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Persistent’s Senior Vice President and Head of Product Business, Nitish Shrivastava, highlights how Generative AI is transforming the way users approach their interactions with apps in the workplace and stresses on the need to go beyond Generative AI alone to achieve true productivity breakthroughs.
May 17, 2023
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Persistent's Vice President of Strategy for Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security, George Symons, highlights the potential vulnerabilities in CI/CD pipelines and the urgent need for a security-first mindset throughout the development process.
May 10, 2023
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Persistent's Senior Vice President for Intelligent Automation, Preetpal Singh, explains how intelligent automation can enhance employee experience (EX) and result in superior customer experience (CX).
May 10, 2023
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Persistent Senior Vice President for Cloud, Infrastructure and Security, Nitha Puthran, shares the best practices for cyber recovery and resilience. She also highlights the need to proactively create a cyber recovery plan that can help organizations minimize downtime and protect their data.
May 9, 2023
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This interesting feature spotlights Sandeep Kalra, Persistent's CEO and Executive Director, who believes in the potential of our team members to drive excellence, and whose strategic foresight has significantly contributed to the company's industry-leading growth.
April 27, 2023
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Persistent’s Senior Vice Present for CX, Data and Intelligent Automation, Vikas Gupta, elaborates on how enterprises can leverage the cloud to accelerate business growth and meet the ever-changing needs of their customers.
April 26, 2023
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Persistent’s Digital Bank Specialist, Rohit Bhosale, discusses the new UK FS & Markets Bill and explains how the introduction of crypto will require a change of priorities for those who don’t want to be left behind.
April 17, 2023
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Persistent’s Chief Data Scientist, Dattaraj Rao, highlights the best approach and benefits of leveraging large language models and knowledge graphs to manage enterprise data effectively.
April 15, 2023
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Persistent’s Chief Data Architect, Purushottam Darshankar, highlights the key areas organizations must consider for cloud data warehouse migration and the steps they must follow as part of their migration plan to maximize returns and scale their business.
April 13, 2023
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.