Thread regarding Teradata Corp. layoffs

For the colleague with the nice 5 bulleted lists of questions… if you’re in a role amongst the sales or marketing orgs, you likely can access the Power Bi Possible Dashboard which will give you many of those answers.

To another poster, the ‘diversity hire’ you refer to is in the LinkedIn post photos for London. You just have to click on the “+4” to see them as she isn’t in the initial photos that show first on the LinkedIn feed post. Coincidence? Nah. But don’t tell her that because she’ll instantly demand an update to that photo order.

She required that she be listed second on the executive speakers list after the CEO on the event webpage.

BTW - the "old Teradata" died when NCR acquired the company and brought its unique brand of corporate, bureaucratic sludge to the previously-nimble processes ... remember GOWI? Since then it's all been about process, overhead, inflated titles, perfuming-the-pig, etc instead of listening to customers and actually building/delivering something they would willingly pay for.

LinkedIn had Teradata posting fun photos of low-level customer people, marketing people out for a free junket to exotic cities, and the “CTO” with his Hawaiian shirt pontificating on who knows what he thinks is valuable. No pictures of the diversity hire though. Maybe people outside the Teradata bubble recognize her for what she is. What a waste.

Have to love the corporate shills who go to these events and tell each other “The old Teradata is back.” Expect the usual brown nosers who want to keep their jobs before the November layoffs to go around repeating “The old Teradata is back” for the next few months.

JW hairdresser and makeup assistant preferred our London event , as it has much better shopping. Please don’t be too critical as they are both nearing exec status on the major airlines.

"Teradata was back" hahahahahah...

What business in their right mind would ever consider moving critical data to Teradata?

In cloud you can't just give software away to hit numbers. There's a base cost baked into everything.

Actually, that’s exactly how it works, since Marketing should be working constantly to help sales. These events are just icing. Or isn’t Marketing doing anything the rest of the year?

Marketing has weighed in! I don’t blame Marketing though. They have a tough job marketing this dinosaur.

Good point. So the 2023 results will tell the tale. Looking forward to it.

You do know that that’s not how it works? No one is going to close a deal less than two months after a customer expresses interest.
Customers were really positive about the event. A few people said to me that it felt like Teradata was back.

Can’t wait to see the huge increase in revenue from these amazing events! First week in November should be interesting. If there isn’t a revenue increase of over 10%, with all regions posting gains, the CMO should be the first out the door, followed by the CEO.

To person posting "London looking great" ... nice hype but:

• - How many customers and legitimate prospects are paying to attend?
• - What org-level of the customers/prospects is attending?
• - How much potential revenue is "in play" (assuming this is being treated as a sales-closing event)?
• - What is the ratio of Teradata personnel to customers/prospects?
• - How many of the ELT are attending?

London is looking great.

So how many low-level customer IT employees attended?

That’s good to hear. I assume we’ll see improved financials from it? Real financials…not smoke and mirrors.

Against the odds, it does seem to have gone better than (privately) anticipated.

Don’t be too harsh, JW’s hairstylist and make up assistant had a wonderful time.

Teradata Improbable

The only metric to determine success is revenue. So we’ll need to wait until early November to know if these disappointing events were worth sp-t.

What? 90% Teradata isn’t a success?

As per ELT it was a great success.