Huawei Deepens Partnership with SAP in APJ Region

[Singapore, June 6th,
2017] Huawei
unveiled a joint engagement partnership with SAP, following a declaration of
excellence ceremony at the Huawei eco-Connect Singapore show, in conjunction
with CommunicAsia2017 held at the Marina Bay Sands. The partnership will allow
both parties to explore new opportunities in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region
in the areas of Big Data and analytics, Smart City, Safe City, Internet of
Things (IoT) and cloud. Huawei aims to expand its existing collaboration with
SAP on the SAP HANA® platform running on Huawei’s cloud virtualization platform
FusionSphere 5.1, in a bid to support customers’ success.

The partner ecosystem
is a critical factor in Huawei’s strategy and solutions for vertical industries,
particularly the public sector, telecommunications, utilities, transportation,
manufacturing, education and healthcare, bringing high-speed computing to
address business needs for real-time data processing and analysis in the new
era of the cloud and Big Data.

“Huawei’s business
positioning is focused on being the best partner to enable a digital society,
to create an open, flexible, secure and agile information and
communications technology (ICT) infrastructure platform, in alignment with
SAP’s strategy and solutions. By building a win-win ecosystem and collaborating
extensively with SAP, we plan to further explore opportunities together in
various areas and help customers in various industries achieve success in
digital transformation,” said Lim Chee Siong, Chief Strategy and
Marketing Officer of Huawei Southern Pacific Region.

Huawei and SAP have a
long-standing partnership working together on the SAP HANA platform, cloud, Big
Data and IoT solutions, now in place at more than 500 clients globally. A
co-innovation centre was established in 2015. Both companies continuously
invest in ICT innovations and create more technical synergies, leading to
enterprise solutions designed to bring value to an increasing number of
industries and markets.

“SAP has seen an increasing
amount of interest from customers moving towards a digital core to power their
digital transformation journey,” said Rohit Nagarajan, vice president
for Digital Enterprise Platform Group at SAP Asia-Pacific and Japan. “We
see Huawei playing a vital collaborative role towards the adoption of our
solutions.”

The Huawei eco-Connect
Singapore is an inaugural gathering of key industry players to learn, share
insights and experiences, forming alliances, as well as matching business
opportunities for the development and sustainability of this ICT ecosystem. At
the Huawei eco-Connect, Huawei showcased a number of industry-specific
solutions including an IoT connectivity product for advanced metering
infrastructure of smart grid, smart manufacturing and private cloud services
for the telecom industry. These solutions address the challenges in industries’
digital transformation, helping enhance business agility and the customer
experience with innovative technologies from Huawei, SAP and their respective ecosystem
partners.