Grand Canyon University: Riot Games Business Profile Analysis

This report presents a business profile of Riot Games, Inc., examining various aspects of the company. It details the company's establishment, vision, mission, goals, and major stakeholders, including Brandon Beck, Marc Merrill, Nicolo Laurent, Dylan Jadeja, and Scott Gelb. The report outlines the company's products and services, with a focus on League of Legends, and describes the technology and security solutions implemented to protect its operations and players. It also lists the hardware and software used for developing and testing games. The report provides a comprehensive overview of Riot Games' organizational structure, industry experience, and consumer base, providing a detailed analysis of the company's business model and operations.

Business Profile
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Business Details
Company name Riot Games, Inc.
Established date August 31, 2006.
Physical address 12333 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, California,
US.
Phone and fax numbers Phone: [phone]/ Fax: [phone]
Website URL https://www.riotgames.com/en
Email address [e-mail]
Business Basics
Vision Mission Statement and Goals
A. Mission Statement Riot was established by entrepreneurial gamers who
believe that player focused game development can result in awesome games.
B. Vision Statement Accelerate the advent of sustainable transport
C. Goals and Objectives The main goal of this company is to deliver high quality
games by incorporating and hiring people from various diversities who love making games.
They want to set a high bar for diversity and inclusion.
D. Industry Information/Experience 12 years and more.
E. Major Stakeholders
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 Brandon Beck (co-chairman)
 Marc Merrill (co-chairman)
 Nicolo Laurent (CEO)
 Dylan Jadeja (CFO)
 Scott Gelb (COO)
F. Company Organizational Flow
Products and Services
A. Main Products Video game: League of Legends (MOBA)
B. Service Offerings Game support, maintenance and updates
C. Consumer Base Young and middle aged online gamers (More than 100
million users worldwide)
Technology and Security Solutions
The company implements many technological and security solutions. They continuously monitor
and analyze their games across Riot and all other players of the games. The company has a
security team consisting of a security operations manager whose job is to quickly find, analyze
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and respond to various cyber security threats from all across the globe. The company employs
engineers who has developed and is still developing tools such as automatic security processes to
make their games and network more secure. The company also works closely with local and
federal law enforcement agencies to protect its operations and players from cyber security
attacks like the DDoS.
The company also employs data scientists to work with engineers, artists and analysts to predict
game behavior and create unique experiences that the players love. The company makes use of
artificial intelligence and game data to improve game matchmaking and develop the game
further.
Hardware and software used for developing/testing
Software:
Visual studio, Audacity, 3D studio max, Maya, ZBrush, Mudbox, Creative studio, Oracle JDE,
DirectX API and OpenGL API.
Hardware (minimum):
Nvidia GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5
Intel core i7 7700K 4.2 GHz
16 GB RAM DDR4 2400MHz
SSD 1TB
Big monitor.
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