Billy Ruh probably was asleep at the wheel for this one. He's probably going to deny it's existence.
On another note props to uptake for the no holds bar competition to get customers, consumers are going to get a good deal on the price of these products.
http://go.uptake.com/Safe-Passage.html
Ganesh is giving away Uptake's product because they can't get anyone to buy it..it's pretty much GE Digital's sloppy seconds with their ex-Digital leadership clownfest.
@UAmM1RI-1rvh – Agree with you 100%.
Code was developed in US, sent to abroad for a quarter or two, and the US teams were redeployed or let go. Code returns from abroad and needs to be reworked and relearned by new teams. What a waste of time, energy, and human capital! Instead of building up a strong bench of creative solution developers who really understand the base technology and can design, develop, and ship real solutions with GE tech, the powers that were, cheated and went for the lower cost short term option. But they still expended a ton of money with the churn.
Well, the chickens have come home to roost and we're all paying the price now. All except BR. He'll have a package when and if GE can unload Digital to some poor, chump investor.
@UAmM1RI-1zmu Two parts here - first being that GED thought engaging an army of contractors is a prudent decision to make when building a long-term software platform and supplemented their teams with the same contractors for years to get around hiring processes. Those contractors have created an insane mess with the codebases and forces full-timers to constantly be in a state of fixing or rewriting. Second part is that the company has pivoted its strategy so many times that the developers never actually have a chance to deliver anything - between constant rework due to contractors and constant scope changes from management, it's not hard to picture why nothing ever was released.
The worst part of it is that management continues to look at this strategy is the one to keep using going forward. Can't teach old dogs new tricks, sadly.
Leadership is not the only problem. Everyone always wants to blame the leaders. While they should take responsibility for GE Digital’s failures, I question the developer’s talent and their ability to deliver. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile. However, GE Digital produced so little. We need to cut our losses and get rid of the dead weight.
Only conclusion is that Uptake is not the buyer. Good news. I am just praying for the buyer to bring a new leadership team that could fix the mess. Ganesh is not the man. Bill Ruin is not the man since 2016. We just need someone with financial discipline and basic technology knowledge. There is enough technology talent inside. But poor business accumen. Someone that can stop this crazy organization setting, stop throwing money out of the window in dead end developements, bring some smart channel people and not the cheer leaders we currently have, create a solid strategy instead of “I can do it all, but just for 3 verticals” and finally, give back control to business people that know how to run a business and not to Enrgineers, CAS or XLP amateurs. There was no management at all, let’s face it. New owner must us common sense, rest is secondary.
Uptake is a C3 wannabe, but won’t ever come close. It is dead money for investors.