Cloud native development with modern, cloud and microservices-based platforms has revolutionized the way software is developed and delivered. But the road to accelerating the digital transformation of your software products is not without obstacles. Many organizations struggle to make a business case for change and correctly understand how key value levers can drive cost savings and innovation.
To help you benchmark your journey and chart the path forward, we are planning the next edition of our leadership discussion series to focus on how software leaders can make the business case for change.
The session will explore the key value levers to drive growth.
Greater Scalability
Faster Deployments
Improved Resilience
Reduce maintenance and management
Less disruptive migrations
Session moderated by Lee Sustar, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
This leadership discussion will be chaired and moderated by Lee Sustar, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research. It will include 8 – 10 software engineering leaders who will have the opportunity to learn from Lee’s research and also share their perspective, experiences and insights.
Benefits from the Discussion
The business case for cloud native
Benchmarking your journey
Charting the path forward
Understand the value levers behind full scale product modernization
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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.