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Empowering engineers for the development of complex products and systems.
We deliver an end-to-end suite of product lifecycle management (PLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions to support all aspects of product development and systems engineering.
Targeting complex systems and products in highly regulated industries, we help clients manage requirements, quality, compliance, change and configuration disciplines, project planning and tracking. Persistent is a recognized leader who can empower your Digital Engineering transformation.
Targeting complex systems with embedded software, IBM’s ALM tools empower systems engineers and their teams to more easily manage each stage of the software engineering lifecycle.
Collaboration platform and PLM tools for product engineers that delivers sustainable innovation.
Full suite of no-hassle managed services for all aspects of IBM systems engineering and Dassault PLM applications, service desk, and supporting infrastructure.
A full lifecycle of professional services from standard deployment to upgrade and migration services based on our engineering product development and implementation experience with leading vendors.
Seamless integration and enhanced collaboration for continuous engineering workflows across your engineering ecosystem. Enhances team collaboration and engineering data federation and traceability required for industry standard compliancy.
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Deep partnerships with best-of-breed product and system engineering ecosystem leaders including IBM and Dassault.
Engineering experts and tools needed to accelerate integration projects and empower innovation.
Over a decade of experience successfully helping organizations improve the design and development of complex systems, software, and products in highly-regulated industries.
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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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