St. Louis – October 22, 2011 – 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 2011 Business Analytics Solution Provider Achievement Award. Perficient was honored during the Business Analytics Business Partner Summit at IBM’s Information on Demand 2011 held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
“We’re pleased to again be recognized by IBM and the Information Management brand for our contributions to helping the world’s leading enterprises implement an information-led transformation,” said J-P Contreras, General Manager of Perficient’s IBM business analytics practice. “Solutions developed leveraging IBM tools like Cognos 10 TM1, Enterprise Planning, and Controller not only offer our customers tremendous real-time visibility into their business, but allow them to create value by extracting and acting upon their data.”
At previous IOD events, Perficient has been honored with awards including Warehouse Pack Partner of the Year, Information Agenda Partner of the Year, Best of Show 2010 for Retail Analytics, and multiple Cognos Partner of the Year awards.
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 Platinum Partner. For more information, please visit www.perficient.com.
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