Huawei Cloud WeLink is launched to subvert your imagination of smart office

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[51CTO.com original article] Huawei Cloud recently launched the intelligent work platform WeLink in Beijing. In the on-site demonstration, WeLink completely overturned people's perception of traditional office collaboration: on the WeLink platform, through NFC or on-site code scanning, the mobile phone screen can be used to sync with the conference whiteboard, and all files in the mobile phone can be "fly" to the projection screen with one click; through the AI ​​work assistant Xiaowei, you can book and reimburse travel with one click; you can find colleagues and emails directly by voice, and you can clock in and out by speaking to the phone; when meeting with colleagues from overseas branches, the smart terminal can realize all meeting functions, and 7 languages ​​can be directly translated into Chinese in real time in the meeting group, and reading is barrier-free; if you encounter foreign language materials, use the translation function, and the system will translate and send them to the mailbox with one click; meeting minutes are automatically generated after the meeting, so you don't have to worry about missing key points at the meeting...

Over the past three years, Huawei's 190,000 employees have worked hard to make Huawei Cloud WeLink a product that is stunning as soon as it debuts. Xue Hao, Vice President of Huawei Cloud and President of Connectivity and Collaboration Business, said that intelligence and efficiency are only one of the three core advantages of Huawei Cloud WeLink. Compared with similar products, Huawei Cloud WeLink is more secure, reliable, and open, opening up a new intelligent experience of digital office for government and enterprises and helping to achieve digital transformation.

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An intelligent work platform that understands enterprises better

In an interview with the media after the meeting, Xue Hao said that the reason why it took so long to continuously polish WeLink was because Huawei Cloud found that many corporate customers always felt that they had no handle when talking about digital transformation. They hoped that Huawei could take the lead in sharing its own transformation practices and digital office experience, and provide a "proven" digital tool so that everyone can truly feel the value of digitalization.

During this process, HUAWEI CLOUD further discovered that the demands of different corporate and industry customers are not the same, and cannot be solved by a simple social tool. There are also needs for collaborative office efficiency, information security, separation of corporate data security and personal application security, open neutrality, etc. Therefore, HUAWEI CLOUD WeLink has made a very clear positioning from the beginning - an intelligent work platform that understands the enterprise better, not just an enterprise social tool. This can be clearly distinguished from many enterprise collaboration software on the market.

Xue Hao also told reporters that Huawei Cloud has found that the digitalization of office is most closely related to the digitalization of enterprises, so putting WeLink on Huawei Cloud can serve as a tool to allow enterprises to feel the digitalization of the cloud more intuitively. In addition, Huawei Cloud's partners can also establish connections with WeLink, thereby promoting the digital transformation of the entire enterprise and improving the efficiency of the enterprise.

Two major challenges in the industrialization process and future reserves

In the process of productization, Huawei Cloud WeLink also encountered some challenges. For example, the most prominent one is the openness issue. The concept of Huawei Cloud WeLink is that the employees of an enterprise belong to the enterprise, the assets of the enterprise belong to the enterprise, and the data of the enterprise belongs to the enterprise. In order to better meet the needs of enterprises, Huawei Cloud solves the problem through a three-layer processing method: first, the overall architecture remains unchanged, and enterprises can do some exclusive form development; second, it helps enterprises to realize the superposition of functional modules, using the method of building blocks of application modules to help enterprises choose the functional modules they need more; finally, the API level and SDK are open, and enterprises can directly integrate the functions of WeLink into their existing apps to realize office automation.

"We also encountered some very representative challenges. Enterprises had many legacy systems before. How to use these software systems and hardware systems to achieve better inheritance?" Xue Hao said, "Huawei Cloud's approach is to combine hardware through the empowerment of WeLink and IoT, and integrate enterprise data on Huawei Cloud. In this way, enterprises can gradually and inherit their own digital transformation."

When asked by reporters how the deepening of 5G technology will benefit WeLink in the future, Xue Hao believes that 5G technology has opened a door and will generate many creative scenarios in corporate office collaboration scenarios, and WeLink has also made sufficient preparations for this. He gave an example that WeLink connects things through IoT, supports more than 100 IoT protocols, and has also expanded more than 10,000 digital models to help companies achieve smarter connections between things and people. In addition, in the field of video conferencing, Huawei Cloud hopes that with the arrival of 5G technology, video conferencing information sharing can fully utilize the convenience brought by 5G technology, and work with partners to create new business scenarios and truly bring some differentiated applications to the industry.

Co-create, share and win together

The reporter learned that Huawei Cloud WeLink hardware can be purchased directly by enterprises, and there are currently free use activities. The software platform is divided into basic services and value-added services: basic services include mailboxes, messages, groups, and approvals that are necessary for corporate offices, and enterprises can subscribe according to the number of employees; value-added services provide more intelligent and secure services, such as AI assistants, smart conference rooms, corporate cloud disks, confidential communications, etc., which enterprises can purchase on demand according to their needs. In addition, Huawei Cloud has also opened up the application market, which contains many partner applications, such as WPS, OA, etc., and corporate users can download and pay on demand. For some government and enterprise users with higher demands, Huawei Cloud can also carry out customized development.

At the press conference, Huawei Cloud also announced the establishment of the Huawei Cloud WeLink Ecological Alliance. Xue Hao explained that Huawei's attitude towards partners and ecology has always been neutral and open, not binding any application, and not forcing any enterprise application. Xue Hao also revealed that in the process of opening up, Huawei Cloud has three enablers. First, Huawei hopes that partners will be assured that it will not compete with partners for profits; second, Huawei hopes to make partners feel comfortable. This is not simply to let partners put applications on the Huawei application market, but in this process, Huawei continues to open up the leading technology value through WeLink to make partners' products more competitive; third, Huawei hopes to create, share and win together with partners, so that partners can truly succeed in business, then the alliance will always maintain an open and neutral position.

At present, WeLink has 195,000 Huawei users worldwide, with a daily active rate of 99.8% and more than 12 million daily connections. Through WeLink, the overall collaboration efficiency of Huawei employees around the world has increased by 30%, employee satisfaction has reached more than 90 points, and the App delivery cycle has been reduced from 90 days to 7 days. I believe that in the near future, as Huawei Cloud WeLink is accepted by more companies, it will surely bring more surprises to customers.

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