COMPASS 2024: Huawei Cloud "Cloud-nects" Businesses in Latin America and China for New Growth
May 15, 2024
[Dongguan, China, May 15, 2024] Huawei Cloud kicked off its COMPASS 2024 for Latin America yesterday, a 200-strong event themed "Unlock New Growth, Reimagine New Possibilities." Enterprise and technology leaders from Latin America and China gathered to explore building new service experiences, innovative business models, and enhanced operational efficiency through Huawei Cloud's advanced technologies. The business summit unveiled the groundbreaking CHANGE architecture, tailored for finance, government, e-commerce, and media industries, to achieve new growth on the cloud.
In his opening speech, Daniel Zhou, President of Huawei Latin America, highlighted Huawei's commitment to supporting local enterprises in their digital transformation journeys. He shared that, "Huawei Cloud is now the fastest growing cloud in Latin America, securing the third-place position in the local IaaS market last year, with a rapidly growing customer base of 7,000. In serving these customers, we streamline the process for you to make the most of the cloud. This year, Huawei Cloud has launched the third AZ in Brazil and planned the same for Mexico to provide services for more customers, partners, and developers. We are committed to bringing more cutting-edge innovative technologies to you as your engine of new business growth."
Daniel Zhou, President, Huawei Latin America
Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, stated that, "We are entering a new era, and Huawei Cloud is always here for you, with innovative technologies to help you reconstruct architectures, modernize applications, accelerate intelligent upgrades, and unlock the value of data. Our industry solutions and expertise are well tuned to pave your way to success. A local ecosystem will be a bridge that connects China and Latin America. We strive to be the best partner for you, and we stride together to a brighter future."
Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud
Fernando Liu, President of Huawei Cloud Latin America, stressed the company's unwavering commitment to providing stable, reliable, and secure cloud services to accelerate intelligence across various industries. He detailed the hybrid cloud offering with a unified architecture, alongside services like the software development pipeline CodeArts, the next-gen cloud database GaussDB, data warehouse GaussDB(DWS), and virtual human technology – all designed to empower enterprises in tackling digital transformation challenges.
Fernando Liu, President, Huawei Cloud Latin America
Two honorable guests shared their success experiences working with Huawei Cloud. MV, the biggest healthcare IT company in Brazil, migrated their database to Huawei Cloud GaussDB, experiencing a significant improvement in medical record query speed (from 3 to 0.5 seconds) and reduced registration time (by 20% on average per patient). Argentina's top 1 multimedia group, Clarin, leveraged Huawei Cloud to manage peak traffic during live streams with enhanced stability and lower latency.
Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Global Solution Sales, holds that digital transformation challenges can be resolved with a systematic approach and an innovative architecture. Mr. Chen then presented the "CHANGE" strategic architecture, a best-practice solution for industry digital transformation.
CHANGE encompasses cloud-native new infrastructure, holistic technology platform, advanced scenario-specific solutions, neat and graceful professional services, and expertise consulting service – all designed to deliver exceptional user experiences, operational efficiency, and business value across finance, government, e-commerce, and media sectors.
Mark Chen, President, Huawei Cloud Solution Sales
Beyond insightful keynotes, the summit featured industry-themed roundtables and the China-LATAM Business Connect Forum. These interactive sessions focused on advanced technologies, industry challenges, and facilitated communication between Chinese and Latin American businesses, promoting collaboration across diverse industries.
The forum commenced with the speech by Mr. Héctor J. Dorbecker, Counsellor of Economic, Technology, New Industries and Financial Affairs from the Embassy of Mexico in China, who emphasized the importance of international partnership in scientific and technological advancements. He commended the summit for fostering communication and collaboration between China and Mexico, and shared the vision of a digital future built on the joint efforts from the both parties.
Mr. Héctor J. Dorbecker, Counsellor of Economic, Technology, New Industries and Financial Affairs, Embassy of Mexico in China
William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, underscored Latin America's significance as one of Huawei's earliest global markets, spanning over 25 years of exploration. "Huawei Cloud is committed to providing you high-quality, low-latency local cloud services alongside cutting-edge technologies such as AI development, data governance, and software development pipelines. Leveraging Huawei's extensive experience in both Latin America and China, Huawei Cloud aims to facilitate market expansion, brand internationalization, and local ecosystem development for you. Being a trusted partner, Huawei Cloud seeks to 'cloud-nect' China and Latin America, enabling more Chinese enterprises to venture into LATAM and more LATAM enterprises into China."
William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing
Moving forward, Huawei Cloud remains committed to its "Everything as a Service" strategy and the "In Latin America, for Latin America" principle. By working hand-in-hand with customers and partners, Huawei Cloud aspires to accelerate industry development and high-quality digital transformation across both regions.