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With T-Mobile announcing a software update for the Galaxy S II that includes “ISIS” details, the internet is abuzz with what exactly T-Mobile was updating. Thankfully, Bloomberg seems to have the answer with a report that ISIS’ CEO says to expect a September launch in two test markets. In fact, the two test markets, Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah are the very same markets we discovered as T-Mobile’s own test markets back at the end of July.
In T-Mobile’s case, they plan on allowing customers to download applications and content and utilizing Near Field Communication (NFC) in more ways than one:
The mobile payments concept is compelling, and T-Mobile is participating in the Isis joint venture to make that a reality. But NFC can simplify much more than purchases. Let’s take a look at three exciting opportunities for NFC — beyond mobile payments.
•Your wallet. With Isis, you won’t have to carry around a physical credit card, but there’s a lot more in your wallet that can possibly move onto your phone with the introduction and adoption of secure NFC services — things such as reward cards, membership cards and even your personal ID. It also can become a compelling way for merchants to share offers and discounts.
•Your key for access and content. With NFC, your phone has the potential to replace your keys and your tickets, and NFC tags can let you access and download rich content.
•Your command center. NFC has the potential to automate common tasks and commands. For example, imagine getting into your car at the end of the day, and, with a simple tap, your phone knows to bring up a traffic map and send a quick text message to your family members letting them know you’re on your way
When it comes to devices, Mastercard has already given their blessing to T-Mobile on three devices, the HTC Amaze 4G, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy S II. We expect more approval down the road, especially given that the Blackberry 9900 and Galaxy S Blaze 4G each include NFC capability.
With three national carriers behind ISIS, we have high hopes that it will succeed where Google Wallet is currently struggling to keep its head above water. NFC may very well be a major part of our mobile future, and it’s now up to Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile to try and prove that.
Kinda late to the party, aren't we?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859022&highlight=isis
Also, it might be nice if you included the link that you copied and pasted this news from.... I know you forgot - here it is.
http://www.tmonews.com/2012/08/isis...in-september-three-t-mobile-devices-included/
By Li Xianhui, Global Financial Services Business Unit, Huawei Enterprise BG
By applying mobile, data, open architecture, and security technologies, Huawei has developed integrated financial solutions (including mobile wallets, mobile payment, and micro and small business financing platforms) to fuel the growth of inclusive financial services and boost the digitization of banks.
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As digital technologies, the Internet, and mobile communications become more integrated with the financial services industry, financial transaction modes and service models are evolving. Digital, mobile, and intelligent financial inclusion have become significant trends.
At the 2016 G20 Hangzhou Summit, the concept of Digital Financial Inclusion (DFI) was first proposed. According to the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), DFI refers broadly to the use of digital financial services to advance financial inclusion. The process involves the deployment of digital technologies to reach financially excluded and under-served populations, with a range of formal financial services explicitly suited to their needs and delivered responsibly, at a cost that’s affordable to customers as well as sustainable for providers.
Aligned with its vision for a fully connected, intelligent world, where digital services are available to everyone, Huawei aims to use connectivity technology to make inclusive financial services affordable and sustainable. Through various digital means, Huawei strives to provide equal, effective, comprehensive, and convenient financial products and services for all social groups, especially disadvantaged and low income households, as well as micro and small enterprises.
【About Financial Inclusion】
The idea of Financial Inclusion was first proposed by the United Nations in 2005 — the International Year of Microcredit — and it means, in effect, a financial system that can effectively, comprehensively, and conveniently serve all segments and groups of society.
Three Features of DFI
DFI differs from traditional financial inclusion in three main ways:
Wider coverage: DFI relies on digital technologies such as the Internet and mobile communications to deliver reachable services within signal coverage, under the premise of wide coverage of basic communications facilities.
More accessible financial services: Big data technology enables banks and their regulators to better understand customers, manage risks, and lower the threshold for financial services. Micro and small enterprises, as well as low income households, have access to financial services such as credit and investment/financing, whereas previously they had difficulty reaching traditional financial services.
More closely related to people’s lives: Digital inclusive financial services are more scenario-specific. Digital technologies, especially mobile technologies, can be used to integrate financial services into work and general life, improving efficiency and boosting the economy. Financial enterprises can also build one-stop service platforms by providing digital financial services for users.
Mobile Communications: Deliver Inclusive Financial Services within Signal Coverage
In low- and middle-income economies in Africa, the vast majority of economically disadvantaged people are often marginalized from modern financial life and become ‘invisible’ in the financial service system. They are unable to access savings, insurance, and credit services at an affordable cost. When formal financial services aren’t available, they turn to informal financial instruments, such as loans from local non-financial institutions and facilities from rural mutual aid associations. As a result, they have to pay high service and transaction fees, increasing the costs and risks of financial services.
In recent years, the popularization of mobile communications has provided necessary conditions for the rapid development of the digital economy, significantly boosting financial inclusion. Between 2005 and 2017, the number of mobile users in Africa increased from 87 million to 760 million, with an annual growth rate of 20 percent making it the fastest-growing market in the world. The mobile network coverage rate in African countries now ranges from 10 percent to 99 percent, with an average rate of 70 percent. Through mobile financial platforms such as mobile banking and mobile wallet, transactions are carried out at marginal cost. In other words, it is much easier to provide affordable financial services to the economically disadvantaged. In this context, enterprises will be more motivated to provide formal financial services to meet the needs of low-income groups.
In 2007, Safaricom, a telco with a market monopoly in Kenya, launched M-PESA, a mobile wallet for feature phones that enabled people to transfer money. In 2012, Safaricom started cooperating with Huawei to develop M-PESA’s capabilities using new mobile technologies.
M-PESA has grown quickly and become a leading mobile wallet service provider in Africa. The service covers seven countries — Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Tanzania — with 37 million active users and more than 400,000 service agents. These offline agents are often small retailers, post offices, and gas stations scattered in towns and villages, through which people can top up, transfer, pay, and even withdraw money, just like Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs).
With M-PESA continuing to grow, Safaricom also cooperates with 25 banks, including NCBA Bank Kenya and KCB Bank Kenya, to provide micro and small deposits and loans through the M-PESA mobile wallet. M-PESA cooperates with these banks on services such as Fuliza, which allows M-PESA customers to complete their M-PESA transactions when they have insufficient funds in their M-PESA account, and m-Sharia, a Sharia-compliant banking service.
Banks are important players in the financial inclusion field. For example, Equity Bank, which has nearly 200 branches and more than 30,000 agents in Kenya, is well-known for its agency banking mode. It is one of the leading enterprises providing financial services to Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya.
Overseen by the central bank, third parties (such as shops) authorized by commercial banks can provide financial products to the public and become part of the retail network of commercial banks. These agents provide basic financial services through cellphones for people in remote rural areas where banks don’t have branches.
Digital Technologies: Improve Financial Supervision Efficiency and Support Financial Inclusion
Integration of finance, the Internet, and technology has generated many new services, such as mobile payments, online finance, electronic bills, and virtual currencies. As well as being inclusive, financial services are becoming more virtualized and around-the-clock across industries and markets. However, this also has negative consequences: risks spread quickly and are difficult to identify. Traditional financial supervision approaches fail to effectively monitor, identify, control, and cope with these risks, creating a need for supervisory technology. Supervisory agencies use innovative technology to monitor, identify, and cope with risks, maintaining a balance between financial innovation and financial security. Meanwhile, as financial transactions become more frequent, a massive amount of data is generated every day, exceeding the capacity that manual analysis and processing can handle. In these circumstances, supervisory technology is also helpful in improving financial data analysis and processing capacity, reducing costs. In the context of strengthening financial supervision, new, more intricate financial supervision policies are rolled out frequently, and risk prevention and control responsibilities have shifted from regulators to financial institutions. Financial institutions and supervisory agencies need supervisory technology to improve their policy execution, prediction, and supervision capabilities. Meanwhile, the digital capabilities of financial regulators are improved in three ways.
Automatic extraction of data: For example, the central bank of Austria — OeNB — uses the Austrian Reporting Services (AuRep) system as an intermediate platform. After automatically obtaining fragmented raw data of commercial banks, the AuRep system converts the data based on standard rules, and pushes the converted data to the central bank. This greatly reduces the data reporting and compliance burden of the monitored objects and ensures the consistency and quality of data used by all departments of the central bank. The National Bank of Rwanda uses an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to periodically and automatically extract data from the IT systems of more than 600 regulated institutions, including commercial banks, insurance companies, microfinance institutions, and telcos.
Strengthened data verification and processing: To take an example, the Bank of Italy uses suspicious transaction reports (structured data) and news commentaries (unstructured data) to detect money laundering. Data visualization technology can also be used to transfer processed information to regulators in a way that’s visualized and easy-to-understand. Another example of this improved data processing can be seen at Dutch bank ABN AMRO, which converts data into logical forms such as traffic signal lights and dashboards. The Monetary Authority of Singapore also uses interactive dashboards and network diagrams to visualize data.
Cloud computing technology applied to data processing: To reduce data processing pressure and costs and increase the storage capacity of regulators, the Financial Conduct Authority of the UK, the National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico, ABN AMRO, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission have all used cloud computing to process massive amounts of data.
To meet the data-processing capacity requirements of financial regulators, Huawei provides a converged data platform solution, which integrates structured and unstructured data management, Distributed Databases (DDBs), and converged data storage devices. It also integrates data virtualization and data enablement platforms, and provides end-to-end solutions covering front-end data access, storage, processing, analysis, and governance for customers in the Financial Services Industry (FSI). Using Huawei’s full-stack hardware, this solution helps industry customers optimize performance, from chips to platforms, helping customers build data analysis and processing platforms with improved performance.
Financial Infrastructures: A Solid Foundation for Financial Inclusion
Credit and payment infrastructure is an element of every country’s financial infrastructure, and is critical to solving the problems that hinder inclusive financial development, such as information asymmetry and high transaction costs. The progress made by countries in promoting financial inclusion is largely reliant on the construction of financial infrastructure.
• Enhance Payment Infrastructure Construction
In many countries, central banks have led efforts to work with other stakeholders to establish reliable nationwide payment system infrastructure. Meanwhile, countries are focusing on the construction and maintenance of payment and settlement infrastructure in remote areas to ensure its stable operation. The construction and improvement of such infrastructure promotes the expansion of the physical networks of financial institutions, improves the diversity and efficiency of payment products, and boosts the digitalization of Government-to-Person (G2P) payments.
• Promoting the Digitization of G2P Payments
In recent years, several countries have implemented policies to benefit farmers, such as subsidies for agricultural workers, new rural pension subsidies, and new rural cooperative medical subsidies. Generally, these subsidies are widely distributed in small amounts. If they are distributed in cash, there are many procedures and the distribution costs are high. To resolve these problems, the Thai government, for example, directly grants subsidies to individuals through the mobile wallet platform of Krung Thai Bank (KTB), binding personal debit cards or Know Your Customer (KYC) information, leading to more people owning and using personal bank accounts. Residents receive subsidies using their bank cards, without needing to leave their villages. By using the bank’s KYC information, the government can ensure that the subsidy recipients are correctly identified and traceable, preventing impersonation and misappropriation of subsidies.
Evolution from mobile wallets to digital payments has become a popular way for governments to develop a cashless strategy. This evolution may further improve the experience of inclusive financial services and effectively explore the value of long-tail customers. For example, in Myanmar, Huawei’s mobile payment solution has helped KBZ Bank take a leading position in the mobile payment market within a single year. This solution uses Huawei’s core technologies and integrates the innovative spirit of FinTech companies.
• Promoting the Construction of the Digital Credit Investigation System
In recent years, the People’s Bank of China has promoted the construction of a credit investigation system to reduce information asymmetry between borrowers and lenders and provide responsible loans to enterprises and families. The Credit Reference Center of the People’s Bank of China collects data from more than 3,000 financial service providers, including banks, rural credit cooperatives, micro finance companies , insurance companies, and other non-bank financial institutions. It provides information based on the query requests of these organizations. By June 2019, the People’s Bank of China’s credit reporting system had collected information about 990 million people and 25.91 million enterprises and organizations. Average daily queries of individual and enterprise credit reports stood at 5.5 million and 300,000, respectively. The enterprise credit reporting system of the People’s Bank of China covers 13.7 million micro and small enterprises, accounting for 53 percent of all registered enterprises. Among them, 3.71 million micro and small enterprises have received credit support, with a loan balance of CNY33 trillion (approximately US$4.7 trillion).
The People’s Bank of China has also recognized the role that the private sector, particularly emerging financial technology companies, can play in improving China’s credit infrastructure. On February 22, 2018, it released a bulletin on its official website, stating that the personal credit investigation service of Baihang Credit had been approved. The shareholders of Baihang Credit include the National Internet Finance Association of China, which holds 36 percent of total shares, and eight Internet companies: Tencent Credit Information Co., Ltd.; Sesame Credit Management Co., Ltd.; Shenzhen Qianhai Credit Center Co., Ltd.; Pengyuan Credit Service Co., Ltd.; China Chengxin Credit Information Co., Ltd.; Zhongzhicheng Credit Information Co., Ltd.; Lakala Credit Management Co., Ltd.; and Beijing Huadao Credit Reporting Co., Ltd.
Meanwhile, access to more public information through the credit reporting system will facilitate financial inclusion. Government departments such as tax, business, and judicial sectors have a large amount of valuable data related to individuals and micro and small enterprises, but the information is often difficult to obtain. To address data-related issues, China needs to establish a complete legal framework for data and privacy protection, including the use of public information and alternative data.
To meet the requirements of financial infrastructure construction, Huawei provides an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based credit assessment service solution. Based on the end-to-end service data of mobile wallet, mobile payment, and mobile financial products, Huawei helps financial institutions perform customer profiling and credit assessment.
Injecting New Vitality into FSI to Build Financial Inclusion
China has a leading global position in promoting financial inclusion development because of its abundance of sophisticated financial technology, especially in payment infrastructure and credit infrastructure construction, which can serve as a good reference point for other developing countries. Chinese companies have also played an important role in FinTech development in Emerging Markets (EMs). Huawei plays a key role in telecom infrastructure construction in these EMs, eliminates the digital divide by building an inclusive connected network, and builds a solid foundation for financial inclusion based on connectivity.
Huawei has become the most important technology and solution provider for mobile financial services. By applying mobile, data, open architecture, and security technologies, Huawei has developed integrated financial solutions — including mobile wallets, mobile payment, and micro and small business financing platforms — to fuel the growth of inclusive financial services and boost the digitization of banks.
Huawei’s Mobile Money Solution has been used worldwide for 10 years, and it serves 206 million users, bringing huge benefits for banks and carriers. With growing cooperation between EMs, boosted by the China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Huawei aims to build on its DFI successes and cooperate more with financial institutions in fields such as supervisory technology and FinTech services.
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By Stephanie Lynch-Habib, Chief Marketing Officer for GSMA, gave the following introduction at the Huawei 2021 Pre-MWCS Media & Analyst briefing on February 18th, 2021
Previous generations of mobile connectivity have each made incremental progress in terms of how we live and work. And now, just two years after 4G became the dominant technology globally, and while we are still scratching the surface of all that 5G can achieve, I am excited by its potential to fundamentally transform how all industries operate.
When combined with technologies like AI, IoT, and Big Data, the opportunities are limitless, enabling enterprise to create a new generation of connected cars, workshops, factories and warehouses. The benefit is that information is constantly exchanged to optimise the production process and detect the risk of breakdowns or errors.
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It is my firm belief that these new technologies should benefit the many, not the few. That’s why we have a collective responsibility to upskill the workforces of today and tomorrow. By ensuring every person is able to thrive in an increasingly digital economy, we will be able to ensure technologies like 5G reach their full potential.
Looking to the future, mobile technology will remain critical to our recovery. This year whole industries, organisations of all kinds and people in every country have taken an accelerated step into the future – a future made possible by digital transformation. For industry sectors like manufacturing, healthcare and transport, recovery is dependent on finding efficiencies. 5G is the key enabling technology for Industry 4.0 and one of the strongest building blocks for a reinforced economy.
Currently in a nascent stage, 5G momentum is building. By the end of this year, 5G will reach 1 in every 5 people globally. And that reach will be even greater from next year, as mobile operators are expected to invest around US$1.1 trillion in mobile CAPEX worldwide from now until 2025, of which 80% will be in 5G.
Enthusiasm is very strong in China. By 2025, 5G will account for almost half of mobile connections here.
At MWC Shanghai, we are releasing a series of 5G use cases for enterprise. GSMA’s 5G Innovation and Investment Group here in China – called 5G IN – is very active as it brings together mobile operators and investors to seek new pioneers and business models.
With its investment, large population and the availability of local devices, China will continue to dominate global 5G connections, and, by 2025, China will account for nearly half of 5G connections, globally.
There is no doubt that 5G will be a key pillar of the era of intelligent connectivity, supporting economic growth, transforming business, delivering innovative new services, and unlocking the power of connectivity so that people, industry, and society thrive.
China has just entered the Year of the Ox, which symbolises strength and determination and that’s something we could all do with a lot of that right now.
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About the AuthorStephanie Habib-Lynch, CMO, GSMA
Stephanie is a global leader in the technology sector, with over 25 years of experience. As Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at the GSMA, she is responsible for driving the Association’s global marketing and communications strategy to support and enable business success for the GSMA and its members.
Stephanie holds an M.S degree in Entrepreneurial Finance, Strategic Cost Accounting from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and a B.S. degree in Finance from Rutgers University.
About talabat:
talabat transformed the food ordering business in the Middle East when it launched in Kuwait in 2004. With a network of over 28,000 vendors and 48,500 branches, talabat has become the home of food and groceries in the Middle East. Today, talabat lives to help people create and enjoy the moments that matter. With talabat as their trusted sidekick, customers can spend less time preparing food, shopping for groceries, and focus their time doing what matters to them. talabat is currently part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food ordering and delivery.
About Delivery Hero:
Delivery Hero is the world’s leading local delivery platform, operating its service in 50 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa. The company started as a food delivery service since 2011 and today runs its own delivery platform on four continents. Additionally, Delivery Hero is pioneering quick commerce, the next generation of e-commerce, aiming to bring groceries and household goods to customers within20 minutes. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company has been listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange since 2017, and became part of the leading index DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex) in 2020.
Background:
talabat expanded into the Egyptian market through a rebrand of Otlob - a local food delivery platform that was also under the same holding company - Delivery Hero. Otlob was established in 1999 - the very first food delivery platform in the region - and considered a strong brand in the Egyptian market. talabat decided that they will operate with their regional name “talabat” and wanted to rebrand and introduce the new brand in Egypt.
Challenges:
The challenge was not only in introducing the brand, but there was also a fear of losing current Otlob customers to competition in this transitional phase.
Partnership:
talabat Egypt and AppGallery partnered by creating a co-branded campaign with the primary objective to enhance brand awareness and increase active users for talabat Egypt. The campaign was launched from 15th September to 21st October 2020 and consisted of two phases: “Download & Win” Campaign for improving download performance and “Order & Win” Campaign for increasing activation.
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The two brands have worked together to offer a wide range of promotional activities and benefit to users. Discount vouchers, competitions, prizes, and giveaways have been provided during this campaign and promoted via diverse channels from both parts such as Splash and Head banners, Push Notifications, Social Media Channels, Outdoors advertising, and influencer’s campaign.
The campaign has also focused on improving the user experience by creating a simplified and short graphical interface while using the talabat Egypt app in AppGallery.
Results:
The co-branded campaign launched by both brands has seen tremendous success. The result has shown positive results in terms of conversion between impressions and downloads. Total downloads increased by 225% during the campaign and peaked almost eight times (compared to the historical data) at the beginning of October. Moreover, the promotional activities (vouchers redemption) rate was higher than the global average, reaching 40% of total redemptions. Finally, talabat Cost per Acquisition (CPA) has seen a significant decrease of almost 35%. These results helped both Huawei and talabat overachieve the set KPIs for the campaign and convinced the food&grocery delivery group of the substantial value Huawei Ecosystem brings to the table. It also gave talabat’s management immense confidence to continue investing the technical resources with Huawei Ecosystem for future collaborations.
This partnership has enabled talabat users in Egypt to access the app from the convenience of their mobile devices with a safe and contactless online payment and offered to Huawei users a reliable platform that provides a wide selection of cuisine across Egypt right on time from the comfort of their home. talabat app in Egypt is now fully integrated within the Huawei Mobile Service ecosystem, thereby enabling a smooth and an enhanced user experience.
About AppGallery –Top 3 Global App Marketplace
AppGallery is a smart and innovative ecosystem that allows developers to create unique experiences for consumers. Our unique HMS Core allows apps to be integrated across different devices, delivering more convenience and a smoother experience – and this is part of our wider "1+8+N" strategy at Huawei.
Our vision is to make AppGallery an open, innovative app distribution platform that is accessible to consumers, and at the same time, strictly protects users' privacy and security while providing them with a unique and smart experience. Being the top 3 global app marketplaces, AppGallery offers a wide variety of global and local apps across 18 categories including navigation & transport, news, social media, and others. AppGallery is available in more than 170 countries and regions with over 530 million monthly active users. Huawei has partnered with 2.3 million developers across the globe, and the total apps distribution from AppGallery have reached 384.4 billion times within 2020.
[Singapore/Hong Kong, August 3, 2021] The Asia-Pacific Spark Founders Summit, held simultaneously in Singapore and Hong Kong SAR, featured announcements of four initiatives — including the Cloud-Cloud Collaboration and Innovation Program — from HUAWEI CLOUD, with a key goal to supercharge startup growth. Mr. Zhang Ping'an, Senior Vice President of Huawei, CEO of Huawei Cloud BU, and President of Huawei Consumer Cloud Service, said at the event: "Going forward, we will step up our support for startups through joint outreach by HUAWEI CLOUD and Huawei Mobile Services, as well as by leveraging our continuous technological innovation, global and local services, and high-quality business ecosystems."
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Mr. Zhang Ping'an, Senior Vice President of Huawei, CEO of Huawei Cloud BU, and President of Huawei Consumer Cloud Service, delivering his keynote speech
Huawei's four initiatives to supercharge startup growth
"HUAWEI CLOUD has always been supporting startups." Mr. Zhang Ping'an said during his speech. "Huawei works with local governments, leading incubators, well-known VCs, and universities, building support platforms for startups across many regions." "We launched the Spark Program in Asia Pacific last year, with 40 startups joining us so far." Mr. Zhang Ping'an added. "We have already helped four of these startups launch new products and completely transform their businesses, while helping eight enter new markets."
Initiative 1: Joint outreach by HUAWEI CLOUD and HMS
Huawei combines HUAWEI CLOUD infrastructure with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) to empower all industries, from media, entertainment, and finance, to the industrial Internet, healthcare, and education. HUAWEI CLOUD and HMS developers and partners will benefit from unified accounts, one-stop development platforms, and one-stop app distribution and marketing.
By relying on Huawei's global HMS ecosystem, startups can have access to more growth opportunities. Today, HMS is the world's third largest mobile app ecosystem, serving 4.5 million developers in over 170 countries and regions. Working with customers and partners, Huawei is committed to building an all-platform, all-device application ecosystem, and delivering the best digital experience to users worldwide.
Initiative 2: Continuous tech innovation
By providing cloud services worldwide with rapid elasticity, excellent performance, and a consistent experience, HUAWEI CLOUD helps startups accelerate their growth and expand into global markets.
More specifically, HUAWEI CLOUD's Cloud-Native 2.0 solution helps enterprises build full-stack, agile capabilities by leveraging highly efficient infrastructure and leading cloud-native technologies, from containers to big data.
Nestia, a Singapore-based startup, has built agile capabilities using HUAWEI CLOUD, improving performance by 20% and cutting costs by 30%. In addition, by joining the HMS ecosystem, Nestia's app can be distributed through Huawei AppGallery, expanding the startup's reach to 1.3 million registered users and 200,000 active daily users.
UCARS, an online car marketplace in Singapore, used HUAWEI CLOUD ModelArts to build the first AI-driven car valuation tool in Southeast Asia. This tool can estimate a car's resale value within seconds, vastly improving the efficiency of sales. Today, UCARS is one of the fastest-growing online car marketplaces in Singapore.
J&T EXPRESS is an Indonesian express delivery company operating in several countries and regions in Southeast Asia. To meet the demand for rapidly scalable IT resources, J&T worked with HUAWEI CLOUD to build on-premises cloud resource pools, resulting in a five-fold improvement in system capacity. Now, J&T has become the No. 1 delivery services company in the region.
Initiative 3: Global + local services
HUAWEI CLOUD operates 45 availability zones in 23 different geographic regions around the world. In Asia Pacific, it operates seven AZs in Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, and Thailand, with local service teams in over 10 countries and regions. Capable of delivering cloud services globally with a consistent experience and superb performance, HUAWEI CLOUD is an ideal choice for startups in Asia Pacific that wish to expand into global markets.
Initiative 4: High-quality business ecosystems
A high-quality ecosystem is crucial for startups to succeed. With this in mind, HUAWEI CLOUD has built high-quality ecosystems for startups in Asia Pacific, covering consulting services, SaaS partners, software partners, as well as governments, and top venture capitals. HUAWEI CLOUD has in-depth cooperation with over 2,000 ecosystem partners in Asia Pacific. In Hong Kong SAR and Singapore specifically, the cloud service provider is working with local governments, top VCs, and top universities to build support platforms for startups. These platforms provide a range of services, from resource support and financing opportunities to coaching and more.
Cloud-Cloud Collaboration and Innovation Program
Combining the strengths of HUAWEI CLOUD with HMS, this program helps accelerate the growth of startups through the following initiatives:
Resource support: HUAWEI CLOUD and HMS will each provide US$20 million worth of resources and benefits for free.
Funding opportunities: This year, Huawei plans to support over 200 startups in the HMS ecosystem and recommend over 100 HMS partners to top investment organizations.
Channel sharing: Huawei will share its global channels with developers worldwide and help them reach 1 billion device users through Huawei's consumer cloud service platform.
Talent cultivation: Huawei will build HMS developer innovation centers by working with 210 well-known universities in Asia-Pacific. The goal to cultivate over 100,000 HMS cloud-native developers.
Startup are the future of the economy and seeds of potential just waiting to be unleashed. Going forward, in Asia Pacific, HUAWEI CLOUD will continue to invest heavily and work with partners to build inclusive, robust, innovative startup ecosystems, in turn transforming them into powerful engines that drive digital transformation.
HUAWEI CLOUD is second in China and No. 5 in the global IaaS market, and remains one of the fastest growing major cloud service providers in the world.
Original Link:https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2021/7/huawei-robust-startup-ecosystems