Have there been any, other than minor updates? And don't say "Vantage" since that was just a marketing name for the 19th version of the on-prem Teradata Database. Go back 10 years? There is ZERO INNOVATION. We are milking a slowly dying cash cow, surviving by migrating a few customers to cloud, with no new vision or new products. The CPO should be fired, along with the part-time CTO who has been there for 20 years with nothing to show for his time. They blame sales and tell us to "sell what is on the truck" while no new products are loaded on the truck. But hey, let's grow ARR by 3%. More layoffs are coming in August. #Cloud-First!
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Is The Truck painted Orange? Probably a 1998 Ford.
HA tells the field to "sell what's on the truck" because her org never delivers any new products that are on the "roadmap" - it is a way of deflecting and she is really good at it. She even instructs her team to keep the roadmaps loose so she can't be tied to delivery dates. She is the best political player I've ever seen and SM buys all the BS she spews. She convinced SM that Marketing and Sales are the problem, not Development. You have to be smart to do that. She is the reason they canned M.e. who was a decent CMO and now we are left with JW. So that is what "The Truck" is...
What is the truck?
Yes - how much ARR growth will we get if we sell The Truck? But that is on-prem since The Truck will fall out of the cloud....#SellTheTruck
The Truck
Columnar :-) OP should have clearly stated new products that actually worked :-) NONE
Kylo
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How they kept SB as part-time CTO after all his Burning Man and other questionable comments and behavior during the #MeToo period is beyond belief. Being so late to embrace cloud, plus the fiasco with canning the Graph and ML engines under his watch should have been enough to let him go. It's not like we've been leading the market with our innovation and new product releases.
SB, the zen part-time CTO, was past his use-by date 15 years ago. But as long as the big guys can keep milking the cash cow, all is well.
Still no replies with any innovative new products in the past 5 years? Why would an investor in the tech sector touch this stock?
#TDC-TheDyingCompany, perfect stock symbol for this legacy laggard brand with terrible executive leadership
Marketing wouldn’t even try to spin
This because they can’t market innovation that doesn’t exist. No products in last few years so they have had to be really creative with what they talk about. Inventing news is not easy. Don’t knock marketing they have spun gold out of sh@t for years. How HA still has a job is beyond comprehension.
Looks like there are no replies because there is no new products - even Marketing can't spin this
I'm thinking.......wait, wasn't there an upgrade to QueryGrid two years ago? And we released the ML Engine, right. Of wait, we ki---d the ML Engine. I'll check HA's roadmap slide (that has no dates) and get back to you