Peristent’s 5-pronged approach to accelerating your product modernization journey
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Mining 3 sources of untapped value in your legacy products
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Re-imagine software products
Leverage our expertise in next-gen MACH software architectures to modernize your software products quickly.
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Rejuvenate mature products
Focus on improving revenue, efficiency and customer delight with our intelligent sustenance engineering framework.
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Re-group with our experts
Schedule a discussion with our modernization and sustenance experts who can help you chart a path forward.
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Next steps
Re-imagine software products
Leverage our expertise in next-gen MACH software architectures to modernize your software products quickly.
Learn More
Rejuvenate mature products
Focus on improving revenue, efficiency and customer delight with our intelligent sustenance engineering framework.
Learn More
Re-group with our experts
Schedule a discussion with our modernization and sustenance experts who can help you chart a path forward.
Contact Us
Adopting the approaches, models, methodologies and recommendations outlined in this product modernization roadmap will certainly accelerate your own product modernization efforts while also reducing your costs and risks.
But for organizations that want to realize the maximum possible benefits of product modernization in the shortest amount of time—with the fewest risks and chances for disruption—there’s one time-tested method to optimize your product modernization journey worth considering: hire a knowledgeable guide.
For more than 30 years, Persistent Systems has been a trusted digital engineering and enterprise modernization partner, helping the world’s leading companies—from startups to the Global Fortune 500—design and deliver new digital experiences, revenue streams and business models.
Persistent’s team of 17,000+ consultants, developers and engineers engages with software development companies at any (or all) of these critical levels in your organization:
The business level
Partnering with the information technology and infrastructure teams to ensure the organization has the correct, future-ready technology stack to meet its growth, agility, scalability and value delivery goals in a cost-effective manner.
Collaborating with development and engineering teams to accelerate product development efforts and extend product lifecycles—without exceeding budgets or compromising on quality.
Working closely with company leadership to understand and achieve organizational goals, attack market opportunities, or deliver new value.
The product level
The technology level
Product Engineering Quotient
Transforming ADM
Persistent then optimizes and accelerates your product modernization journey using our proven five-prongd approach:
Understanding your business, product development and technology goals, and how they influence each other.
Approach 1
/ Faster time-to-market for products
/ Swifter scalability to meet
growing market demand
or volatility
/ Expanding ecosystem of
interrelated products to drive value
and market share
Our goal is to use technology strategically to accomplish business goals, so each dimension is interrated from our perspective.
Business priorities might include:
/ Delivering quality, differentiated
products at scale
/ Leading a product-culture
shift that embraces modernization
/ Rallying around the platformization of
the product for longer life and greater
value delivery
While product and technical priorities may be focused on:
Applying our multi-function organization structure to accelerate development momentum.
In order to compress the journey as much as possible, Persistent relies on a development team structure built around small groups of cross-functional agile parts, or “PODs”.
This unique structure mirrors the independent nature of the microservices architecture itself, ensuring that each development POD can remain laser-focused on its own agile-based objectives while delivering within a larger ecosystem—which in turn builds valuable momentum and speed as the project progresses.
Approach 2
Building on an operating model that balances and maximizes agile, flow and competency.
Persistent development teams operate within an agile framework that is continually refined to:
Approach 3
/ Mitigate risks throughout the development process
/ Cltivate close business collaboration through the cross-functional development PODs
/ Apply the principles of fitness-function development, as outlined above
/ Provide a growing common body of knowledge to accelerate problem solving and share best practice/ s
/ Deliver an Architectural Runway that accelerates development and decreases potential technical debt
Filtering all development activity through a formal govenance model to maximize efficiency and value delivery.
As a product modernization journey proceeds, Persistent embeds governance structures to ensure alignment of all activity towards the desired end result.
Approach 4
Our governance model offers continuous reporting, wayfinding and course-correcting opportunities during the project and after it is completed, further accelerating the modernization journey and maximizing return on investment well after the destination is reached. These include:
In process:
/ Balanced score card metrics based on outcome
aligned service-level agreements (SLAs)
/ Project dashboards
/ Real-time objective and key results (OKRs) tracking
/ Project dashboards
/ Trends review
/ Predictive monitoring through canary alerts
Post-project:
Product Engineering Foundry
This is the focused core of our product engineering expertise and experience, incorporating our mindset, methods, skills, tools, features and partner ecosystem
ExtenSURE is a first-of-its-kind framework that takes a data-driven approach to product transition and transformation, giving software companies the actionable insights they require to extend the life of their legacy products.
ExtenSURE: Persistent’s Intelligent Product Engineering Framework
5) Deploying Persistent’s proven playbook of product modernization frameworks, tools and accelerators.
Drawing on more than three decades of development expertise, Persistent consultants, engineers, and developers have created a portfolio of proprietary tools to deliver the agility and predictability software companies crave.
These proven tools include:
Approach 5
API test automation framework
We leverage market leading tools and specific accelerators for born-digital Vertical SaaS companies to analyze the current set of APIs, building the test suite around them while also integrating them into the DevOps lifecycle.
Our secure, low-code data exchange platform makes it fast and easy to ingest partner data in any format via files and APIs.
Open Data Platform
Cloud Stack Accelerators
Persistent relies on an integrated service delivery framework that leverages AI solutions and re-useable cloud architecture patterns that can be implemented in a wide range of environments across multiple clouds. As a result, our customers experience faster time-to-value and lower total cost of ownership.
We are able to accelerate the building of mobile native React apps by applying our React-native template app for single-page applications, or SPAs
ReactJS SPA Accelerators
Connector Factory
Our proprietary Connection Factory brings together a connectivity framework, pre-built connectivity adapters, a robust test automation framework, and an interoperability certification lab, enabling software vendors to deliver significantly more comprehensive data connectivity support and accelerate time to market.
