Tom.com

Core Business:

TOM Group Ltd. is the leading Chinese language media group in the greater China region with business interests across markets in the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Their diverse operations cover five media sectors: Internet, outdoor, publishing, sports, TV & entertainment. In each sector TOM is a market leader.

Customer Problem:

• Lack of ad-hoc data consolidation from different business units.
• Difficulties maintaining metadata and manual ETL processes.
• Gaps in understanding business data definitions within the company.
• Serious errors when handling different ETL programs/methods, leading to compromised data quality.
• No version control over ETL flows and metadata.

Customer Benefits:

• Provided easy-to-maintain ETL tasks in an integrated environment.
• Initiated a common metadata repository with superb version control.
• Improved communication with the use of a web interface for end users so they could understand business data definitions.
• Created a system of proactive data quality management.

IIS Solutions:

• Implemented a truly cost-effective data management solution.
• Solved customer problems with different ETL handling and metadata.