Automation software provider Pega has appointed Daniel Kasun as the head of its global partner ecosystem.

Kasun joins the company following a more than decade-long stint at Amazon Web Services. He most recently led a business unit that helped AWS software partners sell their products to financial institutions. Earlier, he oversaw teams that focused on promoting partner technologies to public sector clients.

Kasun previously spent 18 years at Microsoft. For the last five of those years, he was the senior director of developer and platform evangelism at the company’s U.S. public sector business.

Nasdaq-listed Pega, which announced a new partnership with AWS earlier this week, provides a software platform for automating business tasks. Companies use it to speed up repetitive parts of their employees’ work such as data entry. Pega’s software also lends itself to certain other use cases. One of them is process mining, which is the task of analyzing how work is performed in a company to find inefficiencies.

Kasun will be responsible for leading an overhaul of Pega’s partner strategy. According to the company, the effort will place an emphasis on expanding its relationships with major cloud providers and systems integrators.

Pega Blueprint, a product that the software maker debuted earlier this year, is set to play an important role in the initiative. It uses generative AI and templates to speed up the process of developing business applications. Consulting partners that use Pega Blueprint can add their branding to the applications they build for clients.

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