Huawei Presented With Two Excellence Awards at the TM Forum 2015 in the Open Digital Ecosystem and Agile Business & IT Categories

[Nice, France, June 9, 2015] At the TM Forum Live, Huawei was presented with the Agile Business & IT Solution Provider Excellence Award for its Business Support System (BSS) and the Open Digital Ecosystem Excellence Award for its Digital inCloud solution. The Excellence Awards recognize the global leaders in communications and acknowledge the contributions and innovations they make in the ICT industry.

“This year’s Excellence Awards finalists have raised the bar overall for the entire industry,” said Nik Willetts, Chief Digital Officer, TM Forum. “We’ve seen phenomenal work from Huawei and the other finalists which delivers the efficiency and agility that today’s service providers require to compete in an open digital world. These world-class companies are making huge strides to deliver the digital services of tomorrow.”

Huawei Digital inCloud is an end-to-end ICT solution that helps operators build and monetize a digital ecosystem, ultimately increasing their revenue. Digital inCloud expands digital services into new domains to serve individuals and new businesses. Based on software-defined architecture, the solution provides a unified open digital platform and supports agile application innovation. In addition, the solution enables operators to aggregate and distribute ready-to-go global digital services and content from partners in various domains, and optimizes digital business operations like e-commerce in the cloud.

Huawei BSS is designed for supporting communications service providers in accomplishing digital business transformation in the areas of digital customer experience, diverse digital products, and partner business operations. The system leverages a fully integrated stack of modularized components to achieve digital transformation in the following core capabilities:

• Supporting multi-channel customer journeys with online marketing, sales and service while enabling cross-channel collaboration.

• Enabling flexible and quick configuration with operators and third-party products.

• Delivering proactive care strategies to optimize customer value through superior customer experience.

• Generating new revenue streams through open digital ecosystems and business models, based on partner aggregation and enablement.

• Providing lower total cost of ownership for architecture and infrastructure through cloud-based and componentized solutions.

In its ninth year, the Excellence Awards program recognizes the global service and solution providers who are making significant contributions to the entire digital ecosystem. A total of eight awards are judged by an independent panel of industry and subject matter experts, analysts and investors.