Why is this place so stuck in the past? Why is any out-of-the-box thinking not just discouraged but can affect a person's career adversely? It's been obvious for years that the way things are being done is not working. Still, the management is doing zilch to change anything. On the contrary, they are working hard to preserve the current state exactly as it is. How can we expect things to ever get better in such an environment?
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BK went from Lotus Notes TO MS Office. Probably a few years later than we should have but there's NO WAY we could have used MS Exchange more than a few years before we did.
And the funny thing about Remedy is they finally fixed the issue requiring you to enter your user id in upper case with Remedy 9. But now it doesn't even trim spaces when you search for an INC or CRQ number. Pretty much lipstick on a pig.
BONY dragged us 30 years back in time from Microsoft Office to their beloved 1980s Lotus Notes. Dragged us even further back to BONY’s primitive 1970s heydays of Computer Associates products such as Remedy and BEA. Dragged us back from state of the art IBM distributed eCommerce load balanced applications to manually starting manually built redundant primitive 1990s web sites, most all of them on different levels of everything..
I've seen more changes the last 4 years than I have in the previous 12 years combined. From migrating our apps to APIs used by NEXEN to migrating them to standardized infrastructure with standardized monitoring, standardized deployments, standardized application access, standardized secure server access, standardized email automation etc, etc.
PS, BNY bought Mellon despite what they called it.
I guess we as a company are atleast 10 years behind as I observe most changes that happen here are already being done in most companies related to adopting new technology , process mapping etc.Since we have also come from other companies and landed here I feel I have travelled back in time .
Once we merged with Mellon we reset the clock to 1971.
Depends entirely where you sit within the organization. Product and strategy are on the forefront of their fields and coming up with some amazing advancements (at least as much as is possible within securities services). But if you’re at an ops desk, especially if you aren’t in NYC or London, you probably won’t see this. Ops is always the last to see any new changes and they definitely aren’t the group that is encouraged to innovate. Most companies work that way; keep ops doing the status quo and don’t question anything (to reduce risk of error, keep clients happy) and leave the forward thinking to the strategy and innovation staff that sit in the business lines at HQ
Once we merged with BONY, we reset the clock to 1981.