As businesses today are challenged with disruptive technologies, rapidly
changing customer demands and global boundaries disappearing, it becomes
imperative for organizations to have the proper business processes in
place to make more agile, informed business decisions that drive
performance. Perficient,
Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), a leading information technology consulting
firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout
North America, today announced it received IBM’s 2013 Worldwide
Performance Management Business Partner Excellence Award. Perficient was
recognized for its ability to deliver performance management, financial
analytics and business intelligence solutions to its enterprise clients
on a global scale.
“Business analytics and performance management are not new concepts
fundamentally; they’re a part of everyday conversation as companies seek
competitive advantages, improved customer experiences and financial
growth. Yet today’s analytics solutions need to be faster, better,
cheaper and more accessible on a global scale than ever before,” said
John Jenkins, vice president of Perficient’s IBM Business Group. “With
its expanding global delivery center capabilities, Perficient’s IBM
Business Analytics team has seen significant growth and success
partnering with our enterprise customers to create a culture of
analytics, which helps foster performance management strategies that
lead to more accurate, timely and flexible planning and budgeting
cycles. This award is great recognition for the success we’ve
experienced in helping meet a key client need.”
Recently, a global biopharmaceutical company was faced with many legacy
business processes that needed updating, including its business planning
process. The company, which has approximately 21,000 employees in
locations across the world, partnered with Perficient and IBM to
implement a performance management solution that could help address
these challenges. Perficient is deploying the IBM Cognos TM1 solution,
which gives the company the ability to plan price, volume and sales
margins for their business while accounting for complex currency and
comparability rules; provides a global forecasting model that includes
third-party data for market share and market comparison analytics; and
aligns the required business requirements for completing a global budget.
“This is a Fortune 200 company that has facilities located around the
world, but over time various business groups and regions instituted
different ways to conduct business planning activities on different
technical platforms,” said J-P Contreras, general manager of
Perficient’s IBM Business Analytics practice. “With its experience
deploying performance management and analytics solutions, and its
on-shore and global delivery center resources, the Perficient team is
working to help them implement a common business planning platform on a
global scale.”
In addition to the worldwide performance management honor, Perficient
also was recognized with the Enterprise Content Management Business
Partner Award. This award recognizes Perficient and other business
partners who have demonstrated excellence in delivering business value
with enterprise content management (ECM) software. Perficient recently expanded
its portfolio of solution products and now delivers configurable ECM
and business process management (BPM) solution accelerators utilizing
IBM technologies like IBM FileNet P8 for its customers across a variety
of industries including financial services and energy and utilities.
Both the IBM 2013 Worldwide Performance Management Business Partner
Excellence Award and the Enterprise Content Management Business Partner
Award were announced at the IBM Information On Demand 2013 conference,
being held Nov. 3 – 7 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. At previous IOD
events, Perficient has been honored with awards including the 2012
Integration Excellence Award, 2011 Business Analytics Solution Provider
Achievement Award, the 2011 Information Management Solution Excellence
Award, and the Warehouse Pack Partner of the Year, Information Agenda
Partner of the Year, Best of Show 2010 for Retail Analytics awards and
multiple Cognos Partner of the Year awards.
Find Out More
For more information on Perficient’s information management, enterprise
content management and analytics expertise utilizing IBM technologies,
visit www.perficient.com/partners/IBM.
For updates throughout the event, follow Perficient experts online at http://www.perficient.com/iod and
via social media by viewing their IBM blog at blogs.perficient.com/ibm and
on Twitter @Perficient_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 offices
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, 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 Systems Integrator and Gold
Certified Partner, an Oracle Platinum Partner, a Gold Salesforce.com
Cloud Alliance Partner, a TeamTIBCO partner, and an EMC Select Services
Team Partner. For more information, please visit www.perficient.com.
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