2025 is the tenth year of the Deutsche Bank outsource deal. What an amazing success its been LOL.
Will DXC get another bite of the cherry or are Deutsche ready to boldly go where they should have gone before ?
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Well supposedly Deutsche have re engineered everything with help from Oracle, Amazon etc .... in reality they probably still have a half dead IT workforce they can't get rid of because it would cost too much and somehow some of them have convinced the management that only they know how things work - certainly the case of the London staff in 2015+. Management were so weak and foolish they believed that IT couldn't be done by anyone with experience and commitment
@fz+1jjp9z8s9 DXC is effectively poundland in this scenario for companies that need to keep the lights going but dont want to invest a larger sum than they need to. Just throw in some obfuscated stipulations in the contract around SLA etc like BAE do and the yes men will just agree to it so they can get their success metrics and feck off elsewhere
@h3+1jjp9z8s9 Agree. You leave your never to be touched where it is. You buy new from somewhere else. The clients get a warm feeling from having a contract that says someone is checking it's still working. But those people have forgotten how or long since given up checking, and lost their skillset because they aren't using it. So wouldn't be able to resuscitate it anyway. They just have to get the migration to new done before DXC staff reach 55+ and decide to take their pensions. Or the systems fail and they say oh well I quit anyway.
Deutsche will do same as most other DXC clients - renew the legacy keep-the-lights-on parts and take the rest (if there is any "rest") away and give to another supplier
No need to risk migrating legacy end-of-life support
Why do clients keep DXC? It doesn't bring any economy of scale. It doesn't bring the ability to flex your workforce quickly. It doesn't bring an unparalleled level of expertise. It doesn't have any best in class processes or systems. It just runs your legacy systems with an ever dwindling and disillusioned workforce - who get paid the same money whatever they do or don't do. Who some of this stuff keeps going I really don't know. Would you be mad to switch supplier or mad not to when it's up for renewal?