Forever playing catch up to the competition ever since it has been disrupted their community seems awfully quiet.
https://community.saas.hpe.com/t5/ArcSight-Questions/qa-p/arcsight-qa
Don't worry folks MF + being the 7th largest pure play software company will only accelerate the dying process.
Why do their stars keep leaving the group? Things that make you go hmmm ...
WFR'd from ArcSight a few months ago after being there since before HP bought us (I thank them, it was the best thing that could have happened to me). All of the points are true - they're cutting US jobs to hire cheaper and far less experienced people in CR, serious loss of revenue over the last 2-3 years and have lost nearly all of their best people. Just as important, ArcSight has lost mindshare in the market to Splunk et al.
MF is the place where software goes to die (COBOL? ZenDesk?). IMHO they aren't the kind of place that will invest heavily and it might not matter because MF isn't going to be a magnet for top talent and ArcSight isn't relevant except in Fed installations. There's no culture of creativity or innovation in HPE or leadership - upper management looks like a bunch of uninspiring MBAs. Chris Hsu comes across as nothing more than a suit from a venture capital firm with a mouth full of marketing speak.
ArcSight was a really good company to work for. It's a shame to see it end this way.
They keep laying off established and component ArcSight QA Engineers, etc personal from all areas and replacing them with Costa Rica employees. After the several layoffs in the last two years, they do not waste anytime to start recruiting in Costa Rica which they will have to train from scratch, which does not mean they will be same as the people they are replacing. They have now hired more Developer engineers in Costa Rica and other's are training Costa Rica members in their job, it does not take a rocket science degree to know the next lay off will be the people that have already trained in Costa Rica. Shameful that the CEO and Executives do not care about leaving a good legacy, they only care of how much bonuses they make while destroying a great company - ArcSight will lose their Market Share while Splunk and others will take over, just like the article says. I really do not know why MicroFocus after paying millions for the merger will want to destroy the companies they are buying. It is beyond me.
It's no secret that theyve been playing catch for a long time. Those that stay, stay not because theyre convinced things will get better; they stay because they dont want to learn something new. Complacent, lazy, and in some cases theyre pretending to be technical.
http://www.barrons.com/articles/splunk-guggenheim-excited-that-competitor-arcsight-may-be-starved-of-funds-1498150133
"This leads us to believe that ArcSight's product development costs–and thus potentially the quality of its products–are likely to decline following the divestiture."
Development spending has been on the decline for a very very long time. To a certain extent, it explains the continued increase in attrition. I mean think about it, why did it take them so long to get rid of the copied MS Office ribbon in ESM? Did they really think that they could s---er customers forever with the "world-class correlation" line through infinity? If they were really interested in pumping money into their products, it would have happened a long time ago. Time is up!
Whats the new line with Investigate? "O-M-G! Vertica is going to crush the competition." Hard to sell that when all your stars moved on to real challenges.