IBM, Huawei team up on enterprise solutions

IBM's enterprise consultancy, IBM Global Business Service, has joined up with Huawei to create enterprise solutions, initially for Chinese companies, but with global aspirations, The Register reports.

Huawei wants its smartphones embedded into businesses, and to give those businesses a reason to buy its tablets, too.

IBM wants to push its Chinese presence and tap into the expediently expanding market, which it hopes to do with Huawei's help, but to Huawei, this is just another step on the road to global domination.

The jointly developed platform is called 'Smart Workspace@Mobile' though, at the moment, it is little more than slideware and aspirational statements. It will involve Huawei's device management systems, and apply IBM's experience with enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and supply chain management, to create a combined solution to be pushed heavily into the energy and retail industries.

According to Total Telecom, Huawei brings its expertise on the devices side to the partnership, while IBM Global Business Services provides business consulting.

″We are joining forces to create a smart mobile office solution,” said Wan Biao, CEO of Huawei Device.

″The solution will help enterprises customise their mobile office platform on tablets and smartphones,″ he said. The service integrates with enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain and inventory management systems, he explained.