Does anyone know where this is being successfully used, in a meaningful way?
Feels like it's been talked about for years but I don't know of any significant use of it.
Is it a real thing being used well or just slideware?
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Whoever said "On-premise infrastructure is obsolete " is mor on, computers even cloud have to exist somewhere!
You said it better than me brother IBM to really BMC patrol no system management company wants this product even HP openview doesn't want it. On-premise infrastructure is obsolete business just ask cmit out of dallas, they helped small businesses back up their data or their infrastructure and later implemented cybersecurity, but they can't even get small businesses to want their infrastructure services, and they never modernized their service, dxc has the same problem but hidden behind larger accounts, there's no digital marketing business, there's no artificial intelligence machine learning business, the people working in it, we're never billable, there's effectively no cloud business, and Mikey one complain that the margins we're too small for the projects were too short or the size of the projects were too small, but look even more cool is now investing in biotechnology dxc could be investing in the future, it's just a business service supporting dying technology there's no future here I cannot believe somebody Young is looking at a job here, and look at the Indians in india, they don't even want to work here, I don't understand why dxc doesn't have 100,000 Indians in India working, without a strong offshore low-cost base, DXC has nothing to offer
You said it better than I did brother you must have been a good student in high school
Platform DXC/X is an obsolete service delivery concept, clients are not interested in their data being managed by a service provider outside their own ecosystem - with cloud and SaaS they expect service providers to function within their own ecosystem so they have control and the "source of truth" for all data.
PDXC/PX does exist beyond slideware but cannot be used for a lot of DXC offerings nor is it fit for purpose for secure environments, its only useful for a very immature client who has no ITSM or little tools of their own and there are very few of these still around today.
It is also very immature in even integrating with clients ecosystems, and cloud environments, further restricting its use as a bit part player looking after legacy environments with integration back to the main future facing tools and processes.
A 1990's concept trying to be relevant in the 2020's
I spoke with these platform managers, I don't know if they came from EDS or CSC but all of them were Services delivery without any software experience, that product that endeavor needed a software leader or to just sell it off, I spoke with other systems management devops software companies and no one wanted to buy it. Dxc it's just not a software company, and the managers are just not software developers, they are delivery managers service delivery managers at best. As we move more and more to the cloud, the value of platform diminishes. Look at cmit they also didn't do handle the transition from on-premise to the cloud although they have expanded out there security offering their infrastructure business is waning. All these people have digital marketing businesses and dxc is just not into anything new it's just a services company for Old on-premise technology at best. I don't know how these people had jobs in the data science or data analytics or artificial intelligence group, they didn't generate any revenue I can't tell you how many stories I heard about people working for 14 years and not available for nine. Boondoggles all the way all over it's a good thing Mackenzie was in there to just fire all these people
Its worse than that. Slideware would have only cost a few thousand to produce. In actual fact, millions have been spent developing PDXC. As the concept (at least when I was still at DXC) was nearly complete customer lock-in to the PDXC ecosystem, no customer with a brain cell would adopt it...unless they wanted to be tied to DXC forever.