what are your thoughts on shanon as the new AI leader compared to savnay? do you think she has a vision to turn it into a core flagship offering or will it remain optional feature with limited adoption?
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She just gave an interview discussing how OpenText is using AI agents to turn "scarce skills and fragmented processes into scalable value."
https://adastracorp.com/podcast/the-technology-is-good-enough-says-shannon-bell-cio-opentext/
@1b3 yes but I get their sentiment.
If we value a general use option so much so in Career week - OT is just pulling a usual OT in being late to the market offering something marginally useful at best instead.
In house Agentic AI for now (if its not integrated with SNOW) won't actually help us much either. Data protections/ToS wont allow much safe but meaningful development.
At least someone eventually saw what I could do with MyAviator; did have a little fun breaking that until (I hope) someone used my stuff and improved its restrictions.
Claude co-work could probably do it better anyway
@hz Aviators don't compete with Co-Pilot at least as development purposes. Let alone aviators are targeted toward what we sell not general use.
Well we are told to use co-pilot instead of aviator, so...
@d0 earlier in my career I sold cars at a Saturn dealer. GM use to sell minivans and back in 2005 they sold all their cars at “employee” pricing. Cars sold out fast except the minivans. Then they offered 5% off the employee price, then 10% off and still we could not sell off the vans. Then we tried to sell the them in bulk to rental car fleets and they did not want them. The GM executives were shocked… they thought these were good competitive minivans when everyone was telling them they su-k. In 2006 GM stopped producing minivans.
Our AI is like a 2005 GM minivan. Now Ayman and the new management will try to aggressively sell AI and will soon realize companies don’t want to buy it. And just like GM minivans, our AI will go away and competitors will pick up what ever pieces are left.
The new leaders need to be enlightened and the old leaders need to be shown the door.
@c7 literally
Most of the non-technical AI courses DIDNT EVEN HAVE OUR PRODUCTS.
If we cant get ourselves to use it - no one better be buying.
It’s going to take being acquired by a big tech company for any of our AI tools to be enhanced to get any traction in the market. Titanium X and Aviators have no AI credibility even if some aspect work well.
The only chance for AI and ECM to get traction again is to be with another company and remove the “OpenText” name.
To see how this will play out see how Broadcom acquired Computer Associates in July 2018 and read about how they rebranded Unicenter TNG. CA’s Unicenter is our Titanium X”. Mark had the same plan all along. After the sale to Broadcom, they essentially "mined" the valuable code from TNG to fuel their modern AI-driven platforms, while leaving the iconic (and flashy) 1990s user interface in the history books. Sound familiar?
Broadcom’s marketing of the CA Technologies acquisition was less about "selling a new brand" and more about "securing the foundation." They moved away from the flashy, consumer-style marketing of the 1990s (like the Unicenter TNG 3D videos) and pivoted toward a high-stakes, "mission-critical" corporate narrative. Thus finally having the product get traction.
The transformation of Computer Associates (CA) into Broadcom is one of the most significant case studies in corporate software history. It wasn't just a rebranding; it was a total overhaul of how enterprise software is sold and maintained. Mark set up OpenText to be in the same scenario as CA. All the CA ELT left extremely rich while the company was gutted.
Aviator is an awful AI tool
As long as executives still have jobs, then the promise of AI is false.