AI is everywhere. For Data Orchestration and Analytics, it’ becomes a pivotal piece of technology. No way to escape.
Hard to imagine TDC competing successfully against monster AI companies. Do not blame SM, HA, JW….or DEI. It’s tougherthan that ! The matter of fact is : TDC former CTO missed two huge tech waves :cloud and AI !
Arriving too late at a gorgeous party is always tricky. Failure is the common option : being back home, sad, bitter and alone.. Except when you’re Brad Pitt : a lot of charm, a captive customer base,. deep pockets. Indeed TDC is no longer Pittish. So “too late, too bad !”
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CTO missed 3 waves. Appliances, Cloud, and AI. I guess it took 3 strikes to get him out
Say what you will about OR, he saw the data science/ AI wave coming thanks to his time at eBay and tried to position TD to take advantage of the wave when it came. Unfortunately that was too bold and visionary for TD's BoD (VL's words) so they turfed him for a vision less yes man like SM.
To Late Too Bad - WHAT? SM has been at TDC for 4 years....what we missed was his Vision, Strategy and Leadership that was non existent. Besides, we had a Customer base that relied on one thing. TDC providing value to their greatest asset = DATA! TDC squandered Time and Money on lousy aquisitions, hiring friends, failed value intiatives, mothballed sticky application solutions and a terrible customer experience. The only thing we do is Data and the only thing customers keep collecting is data - it was a no brainer with our history and reputation. No one has monitized AI yet, Hadoop was a failure, Cloud platforms will become hybrid ecosystems but Data will keep being the greatest asset. Instead TDC had Aster( is that windows 7?), Stemma(never sold, should of partnered with better offerings) and the 14 other aquisitions that never paid off. SO we missed AI, Cloud - no we missed leveraging our strengths, customers and a solid growth and GTM strategy
No, SM, HA, and JW are all overpaid mo--ns.