{"id":1004649,"date":"2026-04-25T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004649"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:22:53","slug":"persistent-stays-on-2-billion-path-despite-ai-disruption-macro-headwinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/persistent-stays-on-2-billion-path-despite-ai-disruption-macro-headwinds\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent stays on $2 billion path despite AI disruption, macro headwinds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite macro uncertainty weighing on demand, Persistent Systems CEO Sandeep Kalra said the company remains on track to achieve its $2 billion revenue target, implying 3.5% quarter-on-quarter growth and 15% year-on-year growth in FY27\u2014still ahead of the industry, though slower than Street expectations. \u201cWe prefer to stay ambitious rather than lower expectations,\u201d he said in an interaction with TOI after the earnings call on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite macro uncertainty weighing on demand, Persistent Systems CEO Sandeep Kalra said the company remains on track to achieve its $2 billion revenue target, implying 3.5% quarter-on-quarter growth and 15% year-on-year growth in FY27\u2014still ahead of the industry, though slower than Street expectations. \u201cWe prefer to stay ambitious rather than lower expectations,\u201d he said in an interaction with TOI after the earnings call on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004671,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004649\/revisions\/1004671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}