I’m not hearing anything positive. Morale is down, and people don’t understand where the company is going, all the while, jobs are being cut and it seems to be done with out coordination. So, it begs the questions:
Just how far behind is Avaya in cloud?
What is the current status of customer retention/satisfaction?
What is the end game for Alan and Apollo? - Alan hasn’t delivered on much except cost cuts, lay offs, and broken promises to employees, yet he endures.
Absolutely!
Personal Brand has finally stopped attempting to force themselves and their bizarre upside down logic (and way too much information and insanely filtered photos) and self fulfilling babble upon us all. We no longer have to roll our eyes and be embarrassed the next time a partner, client, competitor inquires and point blank asks... WTF?!
AMEN!
Makes me giggle. Or Cry.
But the "All or Bust" strategies since 2017 have destroyed any chance.
I begged for people to see value of UC play...but no. Nortel people told me I was stupid and it's all CC or nothing.
Yup.
It's NOTHING! Nada! N= Nortel, Nothing and Nada!
Avaya is so far behind in UC they can never catch up. Only way is for R&D to stop completely with Zoom, Ring Central, Cisco, Vonage etc. for four or five years, in order for Avaya to catch up to them. Catching up will never, ever happen!
Just how far behind is Avaya in cloud? Infancy at best
What if we lived in a world where all of those so called
ANALYSTS
&
JOURNALISTS
Had to follow real journalistic or securities rules?
Guess What? The investigators are watching and noting that Avaya has hit the replay button on their typical players. CRN. UCToday. Zoo man and the others. And they all will be accountable. I enjoy watching them all act like they are free from scrutiny and accountability. I predict a new round of their pay-to-play road show releases as we enter October. I also predict the SEC is closely watching these predicable releases as well.
While Karma may factor, what about the people that get hurt due to his stupidity and greed? What has he done that demonstrates any metric of success? Not a sarcastic or rhetorical question, if you know of something, post it. Optics are that he got rich, employees are getting laid off…..DPTW is similar to cloud offers…..hyped for a long time, yet both are in infancy.
One positive is the debt Alan will owe Karma, that debt can’t be wiped out with a bankruptcy.
Buy Avaya .. get real
Well only good thing ceo board is making a bank
Real estate
Patents may be the only value
Only positive thing about avaya is they will su-k everything dry
Who will buy Avaya?
Just left Avaya as a long-term Sales Engineer. Been a dead company walking for at least the past 10-yrs. The 2009 Nortel acquisition should have reinvigorated and propelled Avaya, but (not unusual for Avaya) the opportunity was squandered and became yet another competing cash-cow product set and resource and $ distracting liability. Avaya simply didn't have scale and free cash to capitalise. The acquisition of Nortel's data networking portfolio was a ludicrous waste of $ and eventually sold; hardly surprising given Avaya's previous track record of failed attempts to compete in the data networking market. The final Avaya sell-off looks inevitable.
I just don’t see Avaya making it as a major UC provider, ever. They missed the cloud UC opportunity years ago and then missed the biggest event in history to gain market share with cloud contact center, remote meetings and remote work, the Covid pandemic. They would need to start from scratch to build a modern interface. Attempting to migrate existing software won’t be functional and competitive in the marketplace. Avaya premise systems are being replaced daily. My prediction is Avaya will ultimately sell everything off.