Tag: Wandisco

Troubled Wandisco taps Kelly to sort out its woes.

Posted on May 10, 2023 by - News

Big data specialist WANdisco has appointed Stephen Kelly as its interim CEO to sort out the mess caused by fraud allegations.

The Sheffield-based Microsoft partner’s shares were suspended due to allegations of potential fraud by a “senior sales employee”, and co-founder and chief executive David Richards and CFO Erik Miller have stepped down.

WANdisco says Kelly will serve as permanent CEO when the company’s share suspension is over.

Kelly has considerable experience working at start-ups to large organisations in private and public sectors in the USA and Europe.

He has worked at vendor Oracle and was CEO of Chordiant between 2001 and 2005 and MicroFocus between 2006 and 2010.

WANdisco lets a third of its staff go

Posted on May 5, 2023 by - News

Troubled data outfit WANdisco has announced plans to cut around 30 per cent of its global workforce as the scandal-hit firm deals with the fallout of recent fraud allegations.

The data firm said it will undertake a “reorganisation and review process” that will result in significant job cuts across its global operations.

The cloud migration specialist has more than 150 employees spread across several regions worldwide, with offices in Sheffield, Belfast, Newcastle, San Francisco, South Korea, and Australia.

Proposed layoffs will apply to “all areas of the company’s operational and geographic footprint” and the firm said that it is talking to affected staff.

WANdisco offers LiveDisco to partners

Posted on November 9, 2020 by - News

WANdisco has announced the launch of its global LiveDisco Partner Network which it claims will help partners boost growth and open up new revenue opportunities.

The initiative, which is the company’s first channel partner programme, forms part of a new partner-first go-to-market strategy and will provide partners, system integrators, ISVs, and resellers with a slew of new sales, marketing, training, certification and support resources.

Over the last twelve months, WANdisco has shifted its approach direct sales and an OEM focus to become more channel engaged. More than half he vendor’s business is now partner-led and sourced.

IBM deepens WanDisco relationship

Posted on September 7, 2018 by - News

banner_220x220Biggish Blue has deepened its relationship with WanDisco with the pair saying that they will work closely together in the coming months to introduce new solutions, including greater integration with IBM BigSQL and other products.

WanDisco said it would see an increase its OEM royalty of  50 percent, in addition to introducing a guaranteed annual minimum royalty commitment as part of the move.

David Richards, chief executive officer and interim chairman of WanDisco said: “In the first half we began the transition toward predictable, annual recurring cloud revenue and away from large and difficult to forecast on-premise transactions. This is an expected and extremely positive evolution for our business. It opens up a significantly larger addressable market in the cloud and will enable us to generate a more predictable­ recurring revenue base.

“Unlike on-premise deals, these cloud deals are initially smaller in revenue terms but are expected to scale materially over time as is common with cloud deployments.”