Case Study: Huawei achieves 1000x performance and real-time business operations with SAP HANA

Improving Performance 1000x with SAP HANA Powering Real-Time Business Operations

Huawei, a global leader in information and communications technology with 170,000 employees, faced growing performance bottlenecks as legacy systems struggled to handle massive volumes of production, operations, R&D, and sales data. The company needed real-time processing and faster analytics to accelerate reporting, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, and cross‑system collaboration to support global growth and intelligent manufacturing initiatives.

Huawei adopted the SAP HANA platform and built an integrated in‑memory solution (going live in late 2014) with SAP support to accelerate core applications. The result: dramatic performance gains—up to 1000x system improvement and 10x faster analysis—with financial queries reduced to about 5–7 seconds and supply‑chain queries to around 5 seconds, the ability to process 150 TB and billions of records, real‑time order visualization, and measurable improvements in operational efficiency and new growth opportunities.

Huawei

Yelai Zheng

CIO