CRS Client Stories
Do you want a better understanding of the breadth of our work? Here are examples of how CRS has helped meet the ongoing needs of clients.
| Computers On Ice: The NHL Stanley Cup Championship
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Imagine trying to pull off a major international sports event like the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Final. Here are a few of the challenges: * It will take place in two cities, but you won't know which ones until 72-or possibly 48 hours-before the event. * The actual start dates won't be finalized, until the previous playoff rounds are completed, and ending dates are also unknown. * Hundreds of event participants will travel back and forth between those cities as many as four times within two weeks. For us, the Stanley Cup Final represents the single biggest logistical challenge of our year. 2008 was the fourth year that CRS handled computer arrangements for the NHL Stanley Cup Championships. To serve the international media, hockey players and their families, NHL staff and event managers, the NHL needed to set up two remote offices in Detroit, home of the Western Conference Champion Red Wings, and two more remote offices in Pittsburgh, where the Eastern Conference Champion Penguins play. (In each city, one remote office was located at the arena, and the second at the host hotel.) Each site included 15 computers and 10 laser printers, all networked together and set up to run most applications, as well as email and web browsing. The NHL staff used CRS computers to print badges, press credentials and other paperwork, throughout the two-week event. All of the people involved in the Stanley Cup Playoffs had access to internet, email, and the applications they needed to handle their work as seamlessly as possible. CRS took care of set-up, break down, and support during the event. CRS had to be flexible to handle the NHL's needs. As the semifinal rounds played out this past May, we prepared to deploy teams to four cities: Philadelphia, Dallas, Pittsburgh and Detroit. Having equipment and people poised to set up in all four cities was critical to serving this client because things happen so quickly.The final markets were determined by the on-ice results of the playoff games, and one year we only learned the night before whether we'd be in Tampa or Philadelphia. We also need to prepare to handle four possible end dates, because regardless of when the playoff series finishes, the CRS team has to work the next morning to disassemble the networks. We're getting good at working with the NHL and being flexible to meet their needs. In 2004, we were set up in Tampa Bay and Calgary, 2006 in Raleigh, North Carolina and Edmonton, and 2007 in Anaheim and Ottawa prior to working with them this season. |
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