AUSTIN, Texas — September 16, 2003 - Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), a leading eBusiness solutions provider to Global 3000 companies in the Central United States, today announced that it has been ranked #9 overall in Deloitte & Touche's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Texas, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Austin, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Houston and San Antonio. Deloitte & Touche LLP is one of the nation’s leading professional services firms. Rankings are based on the percentage of growth in fiscal year revenues over five years, from 1998–2002.
Perficient's CEO, Jack McDonald, credited the company’s strong workforce and its disciplined, deliberate decision-making with the company's substantive revenue growth from 1998–2002.
“We are honored to be recognized by Deloitte & Touche for our solid and steady revenue growth,” said McDonald. “Receiving an honor of this kind in this economy underscores the talent, dedication and commitment of our people and the loyalty of our clients.”
According to Deloitte & Touche, the average increase in revenues among companies who made the Fast 50 for this region was 2,908 percent.
“To rank on the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50, companies must have phenomenal revenue growth over five years,” said Donna Epps, Chair of the 2003 Texas Crescent Technology Fast 50, Deloitte & Touche LLP. “Perficient has proven to be one of the fast-growth success stories in Texas, and we applaud their success and vision.”
Information on the final rankings is available here: http://www.perficient.com/pdfs/deloittefast50.pdf
About Perficient
Perficient is the leading provider of eBusiness solutions to Global 3000 companies in the Central United States. Perficient helps companies acquire and strengthen their customer relationships, reduce their costs and empower their employees by helping them create Enabled Enterprises™, Web-based infrastructures with dynamically-integrated business applications that extend enterprise technology assets to customers, employees, suppliers and partners. Perficient is a “Premier Level” IBM business partner—and one of only five WebSphere service providers retained worldwide by IBM. For more information about Perficient, which has more than 140 professionals in the Central US and Canada, please visit http://www.perficient.com/.
About Deloitte & Touche
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