AUSTIN, Texas – August 10, 2007 - Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced it will join the S&P SmallCap 600 index after the close of trading on Monday, August 13th.
“We’re pleased to join the S&P SmallCap 600 Index,” said Perficient chairman and chief executive Jack McDonald. “This is a great milestone for Perficient and should increase our visibility with investors and institutions that rely on the S&P Indexes as a key part of their investment strategy.”
The S&P SmallCap 600 is maintained by the S&P Index Committee, a team of Standard & Poor’s economists and index analysts, who meet on a regular basis. The goal of the Index Committee is to ensure that the index remains an accurate measure of small companies, reflecting the risk and return characteristics of the broader small cap universe on an on-going basis.
About Perficient
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America. Perficient helps clients gain competitive advantage by using Internet-based technologies to make their businesses more responsive to market opportunities and threats, strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, improve productivity and reduce information technology costs. Perficient is a member of the Russell 2000® index and is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select MarketSM, a market for public companies that meet the highest listing standards in the world. 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 about Perficient, which employs more than 1,200 professionals, please visit www.perficient.com.
About Standard & Poor's
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About The McGraw-Hill Companies
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