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:
Design, develop, modernize and manage your portfolio for unique competitive advantage.
Human-centered, experience-driven & iterative approach to building next-generation digital products.
Assessment, coaching and methodologies to accelerate Agile transformation.
Rejuvenate legacy product lines to improve revenue, efficiency and customer delight.
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.
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:
For the ‘Major Contenders’, a service provider must show the following characteristics:
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.
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.
