Xerox is dying. There are layoffs. The XIM managers are not fit to handle the pressure and making wrong decisions. The competitors are ways ahead in cloud based setups and Xerox is still working to have cloud by 2025. Outdated technologies used to run the system. Security compliance not fully fit with the current time. The real turn around is not from junior layoffs. There are instances where the team members were forced to resign and forced to serve full notice stay. The turn around will be from the replacing XIM managers who are responsible for the wrong decisions and still working there.
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Xerox has a cloud offering...
Sure there are some older technologies in place. But, if an app costs you $100s of K (reasonable number) to replace with something s-xy (cloud) with an ROI that is 10 or more years out, should you do it? Not a wise investment of money, unless there are high risks to revenue posed by the older tech.
Better to rationalize the portfolio and dump things that are unnecessary first.
there are application running on VB6.0 , Classic ASP, Oracle 11g or older. OS is still Solaris 5 or Solaris 10 , windows 2003. Forget about going on cloud by 2020 by having 0 datacenter. Office 365 or sharepoint is just a start and that is too late in comparison to others in same business.
The operations folks refused to let go of the mainframe and kludgy access databases and would tell their management who would repeatedly thwart efforts to do anything new- no IT leadership could fight this stupidity driven by the Xerox way of making the simplest business tasks complex. The agenda seemed to be to keep 20 people employed to manually gyrate a common business task 8 hours a day- not sustainable given most competitors figured that out in the 90s. The complacency is beyond tragic- so much talent and money wasted sticking to the way it’s always been done and by IT doing what they were told. Not Andrew’s fault.
Lots of stuff already in cloud (SaaS). Infra going there. New apps are cloud first. O365 and Sharepoint there. Not sure how it could be going faster. Besides, not being fully on cloud is not causing the demise of this company.
Not getting off MF can't be hung on AC. Many things influenced that.
I agree with the original person that posted (@UW4EfBK). Almost all the major US systems from sales to billing are NOT cloud based. These mainframe systems are the most difficult to convert because these are the revenue generating systems for Xerox, not Office365. If 2020 is the current prediction for zero data centers that just means Xerox has outsourced all their mainframes to HCL or some other company. Xerox has been attempting for 25 years to convert the mainframe programs that run Xerox to another platform. There is always some hot shot manager that says they can do it (remember Andrew Campbell?), but to date none have been successful. And let's not forget about the UK systems which are not cloud based either.
Outdated technologies? Office365 the platform being mass migrated to by most enterprises. Cloud based setups? Your wording gives away you haven’t a clue what you are talking about. First, Office365 is cloud. Second, How does 0 data centers by 2020 align with your 2025 factless statement?