#software

Can someone explain how they are tracking productivity? What’s the software? Is it just Viva Insights? What are they tracking? Who gets the reports? Please share if you actually know. This is important info for all of us!

Never works. Horrid software.

Jeremy Bachelor in Arts is giving a speech on software today,
other speakers Martha Stewart on differential equations,
and the Michelin man on theology.

Anyone who's spent five seconds using them knows that Excel is way better than Sheets than what you'd get from say, Copilot vs. Google Gemini. Are they trying to destroy my productivity? I already know the answer. You complete fu--ing mo--ns.

We just heard that AI was used to generate an embedded software application that was previously written by a team of 10 software engineers. It took the team 8 months to create the embedded software.

AI completed the task in 22.6 hours. There was a 4.3% error rate that required manual correction. AI is getting better though...

Layoffs are coming especially for anyone that writes software by hand.

The architect for our organization keeps using Gartner reports , online research and chatgpt to command what the devs need to do. He has no clue on real software development, has not written a line of code and woefully incompetent. Our MD loves the BS this person produces with power point slides. EA org loves him as they are equally incompetent. My head hurts and I am losing all will to try push for coding the appropriately designed software stack for our business.

WHAT a surprise? All the software EV bullsh-t is out and the traditional car guy to rescue? Looking forward to the Apple exodus from Ford. Those cocky A H**

Well, at least you do not have to support UKG PRO WFM any longer. As a user, this application is a complete piece of SH . . . Well, you get it. WFC might be old, but at least it worked. Sorry for all these folks.

With the corporate split, two major parts of HON that have high barriers to entry are now their own companies. It seems all Automation wants to talk about is software, AI, software, AI, software, AI, which any startup can also sell in. Is the “innovating by powerpoint” finally going to come home to roost, no longer able to hide in the conglomerate?

I am looking to make a heroic return to State Farm. How have things been since 2020 after I left? Has the pay gotten any better? I'm looking at working as a Software Engineer as the market is too brutal right now and this place is my only hope. Is the interview process still easy?

This seems interesting as the classed the trademark was filed is 009, 036, 042.
IC 009: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application
IC 036: Financial exchange; Financial information; Financial processing
IC 042 Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring softwar for tokenization of assets.

You can go to uspto.gov and search for yourself and get more details.....

I write this as a user of QuickBooks, not as an employee. I'm an accountant. QuickBooks has been my lifeblood. Over the past 5 years, this software has been absolutely destroyed. What was simple has become complicated. What was efficient has become slow, clunky, and unresponsive. The A.I. features are an absolute joke, introducing so many errors that have to be manually fixed. The interface screen used to so intuitive, but is now a confusing mess. Function buttons that were on the front screen are now buried under 3 levels of menus. And glitches... now so many glitches. Transactions are lost. Saved items miraculously disappear. Many of my clients have experienced payroll tax issues.

You can tell the coding was outsourced to engineers in India. Total cr-p design.

Customer service is an absolute joke. Foreign people who can barely speak english reading canned responses from their "Intuit Customer Service Book".

This company is going down. They destroyed a great product. Outsource your engineering to a 3rd world country and you'll get 3rd world results.

Last I left in August, you guys were still using ChatGPT or just getting started. Has there been a Switch to Claude Code yet?

Let’s avoid spreading rumors about layoffs- it can be really demotivating and stressful for everyone.

So whoever has been doing this for past few days- please stop!

And nobody should be flippant about it. We all have very good reasons to be anxious.

Block revealed plans to reduce its workforce significantly. The company stated artificial intelligence tools enable a smaller, more effective team. Block shares rose sharply following the news. Conversely, the broader software sector experienced a decline. This market reaction indicates investor approval for tech workforce reductions.

https://www.aol.com/articles/blocks-layoffs-could-3-companies-070500078.html

Ok, what is going on? It still pulls in suspended DL licenses on random people that have verified active licenses, changes coverages randomly at binding, price randomly changes when quote is opened the next day and other glitches.

Support continues to just say "working as intended" "nothing we can do".

Who in the world creates software that cant be be overridden by an admin? For instance if a DL is obviously not suspended because it's active on the DMV website.

Here I am again... Stuck waiting on chat for 30 minutes. I'll probably be told again that "theres nothing they can do..."

No surprises here, we all knew it. The cat is outside the box!

References -
https://www.gurufocus.com/news/8651387/sap-faces-skepticism-over-ai-tool-joule
https://www.cio.com/article/4086426/companies-still-unfamiliar-with-sap-joule.html

Many more articles online

Can anyone name an enterprise software solution Dell has developed organically, or acquired, in which they didn't miss the mark by a mile or drive an acquired solution into the ground?

x400 - failure
DM5500 - failure
Santorini - failure
Hydra - eminent failure
Cyber Recovery - failure
PPDM - failure
VxRail / VCS - failure
Apex - failure
VMware - failure
Quest - failure
SonicWall - failure
Appassure - failure
Boomi - failure
Perot Systems - failure
EMC - ki-led it
Networking - failure
Viper - failure
The list goes on and on...

Dell engineering does not know anything about enterprise software development, at all! They have proven that over and over and over again. Yet, ironically, Dell spends millions upon millions of dollars each year pretending like they do while incompetent engineering and product leadership are never held accountable for their failures. Competitors laugh at us and customers won't touch our software stack. The track record doesn't lie. All Dell knows is low-margin hardware, that's it! Meanwhile, sales has to sell their sh-t!

Last week I did not go into the office and I worked at home. Does Amazon really know where you are working at? I'm thinking I am going to continue staying at home and work. I made it a habit a long time ago not to talk to any of my coworkers when I was going into the office because I don't trust ant of them.

Estimate is around 8500 in count. (Max 12000 if more layoffs in India)

USA - 2,800 people to 3200
India - 4200 - 6500 (Expecting more cuts)
Europe - 1000 to 1500 max

More will be in Software dev and support : 5000+ counts expected (Middleware, DB, ...)
OCI will be saved with minimal layoffs <1000

Seems the 30000 layoff is not immediate and it will be over long term. Seems the estimate was done by the firm for long-term analysis and not for this year and the estimate was purely based on funding to the future commitments.

Basically Senior Management with mostly India team with non-revenue workloads beware . You will be major targets. !00% you can start searching new jobs.

Posts on LinkedIn from affected workers and others at the company shed light on the cuts. Impacted employees include engineers, marketing managers, project managers, and others.

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/smartsheet-layoffs-enterprise-software-giant-cuts-staff/

March 1st it's all over red rover. JAVA UI FTW!!!

Well, this is something new. Hearing about an offshore VP of Software Engineering getting laid off this week in CE.

Anthropic’s Claude can already convert significantly complex SAS programming streams into Python and related libraries. Complex systems of nested macros might require human intervention, but these tools are only going to get better.

IOW, the years are getting shorter for expensive proprietary software like SAS. Recently spoke with someone who is a director at GSK and told me they no longer use SAS in any department she is aware of.

Have we reached a point where it is delusional to think that SAS can recover without coming up with some kind of strong AI-based niche play going forward? Given the acceleration of AI tools that can parse and transform complex programming languages, isn’t it more reasonable to think that SAS has maybe 3 to 5 more years of reliable renewable revenue instead of 8 to 10 more years?

OP: @301+1ke5jkdwp

Autodesk, Inc., a maker of digital design software, announced Thursday it plans to lay off about 1,000 employees, largely in sales roles.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91479393/autodesk-layoffs-today-software-company-1000-jobs-cut-in-latest-tech-downsizing

The fact you cannot remove this garbage from your computer is grounds for Microsoft's CoPilot Team to be fired without receiving any unemployment benefits.

Beginning May 3, the company will implement one of the largest structural changes in its history, driven by the adoption of Oracle software and a shift toward a more siloed operating model.

If it hits $360, that means it's time to exit my position.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/ibm-stock-price-top-pick-2026-35af20b3

By: Mackenzie Tatananni
Updated Jan 08, 2026, 2:59 pm EST / Original Jan 08, 2026, 2:15 pm EST

Skeptics may argue that International Business Machines has lost the clout it had decades ago, but one analyst is doubling down on his bullish bet on the stock heading into the new year.

Much of the negative noise surrounding IBM appears to be unfounded, according to Oppenheimer analyst Param Singh, who has chosen IBM as one of his top picks for 2026. He rates the stock at Outperform with a $360 price target.

IBM stock was 2.1% higher at $303.04 on Thursday as the Nasdaq Composite traded in the red. Singh’s price target suggests the stock can rise another 19%.

Attitudes on the stock are indubitably mixed. Of 22 analysts polled by FactSet, 11 rate IBM at Buy, while seven rate it at Hold, and four at Sell. So why the vote of confidence?

“Bears have the estimates wrong, making expectations low into the print,” Singh said, referring to IBM’s fourth-quarter earnings report due later this month. He believes IBM can deliver durable growth by consistently raising prices, and described its portfolio of software as “sticky,” meaning clients repeatedly return to the products even though alternatives exist.

IBM has been winning bigger contracts because it has more products and services to offer, largely driven by acquisitions and the rollout of new mainframe computers. Last year, it paid $6.4 billion for HashiCorp, a provider of infrastructure and security tools, and has had early success integrating those offerings into its portfolio.

Taken together, these factors could boost overall revenue by 6% and software revenue by 9% in 2026, Singh said. His call for revenue growth is double the consensus forecast on Wall Street and nearly double the call for growth in software revenue.

“We believe IBM will positively surprise the bears on its earnings through the year, driving upside to the stock,” Singh said.

That comes after a decent run in 2025, a year dominated by the conversation around artificial intelligence. Shares rose 35% last year, behind a 39% gain for AI heavyweight Nvidia but ahead of a 20% gain for the Nasdaq.

There already are signs 2026 will be a good year. Despite recent chatter, Oppenheimer’s checks show little to no customer attrition, even as IBM passes along a 6% price hike to customers renewing enterprise license agreements.

And then there is IBM’s consulting division, which has become a significant contributor to revenue. Singh and the Oppenheimer team see little evidence of a pullback on spending, although software is expected to continue to grow more rapidly

Software revenue is expected to achieve sustained, double-digit percentage growth as opposed to “low-single-digits” for IBM’s consulting arm, Oppenheimer said.

Barron’s wrote favorably on IBM for a different reason in December: the company’s burgeoning quantum-computing division. Big Blue was an early entrant in the space, and aims to release a fault-tolerant quantum supercomputer by the end of the decade. That would be an industry first.

https://www.hcltech.com/press-releases/hclsoftware-acquire-jaspersoft-cloud-software-group

Anyone know what this is?

You've all heard the old saying in the world of IT - "Go native or go home"? How does that apply to Follett Aspen?

Several posts have criticized SAS leadership for not embracing Open Source. Successful companies such as Confluent and DataBricks have used Open Source as their foundation, and added their value on top.

But if SAS had taken that approach, its foundation would no longer be SAS data management and analytics — the core of the company’s revenues.

SAS thus faces the Innovator’s Dilemma. It seems to me that SAS leadership is not against the idea of Open Source in principle, but simply sees no way to embrace it without losing revenue.

Is there a way? How would you integrate SAS with Open Source?

Sounds like a leaner version of edX

… prove me wrong!

SAS Viya IS SAS — it has a Compute Server that runs traditional Datastep, PROCs, the Macro facility, etc. This being the case, most SAS customers CAN run their SAS9 code successfully in Viya.

So, why all the Viya hate here? SAS is strongly on the side of making Viya succeed!

To read anything, I have to hit the stop button before the page finishes its task. It's turned to absolute garbage.

Company: Microsoft
Source: Business Insider

They got laid off from the Microsoft country club and dumped into a brutal job market
Summary: Business Insider profiles several former Microsoft employees who say thousands of cuts over the past year shattered their sense of job security. Microsoft said most cuts aimed to streamline operations and reduce management layers.
City: Seattle
State: Washington
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-layoffs-workers-say-job-security-dead-2025-11

My boss has been bullying me. Gave me tasks that can’t be done. They fired me with cause today. No severance.

Am software engineer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-roles-in-focus-on-software-growth

By: Brody Ford
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM CST

International Business Machines Corp. will cut thousands of workers this quarter while it continues to shift the focus of its business to higher-growth software and services.

“We routinely review our workforce through this lens and at times rebalance accordingly,” a company spokesperson said. “In the fourth quarter we are executing an action that will impact a low single-digit percentage of our global workforce.”

IBM shares have climbed this year on investor enthusiasm for the software business, which is fueled by acquired divisions Red Hat and HashiCorp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna has pushed the unit to become IBM’s largest business, especially as the consulting division has been buffeted in recent years by customer concerns about the overall economy.

The company employed about 270,000 workers as of the end of 2024. Some US workers may be affected by the job reductions, but employment in the country is anticipated to remain roughly the same year over year, the spokesperson said.