Energy and chemical giant Sinopec, which has the world’s largest data warehouse, has tapped Huawei (News - Alert) for the hardware and SAP for the data warehouse technology to power its financial reporting system.
The combined solution, which leverages Huawei FusionCube and SAP HANA technology, has accelerated data processing (by four to six times), improved user satisfaction, and significantly reduced the system response time (database loading is improved 60 percent and data upload time that had been four hours is now 30 minutes), according to Sinopec’s Li Jianfeng, deputy director of information management.
Huawei, which is SAP’s first global technology partner in China, introduced FusionCube for SAP HANA last year at the CeBIT (News - Alert) event in Germany.
The Chinese IT and telecom equipment vendor, which reported $46.3 billion in revenue last year, continues to make strides in a number of areas both in China, in the U.S., and elsewhere. Huawei is now the world’s No. 2 network equipment maker, according to Dell’ (News - Alert)Oro Group, which says it’s second only to Ericsson. A few years back Huawei made headlines when it surpassed the revenues of Ericsson. And Huawei “stands out as a leader” and is “steadily gaining market share in major telecom infrastructure segments and staking out a strong position in software-defined networks and network functions virtualization,” according to a March report by Infonetics (News - Alert) Research.
Last year Huawei was among the top three vendors in terms of global LTE network infrastructure market share, according to Dell’Oro, which has lauded the vendor for its pioneering efforts in small cell products. Huawei is also the market leader in optical networking and containerized data centers, according to Infonetics Research and its parent company, IHS. A Gartner (News - Alert) report released in December ranked Huawei the No. 3 provider of smartphones worldwide. And Huawei last year overtook Panasonic to become the top applicant for international patents with the World International Property Organisation.