IBM Roland-Garros 2012

In conjunction with the French Tennis Federation, IBM has been designing, developing, producing and hosting the state-of-the-art rolandgarros.com website since 1996. IBM has enhanced Roland-Garros, one of tennis's most celebrated competitions, by providing an innovative and immersive online experience for millions of tennis fans worldwide.

See scores, statistics and match analysis come to life with IBM SlamTracker™ 2012. Aces, serve speed, winners and all other key stats are rendered in real time, giving viewers an immediate and accurate visual sense of a match in progress.

For the first time at Roland-Garros, fans will be able to see the specific Keys to the Match based on IBM's predictive analytics technology.
IBM has mined more than seven years of Grand Slam Tennis data (approximately 39 million data points) to determine patterns and styles for players when they win. This insight is applied to determine the "keys" to the match for each player in a match.

• Prior to each match, the system runs an analysis of both competitors' historical head-to-head match ups as well as stats against comparable player styles, to determine what the data indicates each player must do to do well in the match (SPSS technology)
• The system then selects the 3 most significant keys for each player in the match
• The Keys to the Match dashboard updates in real-time with current game statistics as the match unfolds

Fans will find their voice within SlamTracker, adding comments about featured matches through Facebook and Twitter.

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We continually strive to make our data centers greener and more efficient, and our experience helps Roland-Garros realize benefits such as:

• Increased flexibility and scalability of IT Infrastructure through dynamic provisioning of resources based on the tournament’s needs
• Lower intrusion risks and potential malicious attempts to gain access to the Official Website and provide for continuous availability (100% available for more than 10 years)
• Lower cost and complexity through consolidation and standardization: since 2008 the private cloud, shared by all four tennis grand slams, the Masters Golf tournament, the US Open golf tournament, the Tony Awards and ibm.com has driven great efficiency:
  • users have increased by 45% while the cost/user has been reduced by 35% during the same period
  • Visits have grown by 5% while the cost per/visit has been reduced by 11% during the same period. Page Views increased by 42% while the cost/page view decreased by 34%
  • Infrastructure cost have been reduced by 3% (Hardware, Software, Telecommunications and Labor)

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IBM’s involvement with Grand Slam Tennis doesn’t end with Roland-Garros. We work with all four tournaments around the globe to enhance the fan experience and provide a vital resource to media, commentators and players. Watch these short videos to see how IBM serves up the Slams worldwide.

Roland-Garros: a city within a city (00:02:24)

IBM helps the US Open run efficiently through better data management (00:02:00)

The city of Wimbledon (00:02:31)

Smarter data for a smarter Slam at the Australian Open (00:04:06)