Teradata - One can tell they are the primary analytical technology running in data centers for the last 25+ years. Their booth was well positioned, professional but it was clear they are in a defensive position. They stated to me "We are here in helping our clients take advantage of where they want to take their Teradata next". I took away from that "when clients move from on-prem Teradata, they are mostly going to the cloud onto something else". Going to the website after the show, you can play with their online cost estimator for Teradata Vantage and quickly understand why - it is very expensive. It was discovered they also had a layoff before the show AND announced a $250 million stock buyback - this is typical of a company who is profiting from their install base, cannot grow top-line and instead of investing in people and R/D = are maximizing the EBITA and EPS. Sad to see this bellwether sink
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Lol… some of us, even with a tiny bit of finance knowledge have been saying it since the moment the buy back was announced. While the (not so) new (anymore) CFO seems to be the right person for THIS kind of financial management, rather than being a part of a long term solution
I'm suspecting the same author is the type to complain on TripAdvisor about his recent hotel stay. Gotta feel sorry for these types of people if this is their achievement in life
Me thinks the Lady doth protest too much.
Those journalists eh ? Pesky varmints…a bit like Gartner analysts.
Reading the article it was obvious who wrote it. Why they push these pieces as unbiased articles is weird
They have been circling the drain for almost a decade. Sad but true.