ENEX TESTLABS
Enex Testlab emerges on global gaming market
Enex TestLab, which has its roots in the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT University), is reaching out into the global gaming industry with an eye on becoming a major player in compliance testing. Managing Director Matt Tett spoke to Casino International about the company…
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f you’re part of the technology side of the casino industry, you can’t escape compliance. It’s a vital cog in the gaming machine, and every well-run jurisdiction on the planet has it to some degree. The major players are well known – but now
there’s a new kid on the block in the shape of Enex TestLabs, and they’ve got a point to prove. Managing Director Matt Tett told us more.
Casino International: Matt, most of our readers
may not yet be aware of Enex TestLab. Tell us a little about the history of the company… Matt Tett: The Test LlaboratoryEnex was founded in
1989 as part of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology UniversityRMIT University , which is based in Melbournein, Australia. We were founded as an independent testing organisation for the ICT [information and communication technologies] sectors. We ran for 17 years within the Uuniversity, until 2005 when we commercially spun out of the Uuniversity, hence the Enex. We retained all the premises, staff and IP, all the clients, and went our own way. We are now a separate commercial company; but we were always run commercially, so we always always had to make money. The main remit of the TtestLlabs was – and still issomething that the modern Enex TestLab maintains – to take academic resources as well as student resources, and give them real-world, live industry live experience in testing.
Since we broke awayevolved from the university we
have broadened our scope somewhat, we now have eight separate business divisions all of which do some kind of independent testing. One of them is for gaming, wagering, lotteries and casinos. That was set up four years ago through demand from Australian and New Zealand regulators, to create more competition in the market. There’sThere are only a small number of accredited test facilities (ATFs) in these jurisdictionsthis market, and there’sthere are nine jurisdictions which make up Australia and New Zealand. That market is very highly regulated, so the
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last four years has been about us getting the right licenses for to operate in those jurisdictions to operate, and building our experience and capability, and our technical resources to performdo high quality, cost effectivethe compliance testing for the vendors in a timely manner on behalf of regulators. Part of the company expanded globally five years
ago, and in the UK we have a laboratory in Wales, and an office in London. Three years ago we set up an office in Shanghai and we’re in the process of setting up an office in Hong Kong. Macau is key for us, being so close to Hong Kong. We also hold ATF accreditation there. Today we work in many different areas of testing –
electric buses in China, crayons in Germany, all kinds of things. We work across 92 different industry sectors, from automotive and lifestyle products through to industrial automation and gaming wagering. The scope of the company is very large.
CI: Who is the competition on your level of
compliance testing? MT: There’sThere are a lot of smaller labs, niche
vertical labs, but we see our main competitor as being GLI on a worldwide basis. In the UK, the Gambling Commission’s list of approved labs has about 11 labs on it; if you look at the Australia and New Zealand list, there’s more like three serious players including Enex TestLab covering all the jurisdictions. Because our home territories have been so highly regulated for the last 14 years, it’s not an easy task to get a license in our jurisdictions. In the UK or Macau, for example, it’s not that as difficult to get a license.
CI: Any plans to branch into online gaming compliance? MT: Our gaming division sees online gaming as
more of a low-hanging fruit. We know it’s there, it’s something we can move into very rapidly, and we have vast experience in online systems and systems testing;
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