{"id":828970,"date":"2024-07-03T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=828970"},"modified":"2024-07-04T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T03:11:12","slug":"indian-firm-persistent-systems-acquires-us-based-starfish-associates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/03\/indian-firm-persistent-systems-acquires-us-based-starfish-associates\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian firm Persistent Systems acquires US-based Starfish Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital engineering and enterprise modernisation company Persistent Systems on Wednesday said it had acquired New Jersey-based Starfish Associates for an undisclosed sum. <\/p>\n<p>Known for its enterprise communications automation platform, Starfish Associates caters to the world&#8217;s largest enterprises including many Fortune 500 companies. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The integration of Starfish Associates&#8217; platform greatly enhances our unified communications and contact centre management offerings as this industry undergoes significant disruption on the back of AI-led innovations,&#8221; said Sandeep Kalra, CEO and Executive Director, Persistent Systems. <\/p>\n<p>Starfish Associates&#8217; automation platform enhances multi-vendor communication management through automation with platforms such as Amazon Connect, Avaya, Cisco, Genesys, and Microsoft Teams. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joining forces with Persistent presents a new chapter for us, on the one hand augmenting our capabilities in integration, automation, and AI-driven contact centre transformation, and on the other hand, giving us access to Persistent&#8217;s strong customer base,&#8221; said Robert Hankin, Co-Founder and Partner, Starfish Associates. <\/p>\n<p>With the acquisition of Starfish Associates, Pune-based Persistent is positioned to disrupt the unified communications and contact centre markets, said Phil Fersht, CEO and Chief Analyst, HFS Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital engineering and enterprise modernisation company Persistent Systems on Wednesday said it had acquired New Jersey-based Starfish Associates for an undisclosed sum. Known for its enterprise communications automation platform, Starfish Associates caters to the world&#8217;s largest enterprises including many Fortune 500 companies. &#8220;The integration of Starfish Associates&#8217; platform greatly enhances our unified communications and contact centre management offerings as this industry undergoes significant disruption on the back of AI-led innovations,&#8221; said Sandeep Kalra, CEO and Executive Director, Persistent Systems. Starfish Associates&#8217; automation platform enhances multi-vendor communication management through automation with platforms such as Amazon Connect, Avaya, Cisco, Genesys, and Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828970","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}