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Updated on 2025-02-24 GMT+08:00
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Competency Differentiation

Competency differentiation enables you to explore more competencies differentiated from others and serve customers better so that you can earn customer trust and win more business opportunities.

Procedure

  1. Use your account to log in to Huawei Cloud.
  2. Click Partner Center in the drop-down list of your account name in the upper right corner.
  3. View the requirements of competency differentiation for service partners in the Development Paths Selected area on the Home page.

  4. Fulfill the requirements of the competency differentiation phase.

    1. Individual certifications
      • Number of dedicated Huawei Cloud project managers with Project Management Professional (PMP), International Project Management Association (IPMA) Level C, or Huawei Certified ICT Professional (HCIP) - Project Management certificate or any other equivalent or higher-level certificate. (The eligible certificate types include PMP, IPMA Levels A, B,, and C, and HCIP-PM.)
      • HCCDP: Collect the number of HCCDP and HCIP-Cloud Service Solutions Architect certificates.
      • HCCDE: Collect the number of HCCDE and HCIE-Cloud Service Solutions Architect certificates.
      • Certificates of a partner's employees can be shared with the partner only after the HUAWEI IDs of the employees have been associated with the partner administrator account. For details, see How Do I Bind an Individual Certificate to a Partner Account?
    2. Competency certification

      At least one of the following competencies is required: cloud migration, database, Ascend Cloud, AI platform, big data, cloud native, application modernization, and SAP. Other competencies that can be certified are subject to the valid competencies released by Huawei Cloud.

      For details, see Requesting Competency Certification.

  5. Click Certification Application after meeting the competency differentiation requirements. In the displayed dialog box, upload required materials and submit them.

    • After submitting the case materials, choose Partner Information > Case Management in the drop-down list of your account name to view the review status and case details.
    • After submitting the business plan, choose Partner Information > Business Plan in the drop-down list of your account name to view the review status and business plan details.
    • After the competency differentiation certification is complete, you can download the certificate on the details page of the service partner development path.
    • If you fail the competency differentiation certification, modify and complete the information based on the failure cause and submit the application again.

  6. Click View Details after the entire journey of the development path certification is complete to view the benefits and certificates available.