The Swiss intercantonal national lottery SWISSLOS is now using FIRSTspirit as the central content management system for maintaining Euro Millions
This means that the popular lottery game is available to Swiss players for the first time on the Internet
e-Spirit, a wholly owned subsidiary of adesso AG and manufacturer of the content management system FIRSTspirit, successfully implemented yet another lottery project in January 2007. At www.euromillions.ch, the Swiss can now play for a sizable Europe-wide jackpot.
Participants from across Europe compete with each other for the multimillion euro main prize—that’s the idea behind Euro Millions, the new European coordinated lottery game. In the participating countries (participation is not possible in Germany), local lottery companies run Euro Millions autonomously—according to their own conditions for participation and at their own expense. But the game rules and the winning numbers are the same for everyone. The takings from all Euro Millions countries are pooled, making weekly jackpots of up to 100 million possible.
The Swiss lottery company SWISSLOS launched its new online portal in spring 2006. As general contractor, Swisscom IT Services had been assigned the task of implementing the new SWISSLOS game platform, with the help of e-Spirit and other partners. e-Spirit partner company Planetactive was responsible for the GUI, while e-Spirit and adesso contributed their lottery expertise for the technical implementation.
With the expansion of the platform in 2007, the Internet lottery game Euro Millions was introduced for the first time in Switzerland. For this, it was necessary to offer users an intuitive interface in German, Italian and French. The particular challenge was to keep the international flavor of the product while respecting the country-specific conditions for participation. All Swiss players are referred to their appropriate lottery company based on their place of residence. In Switzerland, Euro Millions is operated jointly by SWISSLOS (German-speaking Switzerland, Ticino and the Principality of Liechtenstein) and Loterie Romande (western Switzerland).
FIRSTspirit gives editors an easy-to-use tool to maintain content on www.euromillions.ch. FIRSTspirit supports multiple clients, thus ensuring that the different companies and their customers are kept clearly separate from each other.
The SWISSLOS offering can be accessed via 60 domains, including swisslotto.ch, Sporttipp.ch, and euromillions.ch. Each site is presented with its own look and feel.
