It’s hard to imagine a multi-billion dollar company putting on a worse event for “C-Level Executives”. Small uncomfortable chairs. Room with poor temperature control. No tables. No pens/paper. No SWAG. Lunch was buffet and not served. Any executive would be unimpressed at the least and insulted at the worst.
Total amateur hour
My assumption: the Possible tour is really just a PR tour for our execs themselves, and little more… right? Likely signals the approaching sell off of this company, while only serving to be a PR trip for our leadership in hopes that they can hopefully jump to other jobs at our customers. It’s not even an executive level event now, because they dropped the audience down to directors months ago in order to fill seats.
JW is a joke of a CMO so not surprised that her world tour is a joke. Those that have attended have said it is ‘rinse and repeat’ the same garbage scripts the Csuite keeps regurgitating. She is all about her own publicity and winning, I mean buying “awards” for herself.
Given the current state of Teradata, it all fits.
What do you expect from a diversity hire in WAY over her head?
LOL - "the amount of hand holding that we do, the amount of customization we are willing to do" just proves how hard our stuff is to make work. Competitors are 10X more easy to use. Wake up, complexity is not a strength
Remember, for years Teradata was Marketed as a solution that required fewer DBA’s than IBM while delivering fast query returns. Teradata had a robust Customer Service division with Support Engineers that knew the customer’s workload and needs. It now looks it has turned 180 degrees.
"...And they treat their customers the same way"
Da fuq? Not sure how you come to this deduction, but the level of support that we provide, the amount of hand holding that we do, the amount of customization we are willing to do, the amount of white glove support we provide - I don't know how you can possibly say we don't care about our customers, especially when comparing to modern software companies! Of course, you could say that the self service and usability capabilities of other products are much greater, but the level of functionality and tunability is also monumentally greater with Teradata. But this is a case of wanting your cake, and wanting to eat it too: every time engineering tries to simplify something, there is a push - often from a single customer - to keep some legacy function or capability. So we keep caring about our customers, and attempting to minimize any hard requirement for modernization of their existing workloads, at the expense of extreme investment in engineering, support, and proserve.
Teradata is irrelevant and they treat their customers the same way. No surprise here.
JW should be fired. Cancelling Universe when all competitors are having massive in-person conferences for this Possible joke. I was embarrassed. Snowflake had 10,000 attend and their event was first class. Sign of a sinking ship with a lost CMO.
Multibillion is an exaggeration. Teradata market cap is barely 3b. It's been like this for years, if not decades, and will only get worse.