IBM serves up real-time data for Tennis Australia

It provides match stats across all courts, with live text commentary and a momentum visualiser for featured matches. SlamTracker applies IBM business analytics to examine 39 million data points across seven years of Grand Slam championships, finding patterns and styles for players when they win.

"Analytics is very important to us because we're in the business of high performance which means we need data to analyse players' games," he said. "We train a lot of juniors in Melbourne and other parts of Australia so we need to get insights from that data to help them improve their game."

"We've focused this year on Cloud computing because it is very important to Tennis Australia to have a scalable and resilient infrastructure," Mahir said.

IBM has as well added an Android application to its existing iPhone app for the 2012 Australian Open which offers live scores, highlights and news.

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