Perficient, Inc. is a consulting firm serving enterprise customers throughout North America. The company's efforts include enterprise mobile applications, creative services, marketing, digital strategy Internet of Things, information technology, management consulting, custom development, and platform implementations.
The firm primarily performs project-based work, a large portion of which involves business intelligence and portal collaboration. Perficient also has offshore capabilities.
Perficient has offices in North America, Europe, India, and China.
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History
Formation and early years
The company was founded in Austin, Texas in August 1997 by Bryan Menell. The first angel investors in the company were Steve Papermaster and David Lundeen. The company secured its first channel partnership with Vignette, a provider of content management systems.
The company's held its initial public offering on July 29, 1999 and was issued at $8 per share, ending its first day of trading at $9.375 and closing at $11.75 by that Thursday. In December 1999, the company completed its first acquisition of LoreData based in New London, Connecticut. In May 2000, Perficient acquired Compete, Inc., an 80-person IBM-focused consulting firm, and its largest acquisition to date.
Jeffrey Davis was named CEO in September 2009. During Davis' tenure as CEO, the firm added over 1,000 employees and saw its annual revenue pass $200 million. The company also transitioned from the Nasdaq SmallCap Market to the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Perficient was also added to the Russell 2000 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices.
Growth
Between 1999 and 2009, Perficient grew from 9 employees to over 1,000 employees.
In 2010, Perficient moved its headquarters to Town & Country in St. Louis, Missouri. Perficient was named to the Forbes list of "The Companies Hiring The Most Right Now" in August, 2010.
In 2011, Perficient acquired business and management consulting firm Exervio for $13.6 million. Perficient's 2011 fourth quarter profit more than doubled the prior year's performance.
In 2012, Perficient acquired PointBridge Solutions, LLC for $22 million. Perficient then acquired services and technology consulting firm Nascent Systems LP, adding business and technology consulting for enterprise resource planning (ERP), expanding its E-Business Suite applications and growing annual revenue to nearly $340 million. in July, 2012, Perficient acquired another collaboration solutions company, Northridge Systems.
In 2013, Perficent acquired TriTek Solutions Inc., an IBM-focused enterprise content management and business process management consulting firm for $18.5 million. Perficient then acquired two salesforce.com firms, CoreMatrix Systems LLC and Clear Task, Inc.
In 2014, the company made three acquisitions: ForwardThink Group, BioPharm Systems, and the IBM Smarter Commerce Division of Trifecta Technologies. Perficient also announced that year its plans to open a domestic delivery center in Lafayette, Louisiana.
In 2015, Perficient acquired Market Street Solutions, Inc., an IT consulting firm. In December 2015, Perficient acquired Enlighten, a digital marketing agency.
In 2016, Perficient announced it has entered into a multi-year partnership with the St. Louis Cardinals. It also announced the launch of Perficient Digital, a full-service, 200-person digital agency division that, according to CEO Jeff Davis, provides "front-end support services around creative design, branding and search engine optimization as well as back-end support around commerce and transactions."
In 2017, Perficient acquired RAS & Associates, LLC, a Denver-based management consultancy with deep expertise in strategy, operations and business process optimization consulting. In June 2017, Perficient acquired Clarity Consulting, a Chicago-based consultancy with deep expertise in custom development, cloud implementations, and digital experience design on Microsoft platforms and devices.
In 2018, Perficient acquired Southport Services Group, LLC, a Washington D.C.-based MicroStrategy consultancy with deep expertise in analytics, business intelligence and data warehousing solutions. In July 2018, Perficient acquired Stone Temple Consulting, an award-winning Boston-based digital marketing agency founded by Eric Enge.
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Partners
Microsoft
Perficient is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. In 2013, Microsoft recognized Perficient as its "2013 U.S. Partner of the Year" and awarded Perficient three separate regional awards related to Cloud Computing. Perficient became known for its experience with migrations and deployments related to Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Lync, Yammer, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Intune and Dynamics CRM.
The same year, Microsoft also recognized Perficient's healthcare expertise by giving the firm "Microsoft's 2013 Healthcare Provider Partner of the Year" award for "using Microsoft technology to deliver innovative healthcare solutions."
Oracle
Perficient is an Oracle Platinum Partner and delivers solutions around Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Customer Experience (CX), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Vertex Tax Technology, WebCenter, business process automation, and Oracle Fusion Middleware.
IBM
As a Premier Level IBM partner, Perficient advises companies on social business, content management, enterprise portals and E-commerce solutions.
Salesforce
Perficient is a Platinum Salesforce.com Cloud Alliance Partner. In 2013, Perficient made two acquisitions related to Salesforce.com: New York City-based CoreMatrix Systems and San Francisco-based ClearTask. Perficient won the 2016 Salesforce Partner Innovation Award in Healthcare and Life Sciences in November, 2016.
Adobe
Perficient is an Adobe implementation partner.
Philanthropy
Perficient was recognized by CRN Magazine in January, 2015 as one of "10 Solution Providers That Made A Difference In 2014." Its colleagues also built an application that allows Big Brothers Big Sisters to automate scheduling for its Sports Buddies program.
The company migrated the infrastructure and 3,000 employees of Partners in Health to a Microsoft Office 365 suite at the purchasing price without any markup, bringing cloud-based communications to the nonprofit whose workers previously had to go to internet cafes to read or send email.
Industry experience
Financial services
Perficient acquired ForwardThink Group in 2014 to help specialize in business process improvement, payments, finance transformation and risk management.
Perficient also advises financial services organizations on data governance and master data management, as well as how big data is impacting the space in the areas of Voice of the Customer (VOC), risk and fraud patterns, real-time segmentation for customer loyalty and retention.
Healthcare
Perficient is #71 on the Healthcare Informatics 100 list, which recognizes the top 100 vendors with highest revenue derived from healthcare IT products and services. They work in consumer-driven healthcare information technology.
In 2012, Perficient and IBM worked with Premier healthcare alliance to create "an ecosystem for healthcare that makes it easy for users to communicate, collaborate, share and analyze data in order to improve outcomes and solve pressing medical problems." Later that year, they launched PremierConnect, a collaboration platform for members of Premier healthcare alliance, an association that maintains clinical, financial, and outcomes database, and information on patient discharges. PremierConnect brings data together from 2,700 US hospitals to manage population health and care management.
Also in 2012, Perficient built a HealthBI suite on leveraging Microsoft technology, designed to handle performance benchmarks to meet Meaningful Use and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) rules. They also developed new solutions in big data analytics that "help track the spread of disease based on streaming data and visualize global outbreaks which could ultimately determine the source of an infection."
Perficient partnered with NASCO, a Health Plan solutions provider that ensure Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations can serve their members through web services, delivery and governance. As part of this project, Perficient recommends key SOA standards for NASCO's service governance lifecycle.
Life sciences
The company boosted its life sciences industry capabilities in 2014 with the acquisition of BioPharm Systems, which brought to Perficient capabilities in consulting around management of clinical trials, clinical data management, and safety, as well as Oracle's Health Sciences applications.
Key acquisitions
Awards
- Perficient was ranked number 10 by readers of Consumer Goods Technology Magazine in the 2009 Readers' Choice Survey of Top Consulting Firms.
- Perficient was named to Forbes' 200 Best Small Companies List in October, 2009.
- Google Partner of the Year for 2013 in enterprise search
- Microsoft US Partner of The Year (2013)
- Denver Post names Perficient among the Post's Top Workplaces in 2014
- Minneapolis Star Tribune names Perficient as one of the Star Tribune's Top Workplaces in 2012, 2013, and 2015.
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch names Perficient as a Top Workplace in 2013, 2014, and 2015
- Healthcare Informatics Recognizes Perficient as one of the top 100 vendors with the highest revenues derived from healthcare IT products and services earned in the US.
- Magento names Perficient as the Best B2B Experience in 2017.
- Internet Advertising Competition names Perficient as the Best Energy Mobile App in 2018.
References
External links
- Official website
- Perficient Digital Agency
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