St. Louis – May 3, 2010 – Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT) a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced it is the sole recipient of IBM’s 2010 Smarter Decision Management Award. The honor was announced at IBM’s Impact 2010 conference at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
The award recognizes the IBM Partner solution utilizing IBM WebSphere and ILOG BRMS software component(s) that has enabled customers to achieve new levels of smarter decision management through improved planning and scheduling optimization, high-performance visualization, business events or automated risk- and opportunity-based rule decision systems.
“We’re excited to be recognized by IBM for our contributions to helping the world’s leading enterprises leverage WebSphere technologies to improve their businesses,” said John Jenkins, vice president of Perficient’s IBM practice. “That we have recently received prominent awards from each of the three primary brands we work within - Lotus, Information Management and WebSphere - underscores the depth and breadth of our partnership and our commitment to IBM.”
About Perficient
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America. Perficient’s professionals serve clients from a network of across North America and three offshore locations, in Eastern Europe, India and 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 National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner, a Documentum Select Services Team Partner, and an Oracle Certified Partner. For more information, please visit www.perficient.com.
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