IANS | 27 Nov, 2023
Tech Mahindra on Monday announced it has collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a sports cloud platform.
The
offering focuses on building next-generation digital capabilities for
sports organisations and delivering immersive and personalised
experiences to sporting enthusiasts worldwide.
"By building Sports
Cloud on AWS, we aim to build a personalised, fan-focused community
that transcends physical sports," Jagdish Mitra, Chief Strategy Officer
and Head of Growth, Tech Mahindra, said in a statement.
"The
platform is positioned to disrupt the sports tech industry by providing
opportunities for sports organisations and franchises worldwide to
create a delightful fan engagement experience that is built on content
and community, leading to commerce," he added.
Both companies will
collaborate to offer a comprehensive digital platform to sports
organisations, offering use cases related to content and community
engagement, customer data management and audience segmentation, and
sports analytics, while delivering immersive stadium-to-home fan
experiences by leveraging augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/
VR), and metaverse gamification.
"Our collaboration with Tech
Mahindra will enable leading sports organisations to take the fan
experience to the next level by creating immersive experiences and
providing data-driven insights," said Samira Bakhtiar, General Manager,
Media, Entertainment & Sports, AWS.
The platform will use AWS
native services, and specialist AWS services such as AWS Elemental
MediaLive for delivering 24/7 linear channels and live events at scale;
AWS Elemental MediaConvert for transcoding content for broadcast and
multi-screen delivery; Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for storing and
ingesting various streaming data in real-time at any scale, etc.
Tech
Mahindra will also leverage Amazon SageMaker -- a fully managed ML
service from AWS that enables developers and data scientists to build,
train, and deploy ML models for any use -- to power AR/VR video and
image analytics and enable fans to experience virtual stadium tours,
live events, shopping, and access footage from sporting events.