Apparently TD does not seem to understand its direct competitors nor how to monitor the way competitors to business. Still, is it hard to believe that leadership is neglecting competition? Although, nothing would surprise me anymore.
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The only company in this business that offers its products for free is Teradata - usually when it has already lost them to a competitor and is trying to buy time ahead of a new product launch that the company doesn’t want to mention because then none of the customers would buy anything new whilst waiting…
Biz Skool case study for commercial su----e = Teradata
I think that’s what the Walmart account manager used to say too and whilst that was a more public departure, it’s a safe bet that your customers are offloading workload without you having any clue they are doing so given your complacency and arrogance.
I haven't seen any competition in my customer base in years. They've tried to run poc's but failed each time when the customer said they wanted to run their production workload as part of the poc. Even my customer base now doesn't care about the competition because they've seen the sales pitch and shown them the door. It's sad really to see them come back through offering to do it for free.
Yes we do - get thee behind us Satan.
Our ‘value proposition’ is now based on the concept that we think we are the cheapest !!!
No one can catch us now in the race to the bottom.
pick one:
https://giphy.com/explore/circling-the-drain
What competition? Gardner says TD is number One! Who hooooooo!
Forget competition, TD does not seem to understand itself.
I thought there’s a competitive marketing team that does monitoring n combating competitors ? Might be wrong hah with all the changes ….