Technology Magazine August 2018 | Page 16

PADDY POWER BETFAIR
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“ BOTH PADDY POWER AND BETFAIR

HAD VERY STRONG TECHNOLOGY

ASSETS TO DRAW ON , SO WE BUILT OUR NEW STACK ‘ I2 ’ ON THE BEST OF BOTH ”

— Cathal Sheridan ,
Technology Director
organisation and create the optimum private cloud and CD pipeline configuration .”
From there , the full design of i2 was established and PPB set about creating a global platform capable of serving multiple products to millions of customers across its many brands and geographies . This became a fundamental integration work stream within the newly merged entity .
By rapidly decommissioning its
‘ heritage ’ stacks in favour of its new i2 architecture , PPB has on-boarded almost all of its service catalogue to the new infrastructure to provide the benefits of the ‘ software defined everything ’ environment as early as possible .
“ This was about enabling innovation by expediting the product and feature delivery process . We knew this would also have a positive impact on our ability to resolve service issues through
AUGUST 2018