PROS News
PROS Pricing Power Unleashed on Salesforce.com AppExchange
Salesforce.com customers now able to receive
pricing guidance at time of quote
Houston, Texas – December 15, 2009 —PROS (NYSE: PRO), the world leader in enterprise pricing software, has joined Salesforce.com AppExchange, an on-demand application sharing service. This new delivery platform enables Salesforce.com’s many users to apply the optimal price to every quote, every time.
“Allowing millions of sales professionals around the globe to receive science-based pricing guidance at the time of quote is perhaps the most significant value driver available to businesses today,” said Andres Reiner, PROS Executive Vice President. “PROS has entered the cloud and is proud to be partnered with Salesforce.com, the market leader. Salesforce.com’s AppExchange is the perfect distribution channel to provide PROS pricing software as a service.”
PROS enhances the site’s existing and planned quoting capabilities, enabling customers to use multiple negotiation approaches, such as volume-based incentives and tiered structures. Users now have real-time visibility into deal metrics, such as profitability and deal scores, to identify optimized prices that will help them respond quickly and confidently to market and competitive demands. To see PROS’ listing on AppExchange, visit this URL.
About Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company’s Force.com platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) helps customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com’s real-time, multitenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.
Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
About PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. is the leading provider of pricing and revenue optimization software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution, and price optimization. By using PROS software products, companies gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify pricing-based profit leaks, optimize their pricing decision making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS software products implement advanced pricing science, which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. PROS high performance software architecture supports real-time high volume transaction processing and allows PROS to handle the processing and database requirements of the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with hundreds of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS provides professional services to configure its software products to meet the specific pricing needs of each customer. PROS has implemented over 200 solutions across a range of industries in more than 40 countries.
Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 350 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and over 25 with Ph.D.s. To learn more about PROS, please visit www.prospricing.com.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements
about the functionality of the PROS products and their ability to
manage and forecast across an enterprise. The forward-looking statement
contained in this press release are based upon PROS historical performance
and its current plans, estimates and expectations and are not a representation
that such plans, estimates or expectations will be achieved. Factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein
include PROS ability to develop new products and product enhancements
with the required functionality desired and PROS ability to implement and
support successfully its products to the expectations of its customers. Additional
information relating to the uncertainty affecting the PROS business are
contained in PROS filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
These forward-looking statements represent PROS expectations as of the
date of this press release. Subsequent events may cause these expectations
to change, and PROS disclaims any obligations to update or alter these
forward-looking statements in the future, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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