By focusing on verticals to enable Digital Transformation
Shenzhen, China, April 20, 2017
Huawei Enterprise Business Group (BG) announced its performance in 2016, as well as its vision and strategy for digital transformation across all verticals.
Yan Lida, President of Huawei Enterprise BG, commented: "Huawei Enterprise BG’s portfolio of products, solutions and services are well-positioned to propel the development of a digital and intelligent society, and be an enabler and the best partner of digital transformation for industries. In 2016, by harnessing opportunities to drive industry digital transformation through advanced ICT infrastructure, Huawei Enterprise BG achieved rapid growth in several industries, such as government, energy, finance, transportation, and manufacturing. Our sales revenue reached CNY40.7 billion (US$5.7 billion), with an increase of 47.3% year-on-year."
Through its “platform+ ecosystem” strategy, Huawei Enterprise BG aims to address the development requirements of new ICT and enable the digital transformation of other sectors and industries. The strategy targets building an open, resilient, secure, and flexible platform of ICT infrastructure by continuously investing in new technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, mobile broadband and artificial intelligence. Through its new strategy, Huawei believes can build a new ecosystem that features collaboration and mutual benefits, and work with partners to help customers achieve successful digital transformation.
In 2016, Huawei Enterprise BG has achieved rapid growth in vertical industries. Huawei's Smart City solution has been successfully deployed in more than 100 cities in over 40 countries. In the finance sector, Huawei helped many large commercial banks in China complete infrastructure cloudification and served more than 300 financial institutions across the globe, including six of the world's top 10 banks. In the energy industry, Huawei became the only ICT solutions provider among the members of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) and Huawei's Better-Connected Grid Solution has served over 170 electric power companies in 65 countries across the world. In transportation, Huawei cooperated with more than 60 industry partners to serve railways and highways with a total track length of 220,000+ km and more than 15 airports with annual throughput higher than 30 million passengers. Huawei had also worked with KUKA and ABB to promote industrial upgrading to achieve intelligent manufacturing
Huawei Enterprise BG has increasingly gained recognition from customers and partners, with 172 enterprises of Fortune 500 and 43 enterprises of Fortune 100 choosing Huawei as their partner for digital transformation. Huawei Enterprise BG had more than 12,000 global channel partners, over 2,000 service partners, and beyond 400 solution partners.
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About Huawei
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better-connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 180,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees. For more information, please visit Huawei online at www.huawei.com.
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