Big announcements with absolutely no clue from the top on how to execute them. And more promises of clear communication but no answers. Meanwhile sales is frozen waiting for answers and Q3 slipping away.
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Hope some dumb a– buys it.
I'd rather be selling hardware than software.
Aternity is trying to make itself into some type of business tool but it’s not because data is different and business analyst not going to want to use it. Not sure if sales people or PM understands this but if push comes to shove, a ton of PS and projects will need to be sold to do the BI integration and no one in PS is a BizAnalyst or statistician.
Aternity will only be a tech tool that tells admins something is slow (whoopty doo) and point fingers at a SaaS vendor or to more obvious things like CPU, disk or memory - big deal, the admin and user knows this already and not worth renewing.
Aternity will fail to establish positive ARR with YOY TCV Dropping once the initial hyped sales phase is over.
Be excited and Good luck selling shelfware
I think Aternity is a bunch of bull. If my Outlook is running slow, it is supposed to be able to tell me (the Support person) where the bottleneck is? Based on what? The data collected by the agent? How does it collect anything outside the OS that’s accurate? Seems like rainbows and unicorns.
They do moderate this site heavily. Admins remove foul language, personal insults and similar malicious content. They also nuke posts containing names and other identifiers.
But I doubt that this site can be bullied that easily, judging by the number of different forums here (hundreds, most of them more active then ours). Sure, anyone can monitor this (and any other) site and any post can be reported via mail, but they don’t have the legal ground to ask this unless the content is illegal or it violates the site rules, so I think it’s safe to say that if your post is kosher it won’t get nuked.
Aternity is still hype. Too many agents on devices and security is more important and they’ll take precedent. Aternity is a still nice to have there’s a ton of ways to measure productivity without timing browser refreshes and actions. How’s recurring revenue for Aternity? Don’t care about total contract value. Is Aternity renewal 100%? Seems like you have a lot more to go
I have it on good authority that Xirrus were pretty much almost insolvent right when we bought them, they weren't going to be able to make their next pay run. Taken straight from one of the long standing Xirrus folk (RIP). Anyway - still no quotas.. no guidance as to whether our lost Aternity pipeline will be offset by lower quotas... Or not. Time to pull the ripcord I think.
Forget Xirrus. $ rests with Aternity. Why do u think the company is hauling @ss on making sure it’s perdect?
Looking at the number of views, it seems the entire company is subscribed to this forum, and checking regularly. Hi everyone!
Mid-way into quarter. Dow swinging violently. Cisco down to ~$45. I hope we are not affected too much by the China business. A mild recession won't be good for anyone. I still can't believe Xirrus was sold for ~$7m (I just read on this forum, I don't claim to know myself). That's less than their salary budget. Hope Aternity brings in some dough too.
“Who deleted the TB post? Is someone manually moderating this?”
The claim is the site is removing certain posts. The theory is TB and the spineless leadership is making requests not the grounds of defamation and probably for legal and “business” reasons.
I’m convinced these posts are being systematically removed to show or justify why a potential hostile takeover is suitable or to gain some type of sympathy from a potential buyer - in other words, “feel sorry for us, our own people don’t like us and we did everything right ... Waaah waaaah!!”
Our leadership team are a bunch of cry babies
(I wonder if this post will get deleted)
Who deleted the TB post? Is someone manually moderating this?
Shio is already at the bottom of the ocean.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/blind-anonymous-app-data-exposure/
"blind was all over the news few months ago..."
Seriously, does "the team" think this foolishness will prolong their reign of inertia?
That phony "TB" post didn't last long.
blind was all over the news few months ago because of the data breaches they had. not very trustworthy if you ask me, specially considering they ask you for your corporate e-mail address upon sign up.
The OP asked about quotas. Does sales really not have them yet?
let's move to a different company.
Let’s move to blind app
"We have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders..."
What about your fiduciary responsibility to in some way manage the business?
The fact TheTeam is trolling this site shows how much time they have. I find it hard to believe how these guys don’t realize they are the leaders of yesterday. The canned response is a reflection of this. No one should have these clowns run any modern company - they should just sell used cars, the simple sales process, simple outcomes and simple deal structure suits their skill sets.
"We have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders to protect the reputation of this company and leadership from unsubstantiated rumors and unfair personal attacks. "
What a canned response, everyone has a fiduciary responsibility like your kids, your family and yourself. I guess this doesn't matter even though companies a driven by regular folks that you view as tools and replaceable parts.
We have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders to protect the reputation of this company and leadership from unsubstantiated rumors and unfair personal attacks.
Riverbed would be a different story if the incumbent brain trust could get products out the door with the same nimbleness as they delete posts that offend their delicate egos.
Way to focus, guys.
Website rules, names and personal insults are not allowed here. They have some more rules, can check the content rules at the page bottom as well as this link: https://www.thelayoff.com/h/postdeletions
Indeed a post was removed .. it’s sad to see how our leaders needing delete this post. It was a good post that exposed randomly firing people and grouping of people into haves and have nots are a form of personal attacks.
Shameful ... seriously shameful ..
It looks like another post was deleted ... geez our leaders are petty and really has vanity issues.
Well said. It's hard to understand the random layoff decisions coupled with how people were assigned to each side of the fence and having a farce SKO inviting many people who would not survive to see even 2 more months here. Just screams incompetence.
AGREED- Personal attacks are completely uncalled for. What we need is execution and a plan vs. a bunch of too early announcements.
Personal attacks are uncalled for. We have been working very hard for over a year now. A couple of us even uprooted our families and moved here from another country to take on this job. It’s now time to move on and ReThink what’s Possible for the future of our company.
Quota (in millions):
“The number of slim fast drinks PM has in a day”
X
The number of spray cans needed to paint AE into a shade of human
+
The amount of “a null” bleach cream (in milligrams) to make SI into AE
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The number of minutes LS spends in the office in a year (up to 5 decimals)
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The number of times MS deceased gerbil runs on the wheel
There you go
“We are now seeking other means to raise the valuation.”
Try Glassdoor
"Care to clarify what this thread is all about?" - PM
Complete and total lack of management, planning, and overall leadership going into this kind of major restructure. I've survived this kind of thing before, and I must say, at that previous company it was handled quickly, professionally, and was obviously well thought out and planned to the highest degree of detail. This is the opposite of that.
We had the thread removed as it was not eliciting the response we had hoped for. We are now seeking other means to raise the valuation.
No account list, start using the phone book. Who is my sales leader?
Care to clarify what this thread is all about?
“What happened to that “we beg you” thread?”
Wow, I didn’t even notice this. I wonder why it got yanked? TheTeam, you care to respond?
What happened to that “we beg you” thread? I guess the 30 negative score and the myriad of negative responses made PM, AE and the rest of the lame leaders beg this site to take it off.
You can’t expect the decaying cavemen leadership to move this quickly - they need to nap time, and adult diapers changed before they can make their bad decisions.