Pune: Persistent Systems today announced the launch of its Melbourne Innovation Center, a strategic hub designed to support AI-driven enterprise transformation across the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) region.
The Melbourne Innovation Center will strengthen the company’s localized engineering capabilities while accelerating AI-led modernization, digital product innovation, and platform transformation for enterprises. The launch marks a significant step in Persistent’s ANZ expansion strategy.
The Melbourne Innovation Center has been established to help organizations transition from digital experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies.
Australia has emerged as a rapidly growing market for AI and cloud modernization, with enterprises increasingly investing in advanced digital capabilities to enhance productivity and competitiveness.
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Persistent Systems currently partners with several companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange across sectors such as banking, manufacturing, and telecommunications.
Through these collaborations, the company supports mission-critical modernization initiatives and large-scale digital transformation programs.
The Melbourne Innovation Center reinforces Persistent’s commitment to building regionally anchored, globally integrated innovation hubs that enable enterprises to compete effectively in an AI-driven economy.
By combining local expertise with global engineering capabilities, the center will help organizations accelerate innovation and digital transformation initiatives.
The Melbourne Innovation Center advances Persistent’s AI-first strategy, which is built on four core pillars: Engineering Hyper-productivity, Business Hyper-productivity, Enterprise Data Readiness, and Responsible AI Infrastructure.
Through this approach, the center will help enterprises adopt next-generation technologies and improve operational efficiency.
By leveraging Persistent’s accelerators and platforms, the Melbourne Innovation Center will enhance engineering efficiency while enabling legacy modernization using cloud-native refactoring, microservices architectures, data modernization frameworks, and automated observability. These capabilities will be powered by generative AI and intelligent agents to support faster innovation cycles.
The Melbourne Innovation Center will also help organizations unlock new revenue opportunities through industry-specific AI solutions, outcome-based delivery models, and collaboration with hyperscaler partners.
Through innovation workshops, ideation sessions, and co-creation programs, Persistent aims to help clients accelerate strategic priorities and develop modern digital capabilities that support long-term business growth.
In addition, the Melbourne Innovation Center will play a key role in expanding high-value engineering and AI talent in Australia. Persistent plans to strengthen the regional technology ecosystem through targeted hiring, ecosystem partnerships, and industry-focused hackathons.
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Melbourne Innovation Center: Supporting Advanced Skilling Initiatives
The Melbourne Innovation Center will also support advanced skilling initiatives delivered through Persistent University. By aligning industry needs with academic collaboration, hands-on innovation programs, and competitive problem-solving platforms, the initiative aims to strengthen Australia’s digital engineering talent pipeline.
Commenting on the launch, Jaideep Vijay Dhok, Chief Operating Officer – Technology, Persistent, said: “Our growth strategy is centered on helping enterprises accelerate transformation through AI-led engineering, platform-driven modernization and strong data and engineering foundations.
The Melbourne Innovation Center strengthens our presence in ANZ and reflects our continued investment in the region as a strategic growth market. It enhances our ability to partner closely with clients through localized expertise, helping them adopt AI more effectively, modernize core systems and build scalable digital platforms that drive long-term growth.”
