Persistent Systems has been named ‘a Star Performer and a Major Contender’ in the Everest Group Software Product Engineering Services Peak Matrix® Assessment 2021 among 31 leading engineering service providers evaluated.
Persistent is a trusted software engineering partner able to drive co-innovation focused on new product development for today’s leading software brands. Our software product engineering services reach across every stage of the software product life cycle to help accelerate software development and software modernization initiatives to transform your digital product experiences.
Persistent stood out for:
Strong focus on building credibility and enhancing market position, backed by consistent investments in acquisitions, labs, and centers of excellence.
A strengthened portfolio of IP assets and solutions.
Market-recognized flexibility and willingness to embrace emerging commercial models.
High quality talent, investments in skill building initiatives, and a low employee turnover rate delivering high productivity.
Proactive demonstration of future-oriented use cases and independently executed proofs of concept to demonstrate capabilities and generate greater value for customers.
Persistent Product Engineering Offerings and Solutions
Persistent’s co-engineering Agile POD model allows customers to scale product engineering capability rapidly to accelerate strategic, creative and development initiatives.
Leveraging cloud-native, DevOps and migration skills to modernize cloud applications, operations and infrastructure to increase agility and reduce costs.
Software modernization has become essential for organizations to stay ahead of their competition while offering the latest in customer experience.
Persistent has identified this need and plays a key role in helping software companies build next-generation software products faster and with high operational efficiency. Backed by 30 years of software engineering experience, this recognition by Everest Group validates the work we have been doing in this space.
Karthik Balasubramanian, Senior Vice President- Software and Hi-Tech
Persistent Systems has maintained its reputation of being an able partner for next-generation software development. The company has a significant focus on serving independent software vendors and has built strong offerings around legacy modernization and cloud native software development…
Akshat Vaid, Vice President, Engineering Services Research at Everest Group
...Over the past few years, it has made significant investments in talent and relative IP assets, as well as in joint infrastructure establishments with technology majors, including AWS, IBM, and Red Hat.
Akshat Vaid, Vice President, Engineering Services Research, Everest Group
Background of Everest Group’s Research
The Software Product Engineering Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2021 focuses on software product engineering services and offers insights into prominent service providers operating in this space.
Everest Group confers the Star Performer title on providers that demonstrate the most improvement YOY on the PEAK Matrix® in terms of the following aspects:
The maximum number of top-quartile performance improvements across all the above parameters
At least one area of top-quartile improvement performance in both market success and capability advancement
For the ‘Major Contenders’, a service provider must show the following characteristics:
Major Contenders comprise both IT-heritage firms as well as pure-play engineering service providers
These players are actively enhancing expertise in cloud engineering, AWL, data & analytics, and agile & DevSecOps through talent enhancement initiatives to develop differentiated offerings and compete with Leaders
They are also focusing on expanding their delivery presence and leveraging partnerships with hyperscalers, technology firms, and academia to strengthen their presence in software product engineering services
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Jiani Zhang
Jiani Zhang is President of the Alliance and Industrial Solution Unit at Persistent Systems. Prior to this role, Jiani was the General Manager of Industrial Sector for Persistent Systems. Jiani has extensive experience in management consulting, marketing, product development and technology management. She also holds expertise in building and growing a business with P&L responsibility and leading teams in business strategy, offering & product development, go-to-market, and sales execution. Prior to Persistent, Jiani has also served as Director of Offering Management for IBM Watson IoT Platform and Head of Offering Strategy for IBM Industrial IoT where she pioneered the creation of the Industrial Analytics/AI IoT solutions.
Jeffrey Hammond
Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving CIO Professionals
Jeffrey helps CIOs and digital leaders succeed by working with them to improve their software delivery capability and by helping them assess the relevance of emerging software technologies. As a 25-plus-year software industry veteran, he’s helped clients improve their development shop culture, apply Agile and continuous delivery best practices, and build successful developer ecosystems. Jeffrey’s been a developer; managed development teams; built award-winning commercial development tools; and, over the past decade, has helped Forrester clients navigate mobile, cloud, IoT, DevOps, and low-code technologies and tools.
Previous Work Experience
Jeffrey has been with Forrester since 2006. Prior to joining Forrester, Jeffrey worked at IBM, Rational Software, and was part of Accenture’s Advanced Systems Group.
Education
Jeffrey holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.