Thread regarding Teradata Corp. layoffs

It's Time for Teradata to look at the Data....

The company has been in decline for a number of years. That should partly be blamed on the product but dig deeper and identify the other constant.

With a last in first out policy, recent hires who have not created the negative impact on existing clients have had very little time to positively impact growth. The issue therefore has to be those long established sales people who have been the one constant through a period of decline. You don't need a data scientist with hours worth of expended effort analysing data to outline the issue.

Incapable Sales people who do not have the intellect firstly identify the risk on existing accounts and secondly outline a plan to mitigate that risk. The only objective has been to grab the low hanging fruits and then move onto the next tree whilst others are left with the managing accounts where it's simply too late strategise a recovery plan. They have made hay whilst the sun has been shining. Others who trying to fix this mess, have been like a staffordshire terrier barking up the wrong tree where there is no bait to be found.

Frankly, it's clear it is now too late to regain any momentum, and like some areas of Norway, Teradata is in a period of darkness as night time is firmly set in.

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@185 Ha - it may have been the smartest thing to do, but TD wanted their Presto staff well away from the company/product, tried to get rid of the team but then created Starburst when they realized they still contractually needed to support it.

So, not so much being late to the party, more like turning up early, getting wasted and waking up with all the detritus around you, hearing everyone's had a great time, got lucky and gone off to a better party.

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Post ID: @1z7+1jy6vpnfb

I work for one of your customers.

Tbh your product is great - where you lost is cloud and cost.

Corporations don't wanna host their own p-o p-o no more...humans are expensive, they rather send precious data to cloud and ride someone else's innovations/release cycles.

The smartest thing teradata could have done is embrace cloud with streamlined federation tools and caching tools (dremio / starburst) and make it ridiculously simple, fast and secure.

But you might be too late to party to stop becoming a buggy whip.

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@at Nothing New there nor will there be..it’s a bit of a sore point and nobody else’s business..definitely not Teradata’s. It’s a bit like New Business..it’s been stubbed for a while hence no growth.

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Hopefully you’ve not stubbed your toe writing this because that would be a disaster and you will need time to recover.

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