LINWOOD, NJ and PITTSBURGH, PA--(Marketwire - Jun 6, 2012) - The gaming industry's leading research and analytics firm, Spectrum Gaming Group, has joined forces with the world's premier provider of data analysis, Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA), to assist the gaming industry as it prepares for legal online wagering in the United States.
Spectrum Gaming Group (www.spectrumgaming.com) and MSA (www.msa.com) are leveraging their respective expertise in gaming and data analysis to help their clients identify opportunities and develop new business models as they enter the data-rich online-gaming industry.
The two global firms, which share a commitment to quality, are the co-producers of Spectrumetrix (www.spectrumetrix.com), a robust source of gaming data that includes enhanced, web-based, dynamic versions of Spectrum's various reports which hundreds of gaming operators, equipment manufacturers, analysts, investors, regulators, attorneys and other gaming-related professionals have come to trust.
"MSA and Spectrum are well positioned to provide meaningful insights from the wealth of data that will be generated by the online gaming community through the use of advanced analytical, processing and 'Big Data' capabilities," said Dr. Alfred Kuehn, Chairman of MSA.
"Online wagering will generate an avalanche of new, constantly streaming data for commercial operators, tribal operators, lotteries and other providers," said Spectrum Managing Director Michael Pollock. "Working with MSA, our team can help our public- and private-sector clients identify opportunities and patterns, and we can help our clients craft strategies to capture those opportunities."
MSA, incorporated in 1963, has offices in Pittsburgh; Las Vegas; New York; Atlanta; Highpoint, N.C.; Shanghai, China; Cardiff, U.K.; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and has developed technology to process data 10 to 50 times faster than traditional methods.
Spectrum, founded in 1993, has served governments, gaming operators, developers and investors in five continents. Spectrum was honored by Inc. Magazine, which named Spectrum to the 2008 and the 2009 Inc. 5000 List of the Fastest Growing Companies in the United States. In offering such recognition, Inc. Magazine noted, "A focus on integrity has allowed Spectrum to thrive."
Spectrum and its sister company, Spectrum OSO Asia, serve a growing list of government agencies and private clients through offices in Atlantic City, Bangkok, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Miami and Tokyo.