ST. LOUIS (January 11, 2016) – Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT) (“Perficient”), the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000® and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced that it is raising its revenue guidance for the fourth quarter of 2015.
The company expects its fourth quarter services and software revenue, including reimbursed expenses, to be in the range of $131.5 million to $134.5 million, comprised of $113.5 million to $115.5 million of revenue from services including reimbursed expenses and $18 million to $19 million of revenue from sales of software.
The revised guidance range of services revenue including reimbursed expenses would represent services revenue growth of 9% to 11% over the fourth quarter of 2014. This revised revenue guidance compares to the previous guidance range of $118 million to $128 million (which included $11 million to $16 million of revenue from sales of software) provided in the third quarter 2015 earnings release distributed and conference call held on November 5, 2015.
“Fourth quarter revenue and performance exceeded our expectations. Those encouraging results, combined with strong bookings during the quarter and year-to-date, have the business executing with significant momentum as 2016 gets underway. We’re optimistic these trends will continue and drive meaningful acceleration in organic growth this year,” said Jeff Davis, chief executive officer and president.
About Perficient
Perficient is the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000® and enterprise customers throughout North America. With unparalleled information technology, management consulting and creative capabilities, Perficient delivers vision, execution and value with outstanding digital experience, business optimization and industry solutions. Our work enables clients to improve productivity and competitiveness; grow and strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners; and reduce costs. Perficient’s professionals serve clients from a network of offices across North America and offshore locations in India and China. Traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Perficient 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 Microsoft National Service Provider and Gold Certified Partner, an Oracle Platinum Partner, and a Platinum Salesforce Cloud Alliance Partner. For more information, visit www.perficient.com.
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