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IBM And Teradata — A Tale Of Two Vendors’ Struggle With Disruption

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I said that 2015 would be a tough year for enterprise data and analytics vendors in my spring report, “Brief: Turning Big Data Into Business Insights, 2015.” I thought two things would happen. First, open source would drag on vendors’ revenues as demand for big expensive products declined. Second, the cloud would create revenue headaches. Turns out, I was right. Teradata’s midyear earnings were down 8%, and IBM reported that Q2 revenue was down 12% from a year ago. As further proof, consider the rash of data management vendors running for private equity (e.g. Dell/EMC, Informatica, and TIBCO). It’s been tough times indeed, even though most vendors are keeping their messaging positive to reassure buyers and investors.

Over the past two weeks, I attended Teradata Partners in Anaheim and IBM Insight in Las Vegas — giving me a firsthand look at how two giants of the data and analytics industry are handling disruption. What I saw was a tale of two vendors that couldn’t be any more different:

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IBM And Teradata — A Tale Of Two Vendors’ Struggle With Disruption

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I said that 2015 would be a tough year for enterprise data and analytics vendors in my spring report, “Brief: Turning Big Data Into Business Insights, 2015.” I thought two things would happen. First, open source would drag on vendors’ revenues as demand for big expensive products declined. Second, the cloud would create revenue headaches. Turns out, I was right. Teradata’s midyear earnings were down 8%, and IBM reported that Q2 revenue was down 12% from a year ago. As further proof, consider the rash of data management vendors running for private equity (e.g. Dell/EMC, Informatica, and TIBCO). It’s been tough times indeed, even though most vendors are keeping their messaging positive to reassure buyers and investors.

Over the past two weeks, I attended Teradata Partners in Anaheim and IBM Insight in Las Vegas — giving me a firsthand look at how two giants of the data and analytics industry are handling disruption. What I saw was a tale of two vendors that couldn’t be any more different:

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Hearts and Stars and Prison Riots (User Experience Matters)

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So Twitter decided to make a change, and people have been reacting (and reacting to the reaction): As Jeff Sussna noted, there’s a reason for the reaction: In my old, pre-IT life, I’ve seen that same cavalier attitude toward change cause a real-life riot (for the record, it was a jail riot rather than a […]

A Meta Framework

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It is probably true to say that every book has one major theme running through it, and probably a few sub-themes. Writing the second edition of a book is a great opportunity to revisit its primary topic to see whether it is still relevant or not. I found it really interesting to revisit the book I wrote with Elaine over ten…

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ICD – 10; Medical Knowledge Extraction with Increasing Variables Means Dealing with Billions of Probabilities.

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Note: Bioingine Cognitive Computing Platform employs Hyperbolic Dirac Net, an advanced Bayesian that overcomes acyclic constraint; thereby the resultant statistics method delivers coherent results when dealing with a messy system where both hypothesis and data have become random messing the entropy. By. Dr. Barry Robson Bioingine.com (Ingine, Inc.) The hunger and thirst for more fine […]

Enterprise Architecture Trends 2015

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I’m looking forward to speaking about trends in enterprise architecture at the EA2015 conference this week on 4 November in Copenhagen. Having spoken at this annual conference over the past several years, it has become my annual “state-of-the-union” address to the Danish EA community. This year, I will talk about several trends and issues. The outline of the lecture looks […]

Let’s Talk Value (Who Needs Architects?)

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Value is a term that’s heard often these days, but I wonder how well it’s understood. Too often, it seems, value is taken to mean raw benefit rather than its actual meaning, benefit after cost (i.e. “bang for the buck”). An even better understanding of the concept can be had from Tom Cagley’s “Breaking Down […]