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6 things you can do with agile right now
Vikas Gupta, Senior Vice President, Sales Operations at Persistent shares tips to boost software development team's efficiency with agile processes.
May 10, 2022
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Vikas Gupta, Senior Vice President, Sales Operations at Persistent shares tips to boost software development team's efficiency with agile processes.
May 10, 2022
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Read this ET CIO article with inputs from Dattaraj Rao, Chief Data Scientist, Persistent for smart tips on due diligence in creating AI MVPs & planning for extreme scenarios.
May 9, 2022
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Sameer Bendre, Chief People Officer, talks about how Persistent continues to offer its employees flexibility to choose their place of work. Read more in this insightful article.
March 31, 2022
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Dattaraj Rao, Chief Data Scientist highlights how Persistent leverages valuable insights derived from unstructured data to understand customer behavior and demand patterns in this interesting article.
March 28, 2022
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Mukul Tripathi and Parimal Muli, from the Life Sciences & Healthcare group at Persistent, share how Intelligent Automation can enable Healthcare organizations to readjust their strategy to ensure a better patient experience.
March 3, 2022
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Vikas Gupta, Senior Vice President, Sales Operations at Persistent explains 5 success metrics for Agile transformation in this insightful article.
March 2, 2022
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Business Standard features Persistent in this exclusive story on the closure of the acquisition of Data Glove.
March 1, 2022
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Karthik Balasubramanian, SVP for ISV and Emerging Verticals at Persistent, talks about how sustained engineering is a balancing act key to maintaining customer satisfaction and minimizing churn.
February 20, 2022
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Watch Persistent's CEO, Sandeep Kalra, on CNBC-TV18 as he recaps yet another strong quarter and discusses our growth plans to become a billion-dollar company in the next few years.
February 18, 2022
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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.