Here we go again, aquiring another entity.
None of our other acquisitions have done anything for us and even did more harm like the StackIQ acquisition that left us with a spineless engineering executive in training.
Any thoughts on how wasteful, useful, damaging, beneficial this aquisition is to us or just another distraction to lead investors on that we have something for AI to maintain interest and prop up stock price?
Internally we laugh and say "What? But we thought the Marketing COE could do EVERYTHING!"
ELT knows TD is a time-ticking bo-b. So they are making aquisitions to "send a signal" to the market to boost the stock price and give them extra cushion to weather current market conditions. Then hopefully when they all are kicked out or TD files bankruptcy they can find a nice job elsewhere or just go fishing.
We actually tried to build our own earlier believe it or not. Idea was to sell it as service.
Looks like fake work to justify some ELT existence.
This will do more harm because it consumes time and resources that could be better spent integrating with cloud data catalogs which customers are actually using (like AWS Glue).
Come on folks. TD have a super track record with acquisitions. Aster. Aprimo. RainStor. Brilliant. And the Hadoop prof services? What a track record….
I wonder what was the price for buying a company with 12 employees and which has nothing to do with data warehousing or analytics.