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Five Reasons to Modernize Your Identity and Access Management StackDigital has transformed the business landscape by bringing new opportunities and channels to grow. But legacy identity and access technologies not designed for the cloud can limit realizing these opportunities.
Our IAM offerings are designed to unlock growth through a modern cloud-enabled IAM stack. They create new digital channels securely and easily, deliver efficiency through automation, growth from frictionless user experience, and meet corporate compliance and governance needs.
De-risk and modernize IGA quickly and easily with advisory and IP-led assessment and migration solutions. Maintaining continuous compliance with a unified IT governance platform.
Improve security posture and deliver a frictionless user experience. Speed up digital initiatives with faster application onboarding.
Strategize, design, deploy and Manage multi-tenant cloud security solutions for effective cloud security posture.
Reduce threat surface by ensuring the right people have access to sensitive information only for the right amount of time.
Learn how Directory Consolidation helped this leading Retail Pharmacy saved 50% of operational efforts and cost.
Discover how our solution, UNITY, helped this US based large technology company slash app onboarding cost and timelines by 40%.
Proven track record of successfully delivering over 300 identity solutions with deep expertise in legacy and modern IAM platforms.
Faster time to market with IAM modernization frameworks and accelerators to deliver successful outcomes.
Long-term, deep partnerships with best-of-breed IAM platforms and services for all identity-centric needs.
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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.