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Persistent aims to cross $1 billion in revenue, may raise dividends
The company expects to sustain margin amid early signs of steady attrition. In addition, investors may expect a higher dividend payout for FY23 as the company has no immediate capital expenditure (capex) plan after adding fresh capacity in FY22.

Persistent Systems, IBM expand their 20-year collaboration again
Persistent Systems is expanding further its collaboration with IBM, less than a month after the Pune-based IT firm joined the partner ecosystem of the American company.

Persistent Systems deepens ties with IBM by joining its partner ecosystem
Persistent Systems has nearly a decade of experience as a key development, support and deployment partner across the IBM Automation portfolio.

Persistent Systems targets $1 billion in revenues
Sandeep Kalra, who has just taken over as the CEO, has since May 2019 been running the company's key technology business unit that accounts for almost 80% of its revenue.

IBM, Persistent Systems collaborate on IBM Cloud Pak deployment and core IT modernization for enterprises
Pune-based Persistent also announced a new IBM Cloud Pak deployment practice to help organisations migrate and modernise IBM workloads across all cloud environments, including IBM public cloud and IBM Cloud services.

Persistent Systems sinks as Q2 results disappoint
The stock posted its biggest daily percentage loss since February 2.

Persistent Systems to host 12-hour hackathon under IBM's Call for Code initiative
Persistent, which is one of the partners for the programme, will conduct the hackathon at its offices in Pune, Nagpur and Goa.
Persistent begins search for new MD to meet Sebi norms
Sebi had in May this year asked listed companies to split the posts and set a deadline of April 1, 2020 to comply.

Persistent Systems to invest in improving sales channels
The company announced its first quarter results on Saturday, reporting a 16.3% increase in profit at Rs87.34cr and revenues of Rs 834.28 crore, up by 14.6%.

Growth is happening in newer businesses we are focussing on: Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems
"The services and the IBM business unit did better and they had growth as compared to Accelerite and digital. But these are just short-term pluses and minuses," said Deshpande.

Digital business has grown by 11% this quarter: Anand Deshpande, Founder & CMD, Persistent Systems
For this quarter the growth on the digital side of the business is almost 11 per cent and for the year. We have grown more than 50 per cent during the whole year on digital business, he said.

Digital business generates better rates for us: Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems
Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems we find that the digital business generates much better rates for us and better margins.

How to keep up with latest tech and expressions: Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems
We are trying to get more and more in the outcome business and I think if that happens at the pace that we want it to be, then you will see improvements in margins.

Alliance with IBM to give 15% boost to revenue on Y-o-Y basis this year: Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems
"I think there are definitely large opportunities for growth for the company, if you look at it in the long term."

IBM alliance has contributed to both top line and bottom line: Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems
"On annual terms the total growth was 351.65 million US dollars, which was a 14% growth. In rupee terms that was Rs 2,312 crore."

Persistent Systems may get 100 million users for Hoopz through partnerships with mobile companies
Hoopz is a platform that can bring in artificial intelligence software on a device and can be used for web, content, commerce and application discovery solutions.

Persistent Systems to set up new subsidiaries; expects 15% growth from IBM Watson alliance
Persistent Systems today said that the alliance with IBM Watson announced last week could add up to 15-20% to the company’s revenue in FY17 over the FY16 base.

Persistent Systems announces leadership and organisational restructuring
Sudhir Kulkari will be President, digital business, which will focus on the ‘how’ of digital, bringing together data, APIs and experiences.

Persistent Systems soars as company ties up with IBM to enhance client service
The company said it is working in partnership with global technology giant IBM to improve and transform engineering processes and integrated consulting services.

Persistent Systems launches specialised engineering services for IBM Watson IoT platform
Persistent has launched a specialised engineering service for the IBM Watson IoT platform towards improving and transforming engineering processes

Stock buzz: Persistent Systems seen rallying upto 15% by month-end
Institutional buying is making a comeback, a positive surprise has come from IBM, attractive valuations, they are two-three factors which make the stock attractive.

Persistent shares touch new 12-month high on robust demand outlook
Shares of Pune-based software firm Persistent Systems touched a new 12-month high on Friday, going up 4.6% to Rs 523, in mid-morning trade.
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