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Pegasystems Inc., known as The Enterprise Transformation Company™, announced on July 8, 2025, the appointment of Daniel Kasun as head of global partner ecosystem. Reporting to John Higgins, chief of client and partner success, Kasun will spearhead Pega’s partner strategy to accelerate AI-driven legacy transformation, focusing on alliances with global systems integrators and hyperscalers, adoption of Pega GenAI™ and Pega Blueprint™, and expanding partner-influenced revenue.
Daniel Kasun joins Pega from AWS, with prior 18-year tenure at Microsoft.
Focuses on AI-driven legacy modernization and cloud-native applications.
Strengthens hyperscaler partnerships and cloud marketplace accessibility.
Pega Blueprint™ enables partners to embed proprietary IP for custom solutions.
Targets industries like government, financial services, and healthcare.
Aims to broaden market reach and enhance service delivery globally.
Kasun brings over a decade of experience from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he led partner organizations to achieve high-growth co-sales in public sector and financial services, specializing in Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). His 18 years at Microsoft focused on innovation and revenue in regulated industries like government, education, and healthcare. John Higgins stated, “With so many enterprises looking to modernize their legacy applications, Daniel brings the experience and transformational leadership we need as we evolve our partner strategy to meet these increasing demands.”
Kasun emphasized, “The momentum of generative and agentic AI has created tremendous opportunity, particularly for modernization of legacy systems. Pega is extremely well positioned to help enterprise customers leverage those AI advancements to meet their transformation goals, and a robust, effective partner ecosystem is critical to ensuring that customer success.”
Pega’s partner ecosystem strategy centers on enabling enterprises to reimagine legacy systems using AI. Key initiatives include:
Hyperscaler Partnerships: Collaborations with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and others to address complex enterprise workloads.
Cloud Marketplace Access: Simplifies procurement of Pega solutions for broader accessibility.
Pega Blueprint™: Introduced at PegaWorld 2025, this workflow and decisioning design agent allows partners to integrate proprietary IP for tailored solutions.
Pega GenAI™ Adoption: Accelerates AI-driven transformation through partner networks.
These efforts build on Pega’s ecosystem, which drove over 80% of new deals in 2025, as seen with partners like TCS and Accenture, who have delivered solutions reducing costs by 25% and improving customer satisfaction by 15%.
With a $120 billion market opportunity in AI-driven workflow automation, Pega’s partner-led approach, under Kasun’s leadership, positions it to dominate enterprise transformation. Posts on X highlight Pega’s July 15, 2025, webinar with AWS, showcasing AI-powered legacy modernization. The strategy’s focus on scalable, cloud-native solutions ensures Pega and its partners meet rising demand for efficient, modern applications across global markets.
Pega is The Enterprise Transformation Company that helps organizations Build for Change® with enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation. Many of the world’s most influential businesses rely on our platform to solve their most pressing challenges, from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we’ve built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today’s customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow.
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