Due to the trade ban with Oracle, Huawei built its own ERP running on its own ARM chips.

Since the 2019 trade ban between the US and Huawei, numerous technology providers have been banned from supplying the Chinese telecom giant. That included Oracle, Huawei’s ERP service provider, according to The Register. In the same year, Huawei immediately started developing its own ERP system under the name MetaERP.

In 2020, he was stripped of full access to all core operating and management systems by Oracle, according to Huawei. At the same time, the first components of MetaERP were rolled out. Today the entire system has been replaced and everything within Huawei runs on its own ERP program. Such a rapid switch would make many SAP customers jealous of their adventure towards migrating to S/4HANA.

“Today, MetaERP processes 100 percent of all business scenarios within Huawei and 80 percent of business volume. The platform ran through all monthly, quarterly and yearly results with flying colors without any errors, delays or accounting adjustments. MetaERP is a future-oriented, cloud-native system that is working at scale and is live today. The old ERP system was completely replaced.”

The system is perfect in the eyes of Huawei.

Linux and Kunpeng

The ERP system runs on a proprietary EulerOS Linux distribution and a GaussDB relational database. It’s unknown what hardware the system will run on, but since EulerOS and GausDB can run on Huawei’s own Kunpeng processors, there’s a good chance that MetaERP will also include its own ARM chips.

Anyone who now realizes that Huawei is very proud of the project does not yet know the title of the event at which this news was announced. “Heroes Fight to Cross the River Dadu”. This moment is known as one of the most important moments in the history of the Communist Party.

The pressure within Huawei to find a solution quickly was enormous. We’re impressed that they built a full ERP system (with many open source elements) in four years while completing a migration from Oracle. Take advantage, too, of the system running on Huawei’s own chips, and you see that the Chinese telecom giant has suddenly made the switch completely on its own.

Since the trade ban, Huawei has been fighting for survival like the devil in the holy water font. After numerous setbacks, the telecom player is gradually reemerging, even if it still has a long way to go to be fully operational again, completely independent of the US.