(Yicai Global) April 21 -- Huawei Technologies has developed its own enterprise management system to replace products the US government barred the Chinese telecoms giant from buying. 

MetaERP will replace the legacy enterprise resource planning system Huawei has been using since 1996, the Shenzhen-based firm said yesterday. The supplier, a US software company, cut off access to its products and services soon after the US government added Huawei to a trade blacklist in May 2019.

The US move pushed Huawei “back to the agrarian era from a modern society overnight,” a company insider told Yicai Global. To prevent Huawei’s management from regressing, and at the same time solve problems with the US-made ERP system, the firm decided to start researching and developing an independent and controllable MetaERP system, the person added.

MetaERP handles all of Huawei's business scenarios and 80 percent of its business volume, the company noted. The new system has passed monthly, quarterly, and yearly settlement tests, ensuring zero faults, delays, and accounting adjustments, Huawei added. It took three years to research and develop.

MetaERP fully uses Huawei's operating system, database, compiler, and language, founder Ren Zhengfei said at the end of last month.

The transformative project has been the most extensive and complex Huawei has ever undertaken, according to the company. Over the past three years, it has invested significant resources and assigned several thousand people to the project, the firm noted.

Huawei began using the name MetaERP when the project was initiated in 2020, the company insider told Yicai Global, noting that it has nothing to do with the Metaverse concept.

“MetaERP is inspired by the word Metadata,” the person pointed out. “The aim is to reflect the fact that the software can quickly respond to changeable business management needs under many business model scenarios.”

In the future, Huawei and its partners will focus on the goal of 'ultra-simple structure, ultra-high quality, and ultra-premium experience' to build self-developed core business systems that are more effective, secure, and under the control of Chinese firms, Huawei pointed out.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Martin Kadiev