Robert Schwegler, Chief Architect, bwin

Robert has 17 years of experience in the IT industry with the focus on high-volume systems. He is Head of Architecture & Tools & QA at bwin acting also as Chief Architect. Current focus of his work is on establishing a matching architectural and organizational setup in an internationally agile distributed software development environment.

Presentation: "Bwin - P5 a future proof Poker platform"

Track: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Time: Wednesday 10:30 - 11:30

Location: Fleming Room

Abstract:

Europe's No.1 online gaming provider has built P5 its new poker platform empowering 25 international poker operators to implement unique white label/SaaS solutions. One of the main challenges has been to combine high requirements on Stability, Scalability and Flexibility.

The vision was to build a system that combines

The Stability of a banking system
The Flexibility of Lego bricks
The Scalability of a Massive multiplayer online game, like World of Warcraft

P5 reached its goals by achieving a unique level of decomposition and modularization. It is built on a single underlying poker integration platform based on SOA and EDA architectural best practices. This foundation supports an increasing range of multinational regulatory gaming requirements enabling various integration scenarios for large scale cost efficiency. Key principles include functional decomposition, environment abstraction and encapsulation of core business logic.

Keywords: Architecture, SOA, Scalability, Availability, Enterprise, High-volume e-commerce, Gaming

Target Audience: Architects, System Desginers and Senior Developers will hear about the challenges of bwin's next generation poker platform in context of complexity drivers like time2market, flexibility for business opportunities & regulative constraints and overall cost efficiency