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Advanced production planning solutions that extend ERP and reduce manufacturing lead-times and costs.
Manufacturers cannot afford to watch competitors increase production effectiveness and reduce costs. Demand changes quickly, product cycles are short, and new products and product variations proliferate quickly. Customers are ever more demanding with the capacity to “shop the world” through ecommerce, requiring producers of all sizes to compete with each other around the world.
It is increasingly critical to have short lead-time and agility – the ability to respond quickly to new or changing demand and deliver well-made products fast. Dassault’s DELMIA ORTEMS Advanced Planning and Scheduling software adds the power of constraint-based, finite-capacity resource optimization, and synchronization of product flows – from raw materials through to finished products. It reduces lead times significantly as a result of better work flow, less waiting, less set-up and idle time on equipment, and the agility that comes from short cycle times.
Persistent is a world class solution provider that can help manufacturers get the most from their manufacturing operations. We offer a unique blend of solutions and services expertise to fully implement and integrate solutions with other systems across the value chain.
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We help manufacturers understand, plan, and then iteratively drive their digital manufacturing journeys.
We offer services expertise to tightly integrate legacy design & engineering, manufacturing, and operational systems with industry leading processes, software and analytics capabilities.
Clients choose us to create an integrated composable technology stack that drives a seamless flow of consistent, correct, and complete data from design through manufacturing operations.
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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.
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