How Pacers Sports & Entertainment Uses Agentforce to Unify Fan Data

Pacers Sports & Entertainment manages some of the most exciting properties in American sports and entertainment — including the Indiana Pacers NBA team, the Indiana Fever WNBA team, and Gainbridge Fieldhouse arena. The 2024 Fever season proved to be a watershed moment: record-breaking attendance, explosive merchandise sales, and a surge of new fans arriving from across the U.S. and more than 40 countries. But with that growth came a data challenge that threatened to undermine the organization's ability to capitalize on its momentum.

PS&E's fan data was scattered across more than 30 disconnected systems — ticketing platforms like Ticketmaster, point-of-sale tools like Square and Shopify, food and beverage systems, retail platforms, survey tools like Qualtrics, and chatbot providers. Without a unified view, the same fan attending a Fever game in June and a concert at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in September could appear as two entirely different people. This fragmentation made personalized outreach nearly impossible and created operational delays — including a lag of up to 15 days before the team could follow up on a negative post-game survey response.

To solve this, PS&E partnered with Salesforce and built a modern data infrastructure anchored by Data 360. Databricks serves as the aggregation layer, consolidating related data streams — such as merchandise purchases from Shopify and retailcloud, or food and beverage transactions from Appetize, Amazon Just Walk Out, and VenueNext — before feeding them into Data 360. The result is a single, unified fan profile, or "golden record," that captures every transactional, behavioral, and qualitative interaction across all PS&E brands. Marketing Cloud then activates these profiles through personalized email journeys, automated outreach, and mass communications like gameday offers and season ticket campaigns, with Sales Cloud dashboards tracking conversions and closing the loop between marketing and sales.

Looking ahead, PS&E is preparing to deploy Agentforce as the intelligent action layer on top of this unified data foundation. Agentforce will enable the organization to move from insight to real-time impact — automatically triggering personalized marketing actions based on each fan's unified profile. The goal is to build what PS&E describes as "the most valuable database in all of sports," enabling cross-brand loyalty programs and deeply personalized fan experiences at scale.

The transformation represents a fundamental shift in how PS&E operates — from reactive, siloed data management to a proactive, AI-powered engagement engine. With a rapidly expanding global fanbase and the infrastructure to understand and serve each fan as a unique individual, PS&E is positioning itself to lead the next era of sports and entertainment personalization.