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Huawei's New Initiative to Boost AI

During the HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 event, Leo Chen, Huawei's Senior Vice President and President of Enterprise Sales, unveiled a significant new system called the "Huawei + Partners" collaboration platform designed to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) implementation across numerous industries. Chen emphasized the importance of providing partners with the essential tools to evolve from pilot projects to extensive, large-scale deployments of AI solutions.

The Importance of Collaboration

As the industry enters a new era of intelligence, the need for efficient collaboration has never been more critical. Chen stated, “The AI era is swiftly approaching. Huawei is working with partners to deliver products and solutions that address real business challenges. We aspire to share our capabilities with partners, allowing them to leverage their unique strengths to aid clients in transitioning from computational design to the utilization of intelligent technologies.” The company is dedicated to supporting this client-centered collaborative system, enabling partners to resolve client issues more effectively while also facilitating a massive AI rollout to end users.

Addressing Key Challenges for Partners

To streamline the scaling of AI initiatives, partners often confront five fundamental challenges: solution development, integration validation, solution delivery, operation and maintenance, and systemic collaboration. The SCALE partner support system Huawei introduced offers five types of assistance tailored to meet these challenges:
1. Scenario-Based Solutions: Providing open and easily integrable core AI products to enable quick development of new solutions.
2. Co-Innovation: Assisting partners in replicating test experiences to efficiently validate solutions through shared reference architectures and testing environments.
3. Aligned Marketing: Supporting partners in identifying client needs, launching solutions, and making superior products more visible.
4. Local Services: Ensuring a high standard of localized partner services to mirror Huawei’s own level of service quality.
5. Consistent Quality and Efficient Collaboration: Offering platforms like HUAWEI eFly and HUAWEI ePartner that simplify processes and promote collaboration.

Scenario-Based Solutions: A Gateway to AI

Huawei’s scenario-based solutions focus on delivering foundational AI products that are simple to integrate. These products encompass computing, storage, networks, and security, including new solutions like SMECE and DCS AI Solution aimed at enabling partners to transform industry expertise into practical intelligent solutions rapidly. By leveraging these products, Huawei partners have already created over 100 scenario-based solutions across eight industries, significantly speeding up AI adoption.

Enhancing Integration and Test Processes

In a bid to enhance integration processes, Huawei has made its reference architectures and testing environments available to partners. This initiative includes access to reference architectures for 48 advanced technology scenarios, thereby enabling partners to develop, customize, and debug applications more efficiently.

Cooperative Market Efforts

The company is also focused on aligning marketing efforts to help partners determine customer needs, effectively launch new solutions, and improve product visibility. This includes the collaborative development of over 130 customer showcase initiatives around the world, whereby Huawei and partners simultaneously demonstrate their solutions in exhibitions and demonstrations, further clarifying the value of their offerings.

Quality and Service Excellence

Recognizing the importance of service quality, Huawei has broadened its partner support services, ensuring partners can provide services that match Huawei's high standards. This is facilitated through the Huawei O3 Partner Service Enablement Platform, which grants access to knowledge bases, tools, and industry expertise. In the past three years, Huawei has trained over 50,000 AI specialists through various talent development and certification programs.

Conclusion: Towards a Brighter Future with AI

Chen concluded with a hopeful vision of the future, stating, “In the age of genuine intelligence, scaling proven practices across various sectors will enable more companies to thrive. Industrial intelligence unlocks unprecedented opportunities, and Huawei is eager to collaborate with clients and partners to deploy successful benchmarks extensively, thereby extending AI benefits across more industries, organizations, and individuals.”

With initiatives like Huawei + Partners, we are clearly witnessing a unified approach towards revolutionizing how AI can be seamlessly integrated into industry practices, fostering an ecosystem of innovation and efficiency.