Case Study: FantasyData achieves faster, more accessible real-time sports data delivery with Microsoft Azure API Management

Game-Changing Cloud Development in Fantasy Sports

FantasyData, a provider of real-time sports data, sought to disrupt the fantasy sports industry by making comprehensive and real-time sports content more affordable and accessible to developers and startups, a market previously dominated by large, costly incumbent vendors. Their challenge was to build a flexible, open, and scalable API platform that could support cross-platform app development and work with any data source. To achieve this, they partnered with Microsoft and implemented a solution using Microsoft Azure API Management.

By building its developer portal and APIs on Microsoft Azure API Management, FantasyData created an open platform that simplifies integration for developers, offering clear documentation, a test environment, and support for various programming languages. This Microsoft-powered solution enabled FantasyData to onboard approximately 100 customers quickly, charge considerably less than larger competitors while remaining profitable, and empower a new wave of innovation in the fantasy sports ecosystem, including tools for daily fantasy sports and lineup optimization.

FantasyData

Dustin Sullivan

VP of Sales