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Perficient Wins Prestigious IBM Award

AUSTIN, TX, October 16, 2007—Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced that it has been named the recipient of IBM’s 2007 Information Management North American Distinguished Partner Award, an annual award granted to one IBM Business Partner in North America in recognition of their outstanding services and solutions leveraging Information Management technologies. Perficient was the sole recipient selected among several thousand eligible IBM Business Partners.

Perficient received the prestigious award at IBM’s Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, the premier information management event for IT developers and professionals.

“We’re incredibly honored to receive this prestigious industry award,” said Jeffrey Davis, Perficient’s President and Chief Operating Officer. “Information Management-based solutions deliver meaningful value to our clients and are playing an increasingly important role in our success. To be the sole recipient of this award in North America is a tremendous validation of our talent and expertise.”

“Perficient’s business intelligence, data warehousing and master data management teams are among the finest in the industry,” said Brenden Cyze, Director of Perficient’s business intelligence competency center. “Our team focused on the IBM Information Management stack, under Nagesh Kanumury, has been incredibly successful delivering value to our clients. This award is a reflection of their efforts and results.”

About Perficient

Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America. Perficient’s 1,400 professionals serve clients from a network of 18 offices in North America and two offshore development centers, including a CMMI Level 4 certified global development center in China. Perficient helps clients use Internet-based technologies to improve productivity and competitiveness, strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners and reduce information technology costs. Perficient, traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market(SM), is a member of the Russell 2000® index and the S&P SmallCap 600 index. Perficient is an award-winning "Premier Level" IBM business partner, a TeamTIBCO partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a Documentum Select Services Team Partner and an Oracle-Siebel partner. For more information, please visit www.perficient.com.

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