IT Management

Bounded Context

Data products, integration topics, and reporting dashboards that underpin the club's technology landscape.

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flowchart TB

subgraph IT Management
        DATA_PRODUCT[Data Product]
        INTEGRATION_TOPIC[Integration Topic]
        DASHBOARD_REPORT[Dashboard Report]
    end

    INTEGRATION_TOPIC --> |feeds| DATA_PRODUCT
    DATA_PRODUCT --> |visualized in| DASHBOARD_REPORT

    subgraph "Product Delivery &<br/>Material Management"
        TRANSACTION[Transaction]
    end

    subgraph "Staff, Player & Team<br/>Development"
        MATCH_PERFORMANCE[Match Performance]
    end

    INTEGRATION_TOPIC --> |carries| TRANSACTION
    DATA_PRODUCT --> |analyzes| MATCH_PERFORMANCE

Business Capabilities

Azure AI Foundry

• Train and deploy crowd density prediction models for stadium safety
• Run injury risk assessment models for player management
• Provide real-time inference endpoints for operational AI
• Enable fan churn prediction for marketing campaigns

Data Platform

• Ingest operational events from Integration Platform via ETL pipelines
• Transform and curate data into governed data products
• Provide self-service Power BI dashboards for KPI monitoring
• Enable trend analysis and market intelligence reporting
• Track application portfolio and IT project reporting

Databricks

• Provide unified data lakehouse for all operational and analytical data
• Enable self-service data exploration and notebook-based analysis
• Support ML model training and feature engineering
• Govern data access through Unity Catalog

Integration Platform

• Route events between systems using publish-subscribe topics
• Transform message formats between heterogeneous systems
• Monitor message queues, dead-letter queues, and throughput
• Provide guaranteed message delivery with retry policies

Microsoft Entra ID

• Provide single sign-on across all internal applications
• Enforce multi-factor authentication policies
• Manage user identities and group-based access control
• Enable B2C authentication for fan-facing applications