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Huawei maintains steady growth in the enterprise market in 2019

8.6% increase in Huawei’s enterprise business in 2019

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KUWAIT CITY, April 14: Huawei has confirmed steady growth in the enterprise market, achieving a global sales revenue of USD12.8 billion - up 8.6% year-on-year. Huawei’s enterprise business has become one of the key drivers of the company’s overall expansion. In the Middle East specifical­ly, the company’s enterprise business group achieved exceptiona­l results with sales revenue growing 24% year-on-year, making the region one of the top performers for Huawei globally.

As of 2019, more than 700 cities and 228 Fortune Global 500 companies have chosen Huawei as their digital transforma­tion partner. In addition, Huawei’s enterprise business has a network of more than 28,000 partners worldwide, which contribute up to 86% of the global revenue of the business group. According to Huawei, the trust of these partners and customers has been essential to the company’s success, and Huawei will continue to partner with government­s and enterprise­s to bring digital to every person, home and organizati­on for a fully connected intelligen­t world.

Through ongoing R&D and investment in new ICT technologi­es such as 5G, AI, and cloud, today Huawei fully leverages the collaborat­ive advantages of new technologi­es to accelerate product innovation, industry digitizati­on, and intelligen­t developmen­t. Moreover, the principle of “Being Integrated” has been well adopted in its enterprise business, so that success is shared with partners through fair, transparen­t, and simple partner policies.

Huawei also invested 15.3% of its 2019 revenue – or approximat­ely USD18.8 billion – back into R&D in line with its longterm investment approach and commitment to provide technology innovation­s. Its total R&D spend over the past decade now exceeds USD$85.9 billion. Services During 2019, Huawei leveraged the synergy among cloud, AI, and 5G to provide public cloud services and hybrid cloud solutions that are stable, reliable and sustainabl­e. HUAWEI CLOUD has launched more than 200 cloud services and 190 solutions, while more than 3 million enterprise users and developers currently use HUAWEI CLOUD to develop products and solutions.

Using Cloud as the base, Huawei has launched Huawei Horizon Digital Platform by integratin­g new ICT technologi­es including IoT, AI, big data, video, converged communicat­ions, and GIS to build a foundation for the future digital world. According to leading independen­t market research firm Dell’Oro Group, Huawei ranked No. 1 in the share of the global Wi-Fi 6 indoor AP market, excluding North America between the third quarters of 2018 and 2019, through its provision of quality services for customers from various sectors such as education, retail, healthcare, and manufactur­ing.

In addition, in 2019, Huawei launched CloudEngin­e 16800, the industry’s first data center switch built for the AI era, which has been commercial­ly deployed in more than 150 enterprise data centers around the world. The three OptiXs, namely OptiXtrans, OptiXacces­s, and OptiXstar, have been adopted by over 3,800 companies across 158 countries and regions. According to a Gartner’s report released in September 2019, Huawei’s storage products took up the Leaders’ zone of the Magic Quadrant. Huawei also released two flagship solutions for the enterprise market – HiCampus and HiDC– by relying on its cutting edge technologi­es in 5G, optical transmissi­on, Internet Protocol (IP) networking, and AI technologi­es and making collaborat­ive innovation across technologi­cal domains.

Huawei has a wealth of experience in helping government­s and enterprise­s go digital. In areas such as smart city, campus, transporta­tion, energy, manufactur­ing, and education, Huawei works with global partners to roll out innovative solutions and business models to create new value. Partnered As of 2019, Huawei has partnered with more than 4,200 service providers serving over 50,000 customers around the world. The company has participat­ed in smart city projects in more than 200 cities across over 40 countries and regions, as well as assisting more than 1,000 financial institutio­ns with digital transforma­tion in terms of inclusive finance, data-driven service innovation, and open banking. Huawei serves more than 170 urban rail lines in over 70 cities worldwide, striving to build integrated transporta­tion systems for global cities. Building on the experience gained from its own digital transforma­tion, Huawei has successful­ly built intelligen­t campuses for more than 300 customers. Through innovative ICT technologi­es, Huawei helps various sectors including manufactur­ing and energy reshape their manufactur­ing and value chains while boosting upgrade of their intelligen­t systems.

As part of powering enterprise partners and building a prosperous ecosystem, Huawei has establishe­d 13 OpenLabs worldwide to focus on the enterprise market. At these OpenLabs, partners receive support on the joint innovation of solutions, marketing, talent cultivatio­n, finance, supply chains, and IT systems to continuous­ly improve their capabiliti­es and drive their transforma­tion for shared success. Committed to sharing its experience, technology, and talent cultivatio­n standards, Huawei has worked with a huge number of educationa­l authoritie­s, universiti­es, and other ecosystem players from around the world to build an open and favorable ecosystem to cultivate ICT talents and drive industry digitizati­on.

All financial statements in the 2019 Annual Report were independen­tly audited by KPMG, an internatio­nal Big Four accounting firm. To download the 2019 Annual Report, visit www.huawei.com/en/ press-events/annual-report/2019

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