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• Tennis Australia appoints first CTO

  Tennis Australia has appointed its first-ever CTO, naming Bunnings product and tech division head, Ben Fitzgerald, to the newly created role.

• ​Tennis Australia appoints new CIO

  Tennis Australia has promoted its infrastructure manager, Primoz Trcek, to the CIO role. Trcek replaces Samir Mahir, who left the organisation mid-year after leading several analytics and digital projects.

• The data and digitally driven CIO

  Samir Mahir reflects on his career following his departure as CIO of Tennis Australia, an organisation that is hungry for technology innovation.
  

• Samir Mahir leaves Tennis Australia

  Tennis Australia’s Samir Mahir has left the organisation as CIO after leading a number of analytics and digital projects.

• Data analytics drives Australian Open innovations for 2015

  Data analytics is driving a raft of operational improvements and new digital products and services at the 2015 Australian Open.

• Serving up faster websites

  Managing the needs of high-profile tennis stars such as Lleyton Hewitt, along with members of the public who expect websites to load within seconds, led Tennis Australia to implement online application performance and monitoring in time for the Australian Open in January 2014.
  

• IBM apps use real-time data to serve up fan engagement at Australian Open

  Tennis fans are being served up mobile apps at this year's Australian Open, including a new free iPad app which enables them to follow and tweet messages of support to their favourite players.

• Interview: Samir Mahir, CIO, Tennis Australia

  Tennis Australia's CIO Samir Mahir says CIOs need to lead transformation activities within their organisations. Mahir has achieved this by using technology systems to help the organisation achieve its business and strategic goals at its world-renowned tournament, the Australian Open.
  

• IBM taps social media at Australian Open

  IBM and Tennis Australia, partnering for the 20th year at the Australian Open, are analysing social media not only to measure players’ popularity but also to ensure there is adequate capacity to handle spikes in user activity.

• CIO movers and shakers: Slideshow

  A look at recent movements among Australian CIOs

• Behind the scenes at the Australian Open

  Blog posts from Tennis Australia CIO, Chris Yates, about the work that goes on for Australia's Grand Slam event.

• Tennis Australia CIO talks about the changing role of the CIO

  Moving Tennis Australia from blaming the IT department to working in harmony has been a key task for CIO, [[xref: http://www.cio.com.au/tag/Chris%20Yates|Chris Yates|CIO :: Chris Yates]]

• After the Open, Tennis Australia CIO shoots for winning IT

  Being appointed an organization's first CIO is a challenge at the best of times, but when you have an international Grand Slam tennis tournament to prepare for in two months things are just that much more hectic. That's what it was like for Tennis Australia's first CIO Chris Yates who, reporting directly to the CEO, began the job in a baptism of fire by managing IT during the Australian Open.