Case Study: Louisiana Lottery Corporation achieves reliable, automated real-time file transfers and streamlined reporting with Fortra Automate

Automate Streamlines Lottery Operations and Reporting in Louisiana

Louisiana Lottery Corporation, created in 1991 to fund state programs without raising taxes, manages lottery operations, accounting, auditing, and retailer support for games like Powerball and Scratch-Offs. The IT team struggled to extract, import, and report high-frequency data from GTECH’s mainframe systems, produce more than 300 daily reports, and reconcile ticket sales with bank deposits securely and on demand—tasks that were time-consuming, error-prone, and critical to maintaining public trust.

The corporation implemented Automate to schedule frequent, secure file transfers (including PGP/SFTP) from GTECH to internal systems, route data to the right departments, trigger database processes, generate and email PDF and Excel reports, and handle end-of-day bank reconciliation. The result: faster, more reliable operations with major time savings, elimination of scheduler-related hangs, improved visibility into processes, and more timely, accurate reporting and reconciliation.

Louisiana Lottery Corporation

Richard Harris

IT Director