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Streamline existing application portfolios through a structured modernization and transformation roadmap that reduces overall operational costs.
As global enterprises evolve, their IT environments grow as new applications are added to support organizational changes, mergers, acquisitions, process changes and new technologies. This leads to application sprawl with increased application management costs, reduced ROI, unnecessary complexity and security concerns. During periods of market uncertainty many enterprise are under significant cost pressures – all which can be challenging if there is a backlog of actions on portfolio rationalization.
With Persistent’s Application Portfolio Rationalization, businesses can streamline their existing application portfolio through a structured modernization and transformation roadmap to reduce overall operational costs and funnel that back into new digital transformation initiatives. Our tools-based, top down approach uses a systematic framework to help reduce IT spend on existing applications by 20-30%.
Persistent Systems ExtenSURE Framework is a systematic top down approach that offers deep insights and recommendations to help enterprises take the right decision for their application portfolio management initiative.
Persistent helped the client streamline their IT portfolio by identifying 2000 applications to be eliminated and 1122 critical upgrades.
Our ready to implement tool helps customers get started quickly to manage their application portfolio and start saving on application management costs instantly.
Our tool-based ExtenSURE Framework enables customers to view their IT assets with a whole new perspective and empowers them to take corrective actions quickly.
We leverage our 30 years of experience of working with cutting edge technologies and leading enterprises to deliver impactful insights that help clients take informed decisions and transform IT.
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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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