PwC has an automated migration from Teradata to Snowflake and Redshift. Other consultants are doing this too. “All our Teradata clients want to get off this expensive database”. The end will come sooner than anyone thinks.
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One only has to look at a Presales leader in the organisation who will openly talk about customers who can't move because their environment is too complex. He honestly thinks this even though one of the key customers in his patch recently celebrated getting off TD and onto databricks.
Every major Integrator has developed tools to move customers off TD and onto SNOW, DB or other platforms. Why? because our customer base wants to move and several of our largest customers are rapidly embracing OTF, Iceberg and building their own lake houses. Why are they doing this? To give themselves a "Plan B" for when TD fades away. Do not for a second think that any customer believes they are "locked in" to TD and don't have options.
Anyone leading a function at TD that believes our customers can't leave needs to be fired immediately for being too stupid to work here.
agree with the sentiment but better to be looking for a new job and then make Teradata pay you to leave and the inevitable next layoff. It is not a great package but better than quitting unless the BS is causing to much stress and harmful to your health
Apathetic Board + Inexperienced CEOs & ELT + Absent CTO + Late To Cloud + Legacy Tech + Woke Focus + Low Employee Morale + Multiple Layoffs + Lukewarm Partners = TDC The Dying Company. If you still work there just quit today and focus on finding a new job.
There are still those amongst us who think our Teradata customers cannot move off us. I sit in meetings where this is said like it's some sort of truth that will save the company.
"The customer cannot move off us as they have too much invested in us."
"It's too hard for them to move off us because of the code"
"There's no way they'll move off us as we are too critical of a system"
It's crazy to think that there are salespeople who believe this talk from the tech's and think it's a green light to push up the price knowing the customer has no other option but to pay it.
The ones who still believe their own cr@p are usually the ones most likely to be affected by further erosions so will say anything to keep the dream alive for their pitful careers
It’s true. I got let go a few years ago. Since then I have had two contracting jobs because of my data analytics experience. Both were large TD customers executing projects to move from Teradata to other platforms. I knew the background, the pros and cons, and the pros for moving off were clear cut. And TD had no answer. None.
EVERY SINGLE TERADATA CUSTOMER wants to move off as soon as they can. They are not winning any new customers. Do the math. They have 24 months before some kind of a fire sale to a PE who will milk the remaining support contracts.
There are a huge number of solutions now making it very easy to move off Teradata and modernise onto a native cloud platform. What used to be a significant amount of work involving lots of people is being automated and can be done in a lot less time. Teradata will continue to tell you it's impossible to move off, but when you survey across the market some of their largest customers have moved, then you can do it too.