assessment & Review
We have been involved in dozens of gambling projects. We provide services which audit and report on the likely success (or otherwise) of gambling related business plans.
Our knowledge of the economics of gambling businesses enables us to offer a business plan assessments and reviews.
Gaming Associates principals include the world's first interactive gambling regulator and the world's first regulated interactive gaming tester. We are considered the world's foremost regulated internet gambling experts. Our consultants have appeared as expert witnesses before Senate Select Committees and other Parliamentary enquiries since the mid-1990's.
Consulting to regulatory authorities in relation to effective interactive gambling regulation is a core competency, undertaken since our inception in 1998
Government Liaison
Effective government liaison and advocacy is key sustainable profit maximisation.
Gaming Associates are world leading experts in relation to interactive gambling regulation. We provide valuable services to interactive gambling applicants, vendors, and operators as advocates or liaison with the government and regulatory bodies.
Ineffective advocacy can lead to over zealous regulation and ultimately unsustainable costs to industry (e.g. Isle of Man pre-2004).
Gaming Associates principals include the world's first interactive gambling regulator and the world's first regulated interactive gaming tester. We are considered the world's foremost regulated internet gambling experts. Our consultants have appeared as expert witnesses before Senate Select Committees and other Parliamentary enquiries since the mid-1990's.
Consulting to regulatory authorities in relation to effective interactive gambling regulation is a core competency, undertaken since our inception in 1998.
Vendor Selection & Management
Gaming Associates has first hand experience with most vendors in the interactive gambling world. We have extensive experience in preparing business requirements, and functional specification documents relating to complex interactive gambling and other technology-based gambling systems.
We therefore, provide vendor selection services - based on the specific needs of the investor.
Contract negotiation, and management of vendor deliverables, on behalf of the acquiring party is essential for successful interactive gambling industries. Gaming Associates provides vendor project management services. Our principal consultants have a long and successful track record of managing vendors in the gambling industry over more than a decade.
Gaming Associates principals include the world's first interactive gambling regulator and the world's first regulated interactive gaming tester. We are considered the world's foremost regulated internet gambling experts. Our consultants have appeared as expert witnesses before Senate Select Committees and other Parliamentary enquiries since the mid-1990's.
Consulting to regulatory authorities in relation to effective interactive gambling regulation is a core competency, undertaken since our inception in 1998.
Tester Management
Gaming Associates provides accredited test facility management services. This can be essential if costs are to be contained and project objectives achieved.
Our expert consultants have been managing test laboratories since the early 1990's. We have an intimate knowledge of their practices, and the actual requirements of the regulatory authority. Effective tester management protects interactive gambling quality and success.
Gaming Associates principals include the world's first interactive gambling regulator and the world's first regulated interactive gaming tester. We are considered the world's foremost regulated internet gambling experts. Our consultants have appeared as expert witnesses before Senate Select Committees and other Parliamentary enquiries since the mid-1990's.
Consulting to regulatory authorities in relation to effective interactive gambling regulation is a core competency, undertaken since our inception in 1998.
Project Management
Our consultants have managed small and large scale regulated gambling projects since 1990 , interactive gambling projects from the mid-1990's.
We combine our expert interactive gambling business, interactive gambling regulation, and interactive gambling project skills to provide on-time, on-budget, quality projects. All stakeholders responsibilities are documented, tracked and managed throughout the process.
Outsourcing project management, allows would-be operators and vendors to focus on core operational responsibilities. Thus this service proves useful in allowing projects to achieve objectives threatening operational strategies and budgets.
On-time conclusion of interactive gambling projects are essential to move from the "spending" project phase to the "revenue" generating operational phase. Gaming Associates facilitate timely approval and business commencement
Internal Controls & Operating Procedures
Gaming Associates core competency relates to risk management and governance, particularly in relation to interactive gambling industries - this is a core competency
Security
Gaming Associates provides information security consulting services in the context of e-commerce gambling. E-commerce gambling operates in a hostile threat environment, Gaming Associates have been managing these scenarios for customers since the mid-1990's.
Importantly, we provide both holistic business security view, drilling down to specific information security implementations on components of the business. Our formal risk management basis for information security ensures a cost-effective solution, which meets business needs.
Gaming Associates principals include the world's first interactive gambling regulator and the world's first regulated interactive gaming tester. We are considered the world's foremost regulated internet gambling experts. Our consultants have appeared as expert witnesses before Senate Select Committees and other Parliamentary enquiries since the mid-1990's.
Consulting to regulatory authorities in relation to effective interactive gambling regulation is a core competency, undertaken since our inception in 1998.
Compliance Programs
Gaming Associates core competency relates to risk management and governance in interactive gambling industries. The establishment, operation, and maintenance of effective compliance programmes is a core competency. Alternately, we are accomplished in the evaluation of existing compliance programmes, with treatment recommendations.
We utilise formal AS/NZS4360 compliant risk management practices, our decades of regulated casino experience, C OBI T, and AS3806 to offer world's best practice compliance programmes for interactive gambling operators.
All considerations are documented with Methodware's Enterprise Risk Assessor - ERA to ensure continuity of effort and transfer of intellectual property to customers.
Gaming Associates principals include the world's first interactive gambling regulator and the world's first regulated interactive gaming tester. We are considered the world's foremost regulated internet gambling experts. Our consultants have appeared as expert witnesses before Senate Select Committees and other Parliamentary enquiries since the mid-1990's.
Consulting to regulatory authorities in relation to effective interactive gambling regulation is a core competency, undertaken since our inception in 1998
Support & Training
Gaming Associates is a world leader in effective interactive gambling regulation and efficient compliance.
We provide on-site support and training for management and staff relating to all programmes implemented. This ensures complete post-consultancy support and knowledge transfer to client staff.
This on-site training allows operators to continue their operational duties, without diversion to less frequently required tasks - leading to efficiencies.
Gaming Associates principals include the world's first interactive gambling regulator and the world's first regulated interactive gaming tester. We are considered the world's foremost regulated internet gambling experts. Our consultants have appeared as expert witnesses before Senate Select Committees and other Parliamentary enquiries since the mid-1990's.
Consulting to regulatory authorities in relation to effective interactive gambling regulation is a core competency, undertaken since our inception in 1998.
Advanced Empirical Gambling Evaluation & Analysis Service (AEGEAS)
We have implemented an Advanced Empirical Gambling Evaluation & Analysis Service (AEGEAS). This service provides the world's most Advanced Empirical Gambling Evaluation & Analysis Services, our scales of economy mean that these advanced services are now available to gambling regulators and operators in a cost-effective way.
This state-of-the-art detection tool provides cost-effective controls, which detect anomalies. Appropriate regulation includes detection-type controls over and above preventative-type controls (e.g. testing). This service provides cost-effective protection of the operators gaming profits.
Gaming Associates developed AEGEAS, based on the collaboration of more than 15 consecutive years successfully analysing technology-based gambling data and systems, PhD expert systems (artificial intelligence), and PhD statistics.
Thus ensuring real and artificial intelligence is applied to each business and industry - based on performance garnished from industries around the world.
Accredited Test Facility (ATF)
Internationally recognised Accredited Test Facility (ATF) services are provided by Gaming Associates.
We offer the world's most experienced and accredited tester - heading up an appropriately experienced and capable team.
While ATF accreditation from regulatory authorities requires Gaming Associates to undertake compliance testing. Our reports take a holistic consideration of interactive gambling systems (control systems, business processes, and computer systems). Our formal AS/NZS4360 compliant reporting process ensures compensating controls are considered - this contrast to the compliance check lists which have subjected many interactive gambling businesses to un-sustainable costs.
We are able to utilise these skills in conjunction with true risk management or as required by compliance requirements of various regulatory regimes
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