A major round of RA's has hit WH in Ann Arbor. My entire team was wiped out. More to follow....
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The WH acquisitions shared a theme: assemble data-rich companies whose data assets could be used to train Watson AI. Attention to core clients and markets languished, legacy entrepreneurial management was replaced by ignorant Blue-blooded autocrats, non-AI offering investment virtually halted, and innovation withered. When WH AI didn't deliver or perform it was too late to salvage the core business and the slashing began.
Rumor is that SAS is the leading candidate to purchase what's left of WH
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So Watson is definitely a failure, yet IBM is embedding Watson in every single product the company has... you know exactly where this is going... it will be a slow death but it will surely end up ki----g IBM!
Was Truven hit? What roles were affected?
"...Watson had to be eliminated because it accurately diagnosed IBM as a cancer. "
Well mates, actually IBM was/is the victim/host of the cancer. IBM and the 360 put this enterprise on the map.
The cancers are things like :
- Free Open Source Software :
- Sets the precedent that a programmer's work should be free
- Allows everyone and their brother to invent a language or other often half finished junk that becomes the next "big thing" fad...
- Linux
- Hobbyist OS that is growing and eating everything
- No better than any other operating system but gets over same way Unix did, it's "Free" (But Torvalds gets his $1.5M a year out of it, et. al. (RedHat is fixing to eat IBM, right? Sounds like a cancer...)
- Agile
- The Anti-Engineering Political philosophy of Software Project Management
- Anything with "Manifesto is a political philosophy, not an engineering principle
- Add your own...
Sorry to hear about folks who were RA’d. I’m a current employee who didn’t even know about it until today when our director mentioned it. What areas were impacted, or was it a general RA among all groups?
- Like "Watson video". What a joke.
it's like they do with Cloud... just put products under a brand to claim increase in rev
@1lcx I predicted more than five years ago that a sure sign that Watson was a commercial failure would be "brand extension": applying the Watson name to any and all analytics however remotely related in order to be able to claim revenue growth.
Sure enough.
Watson had to be eliminated because it accurately diagnosed IBM as a cancer.
Watson Health is not a thing. The "Watson" computer is a thing. Watson Health is comprised of (what used to be) several successful healthcare and social services data analytic companies bought by IBM. So there is a HUGE difference between the two.
WH is a thing and way more than the Watson cancer thing that went wrong. We came on as a successful healthcare benefits analytic company. We do good work that has pretty much been ignored and then destroyed by IBM. Our business is still hanging on because of our reputation but it's been so ignored and reduced I'm not sure how much longer we can keep customers with so few resources to service them.
How is WH a thing? I thought they had mass layoff a year or two ago after they mis diagnosed and also doctors said it didn’t give them any benefit?
Watson is a waste... a fast computer in search of a problem.
Truven was the largest acquisition of WH. At the time in 2016, it was growing and making money. It may have been more than 50% of WH, but we never knew. Once it was assimilated into the Borg, WH never grew outside of acquisitions and never made money.
Weather next then GBS. Undo GR's entire legacy.
Watson Health is all marketing with very little substance. Impossible to get value from it. It was doomed to fail.
Any word on which groups got hit?
Farewell and adieu WH The writing is on the wall
How did a once thriving healthcare data analytics company become a shell of its former self? Oh, wait...I know. It got bought out by a big company who, within a very short period of time, dismantled it piece by piece, bit by bit until there was little left.
Let go today in Watson health was acquired by ibm worked for them about 7 years
Why? Doesn’t it cure cancer?
Streamlining for the purchase IBM laid off 5 times before the Lenovo sale
I thought IBM was selling WH, whatever happened to that?