T-Mobile, or T-Mobile International AG, is a German holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG’s mobile communications subsidiaries outside of Germany. Globally, T-Mobile International subsidiaries have a combined total of approximately 230 million subscribers. T-Mobile International is the world's fifteenth-largest mobile-phone service provider by subscribers and the fourth-largest multinational after the UK’s Vodafone, India’s Airtel, and Spain’s Telefónica. The company sells products that include wireless PDAs, cell phones, and tablets, as well as services, which include mobile communications and DSL.
T-Mobile needed to better support the sale of new phones by better integrating data that was siloed across different departments, including Finance, Billing, Loan and Lease Application, Security, and Audit. T-Mobile was also engaged in multiple enterprise initiatives such as Digital Transformation, Universe 2.0, Finance 2.0, and Uprising, which required new applications such as the Ericsson Billing system and SAP Loan and Lease. To meet its goals, T-mobile needed to be able to provide business and technical units with relevant, accessible, timely, and accurate data, so T-Mobile implemented the Denodo Platform.
The Power of Data Abstraction
With the Denodo Platform, the technical aspects of the T-Mobile data layer, such as storage structure, location, and storage technology, are transparent to the user. The Denodo Platform’s semantic layer enables T-Mobile to easily connect to different data sources and make them accessible to users from a common logical data access point.