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Modernize your software products by taking full advantage of cloud-native software architectures and technologies.
Many software companies face challenges driving revenue growth and downward pressure on valuations in a post-pandemic world. They recognize the need to improve software innovation, revamp their product growth strategy and ensure technology infusions. They need to modernize software quickly.
Persistent’s product engineering DNA and a 30-year legacy in software product modernization helps us re-imagine product experiences and modernize software products. We leverage next-generation MACH software architectures and technologies including microservices, API-first, cloud-native and headless. Persistent has invested in product modernization containerization skills for expertise driving Kubernetes migrations.
Re-imagine, redesign and enhance legacy product portfolios, addressing rapidly changing customer expectations.
Enable software portability, agility and automation using Kubernetes-based containers for cloud-native development and product modernization.
Enable ‘Zero-touch deployments’ and automate IT operations for product modernization with site reliability engineering (SRE).
Achieve higher levels of modularity to add new micro frontend architecture functionality seamlessly.
Refactor and migrate traditional monolithic products into nimble, scalable, Kubernetes container-based microservices platforms.
30-year legacy of leadership in software product engineering and digital transformation.
Strong track record with clients as the software engineering partner of choice for the world’s leading software product companies.
Combining the power of design thinking, hackathons, and IP-driven accelerators to engineer next-generation software products.
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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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