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Nagaraja Krovi, Vice President of Enterprise Integration at Persistent, shares his views on the benefits of using APIs to support partner ecosystems and the need for a well-defined partner API strategy.
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Persistent’s Digital Bank Specialist, Rohit Bhosale, highlights how the financial sector is rapidly transforming with the integration of established AI assistants and emerging first-party AI solutions.
March 16, 2023
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In this article, Vikas Gupta, Senior Vice President of CX, Data and Intelligent Automation at Persistent, highlights how the democratization of AI is a key driver of digital transformation and a catalyst for innovation, efficiency, & growth in the enterprise.
March 15, 2023
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Persistent’s Chief Data Scientist, Dattaraj Rao, highlights the real-world applications of Generative AI, its outlook, and ethical and legal implications.
March 15, 2023
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In this interesting interview, Persistent’s Chief Data Scientist, Dattaraj Rao, explains how various industries are leveraging Conversational AI, its outlook, and how Persistent is integrating ChatGPT.
March 9, 2023
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Persistent’s Senior Vice President for Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security, Nitha Puthran, shares her views on the need for organizations to create a level playing field and the importance of upskilling for women to stay relevant with industry trends.
March 8, 2023
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Dattaraj Rao, Chief Data Scientist at Persistent, explains the implications of Generative AI and ways to mitigate the risks it poses.
March 8, 2023
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This interesting story features the journey and mission of Persistent's Founder, Chairman, and Managing Director, Dr. Anand Deshpande, who's empowering aspiring entrepreneurs to create a better tomorrow.
March 2, 2023
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Vijay Iyer, Senior Vice President of Digital Transformation & Consulting Services at Persistent, shares his views on the partnership spectrum in the technology space and how it goes beyond just solving a customer’s technology problem to solving business challenges.
February 26, 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.