Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | August 2012 28 Jumbo more cost-effective solution than the larger systems suppliers. “Our system offers all the key functions you need but not the extraneous functions that are not so essential, which are offered by some of the bigger and more expensive systems providers,” says GAMA Managing Director Dale Miao. Although GAMA was formally set up in 2010, the development effort had begun a couple of years before that. Earlier this year, GAMA’s system received Gaming Laboratories International certification GLI- 13, GLI-16 and GLI-17. The GAMA system has been installed in gaming venues in Laos and the Philippines. Later this month ,GLI Peru is also expected to grant the systemcertification in that country, and the company is eyeing Mexico, as well as Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines as part of its expansion efforts. GAMA’s services cover wide-area link management and Internet protocol-based networked jackpots and member data systems that can be shared across multiple locations. The company is also developing a system for tables. GAMA says one of its specialties is integration of all cashier functions— including hand-pay, ticket-in-ticket-out and cashless transactions—via a single workstation. GAMA also offers promotion management in its suite of services, covering reward points, loyalty credits and lottery points. GAMA can also provide blacklist notification on undesirable clients. Mr Miao points out that the GAMA system is constantly getting better. “Every day we are making improvements since we are a lot more flexible and willing to try to make the system better and more user- friendly.” Jumbo Technology Regional Sales Manager Tim Liang Trend spotting—Long Dragon Baccarat GAMA Technology Managing Director Dale Miao Jumbo displayed several new slot games—largely featuring Chinese-based themes such as dragons and phoenixes—at its G2E Asia stand