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Persistent’s conversational platform solutions automate customer engagement with chatbots that provide real-time, personalized communication across multiple languages and channels. The solutions use natural-language processing and machine learning techniques to identify the intent of end-user queries and offer relevant responses.
The chatbots securely connect with and keep learning from the enterprise knowledge base, essentially giving end-users access to a subject matter expert around the clock. Whether it is customer service or lead generation, Persistent Systems can help you create self-learning chatbots that adeptly handle a high volume of queries while your team focuses on work that matters.
Persistent’s machine learing algorithms reduce diagnosis time by 70%, accelerating LungLife’s efforts to greatly reduce the impact of the disease.
Persistent Systems helps RenalytixAI bring life-saving kidney diagnostic solutions to market faster.
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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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