Brief: Huawei Has Strong Infrastructure Offerings And Is Progressing Toward BT

CIOs juggle the competing objectives of keeping the lights on and delivering business technology (BT) innovation, which is a derivative of time, speed, cost, and alignment with business objectives. Huawei Technologies is making strong efforts to evolve from its solid carrier position and become a formidable enterprise BT provider. Huawei is already an important global supplier — its enterprise business grew by 27% in 2014 to reach US$3.1 billion — as well as a strong IT and BT provider in China. However, despite its clear progress toward fulfilling its ambitions to help companies win, serve, and retain customers, Huawei's ability to deliver BT on a global scale remains a work in progress. As the company continues to grow, CIOs must develop clarity about how and where to engage with Huawei for the BT agenda.