HUAWEI CLOUD – Building Inclusive AI
Developing the digital economy should be a key driver of economic transformation in South Africa. Within this context, AI and digitisation offer untold benefits for almost every sector, helping enterprises build relevant, game-changing offerings for their customers and society, reducing costs and revolutionising their services.
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HUAWEI CLOUD can help to realise the vision for South Africa’s digital economy as a foundation for inclusive growth and social upliftment. We envisage an AI future where computing power is readily available, like the air we breathe, unleashing the full, transformative potential of algorithms. HUAWEI CLOUD AI has applications in transportation, logistics, resource management, online education, and retail. It can materially transform mobility, urban planning, farming, mining and several other industries. We have lowered the threshold for entering the AI arena, allowing industry experts to access the productivity benefits of AI, without any of the technology complexity. AI is no longer just an IT capability – it’s an operational requirement.
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HUAWEI CLOUD AI allows organisations to: • Boost efficiency on repetitive, high-volume work • Transfer specialist expertise quickly and seamlessly • Go beyond human intelligence, collaborating across multiple domains The application potential of cloud-enabled AI to solve business problems is limited only by the human imagination. Thanks to Huawei’s integration across the value chain, from our Ascend chips to equipment to services to storage, we are able to offer affordable AI with the capability embedded at every stage. Our solution architects work directly with customers, training and advising free of charge to build proof of concept and proof of value in solving business problems. We don’t charge until we know what success looks like and we achieve it. The mass adoption of AI across sectors is likely to be the transformative moment that allows business to achieve its full potential as a social driver, enabling seamless delivery of services for maximum impact. We see a new business era emerging where AI is pervasive, where intelligent twins guide enterprise planning, intelligent recognition and prediction engines support applications, and decision-making optimisation engines ensure we make the right calls. Thanks to Huawei’s significant investments in building the data centres, the cloud capabilities can support any industry’s expansion into the AI space with one point of contact. Hyperscale computing with multiple vendors is no longer a business necessity. Tech is now a commodity, and the business focus has shifted from capex to opex, as the move to the cloud alleviates complexity. Businesses can now use AI to target their precise enterprise
by Michael Langeveld, VP of HUAWEI CLOUD Africa Region
intelligence needs without any long-term capital requirement. It’s about consuming the service without any of the equipment outlay. For example, the AI capabilities embedded in our cameras allow facial recognition and other AI functionality at source, processing and interpreting data, and alleviating data load through the cloud for faster result rates and business effectiveness. HUAWEI CLOUD offers infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service, with products tailored to leverage all of these for optimal enterprise intelligence. We ensure successful AI implementation by providing clear business scenarios; readily available computing power; continuously evolving AI services; organisation and talent. AI on HUAWEI CLOUD offers great opportunities to democratise business. With affordable, accessible “freemium” offerings, and training integrated into product, barriers to entry are crumbling – empowering SMEs to compete in established industries. For the public sector, the delivery of services can be revolutionised through the power of data. AI is also now a low-risk technology. Potential customers can access free cloud assets to learn, experiment, build use cases and assess their needs, with full Huawei engineering support.
About HUAWEI CLOUD
HUAWEI CLOUD now distills 30+ years of accumulated technology, innovation, and expertise in the ICT infrastructure field to offer customers everything as a service. You can grow your enterprise in the best environment with stable, secure, and ever-improving HUAWEI CLOUD services and affordable, inclusive AI. HUAWEI CLOUD provides a powerful computing platform and easy-to-use development platform to support Huawei’s full-stack, all-scenario AI strategy. By the end of 2019, HUAWEI CLOUD had launched 200+ cloud services and 190+ solutions. News agencies, social media platforms, law enforcement, automobile manufacturers, gene sequencing organisations, financial institutions, and a long list of other industry customers are all benefiting in significant ways from HUAWEI CLOUD. 3500 applications were added to the HUAWEI CLOUD marketplace with offerings from more than 10000 business partners. Web: https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/ For more information, please visit Huawei online at www.huawei.com or follow us on: http://www.huawei.com/za/ ai
