HERMES SoftLab fully equipped to support Games to System Protocol

HERMES SoftLab, leading software engineering services and IT solutions company for the gaming industry has today announced it is now fully equipped to support G2S (Games to System) protocol ensuring delivery of the next generation of gaming platforms to its gaming industry customers.

Set to revolutionize the land based gaming industry, G2S is the communication protocol that unlocks the power of networked gaming and is set to become the way information is exchanged between a gaming device and the back end systems.

HERMES SoftLab G2S enables gaming operators to develop new and simple functions in communication between various systems used in their gaming portfolio. The protocol also enables fast and simple additions of new functions for players – a key asset for efficient and competitive business operations. By utilising the new G2S protocol operators have the opportunity to offer players a set of customised games or other services based on their past individual user experience."

Full scale G2S floors are expected by late 2009 and the HERMES SoftLab G2S building block carries the capabilities to phase the new system in with its customer's existing back end to ensure the application co-exists effortlessly and is delivered in record time.

Gregor Smrekar, CEO of HERMES SoftLab stated "One of HERMES SoftLab's strategic focuses is the development of Software Engineering Services IT Solutions for the Gaming Industry. With an exceptional development capacity and a long and successful history of Software Engineering for major International Companies, HERMES SoftLab employs more than 800 experts in Central Europe with R&D Labs in the Adriatic Region and Western Europe. Our Gaming Competence Center is constantly developing new concepts and technical solutions for the gaming industry, all this with one goal – to offer Services and Solutions with our building blocks and our gaming expertise, which ensures competitiveness and successful business for our clients."

Ales Gornjec, Business Development Manager for gaming at HERMES SoftLab "At HERMES SoftLab, one of the major developers of software for the gaming industry, we firmly believe that the development of gaming will rely on a new generation gaming software that supports server-based gaming concepts. The G2S protocol we developed at HERMES SoftLab is a key building block for this."

Media Enquiries Only:

Esther Whitehead
GameOn Marketing
M: +44 (0) 7875 961 828
e-mail esther@gameon-marketing.com

Gregor Knaflec
Public Relations, HERMES SoftLab
Litijska 51, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel: +386(0) 1 58 65 699, fax: +386(0) 1 58 65 270
e-mail: Gregor.Knaflec@hermes-softlab.com

About HERMES SoftLab, www.hermes-softlab.com
HERMES SoftLab, member of the ComTrade Group is an international provider of software engineering services, IT solutions serving storage, gaming industries, telecommunication service providers, financial institutions and the public sector. With our network of regional offices linking a total of 800 experts, customers can draw on a wide range of expertise sourced throughout the Adriatic, as well as in Western Europe and the United States. Today we are active in 8 countries. Supported by world-class competence centers, HERMES SoftLab delivers engineering, consulting and system integration services in the areas of storage and systems management, embedded software, as well as IT solutions relating to e-business, SOA/enterprise integration, IT modernization, and service management serving storage and gaming industries, telecommunication service providers, financial institutions and the public sector. HERMES SoftLab has 8 software development centers in 5 countries. Customers can use our software centers on a project basis, or employ our cross-border teams as virtual extensions to their own IT or R&D departments.

About HERMES SoftLab Gaming Competence Center, www.gaming.hermes-softlab.com
The Center is located in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Our core competency is the development of advanced software solutions and applications for various areas of the modern gaming world. Using the consulting expertise of the HERMES development experts' team and a strong gaming R&D department, we can provide the tailor-made solution for your customers and help you achieve the desired time to market while assuring quality of our products and services.