India Has The Most Developed Software Industry: Huawei

Established in the year 1999 in Bengaluru, Huawei Technologies India is the first overseas R&D centre of the Chinese ICT solutions provider. The R&D centre plays a key role in the innovation taking place globally, both at a software and a hardware level, says Tornado Pan, country manager, Consumer Business Group, Huawei India. “The India R&D centre also partners with universities and colleges to transfer knowledge, promote a greater understanding of, and interest in the ICT sector and encourage participation in the digital community,” he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in a recent interaction. Excerpts:

What is Huawei’s direction and strategy for future product research and development?
Huawei will never cease to bring in customer-centric meaningful innovations that adds value to users’ lives. There are many aspects and possibilities to hardware and software innovation that can improve user experiences. Huawei currently has 16 research centres around the world and is among the top five biggest spenders in R&D and has spent $15.3 billion towards it in 2018. India is a strategic market for us and the country has the most developed software industry in the world. Therefore, we have set up an R&D centre here that specialises in software. Huawei’s R&D centre in India is the largest overseas centre.

Established in the year 1999 in Bengaluru, Huawei Technologies India is the first overseas R&D centre of the Chinese ICT solutions provider. The R&D centre plays a key role in the innovation taking place globally, both at a software and a hardware level, says Tornado Pan, country manager, Consumer Business Group, Huawei India. “The India R&D centre also partners with universities and colleges to transfer knowledge, promote a greater understanding of, and interest in the ICT sector and encourage participation in the digital community,” he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in a recent interaction. Excerpts:

What is Huawei’s direction and strategy for future product research and development?
Huawei will never cease to bring in customer-centric meaningful innovations that adds value to users’ lives. There are many aspects and possibilities to hardware and software innovation that can improve user experiences. Huawei currently has 16 research centres around the world and is among the top five biggest spenders in R&D and has spent $15.3 billion towards it in 2018. India is a strategic market for us and the country has the most developed software industry in the world. Therefore, we have set up an R&D centre here that specialises in software. Huawei’s R&D centre in India is the largest overseas centre.—Financial Express