Houston, Texas – January 6, 2010 —PROS (NYSE: PRO), the world leader in enterprise pricing software, announced today that it has attained Gold Certified status as an independent software vendor (ISV) in Microsoft’s® (Nasdaq: MSFT) Partner Program. PROS is the largest best-of-breed ISV in profitability management and optimization to achieve this status. Microsoft’s merit-based recognition is given to companies that have met its rigorous partnership requirements by demonstrating the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and services.

“Our company has largely benefited from the partnership between PROS and Microsoft,” said Harold Peck, Vice President of Strategic Pricing, Cardinal Health. “The tight integration between PROS’ pricing software and Microsoft SQL Server gives us superior application performance and cost savings on the magnitude of $1 million. This is helping us benefit our bottom line in two ways: by quickly focusing our pricing management efforts to the best opportunities to grow our business and doing so with the most cost effective software tools available.”

Achieving competency in ISV/Software Solutions, PROS earned the designation of Gold Certified Partner because of the ability to demonstrate service readiness, proficiency and the capacity for deploying solutions built on Microsoft technology.

“The partnership between Microsoft and PROS enables PROS to bring the power of advanced, science-based pricing to business users through familiar and widely adopted productivity tools,” notes Tracy Issel, Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions, Microsoft. “Microsoft and PROS are helping customers improve financial performance throughout their organizations by combining each company’s strengths to accelerate acceptance and adoption of pricing solutions enterprise wide.”

According to PROS Executive Vice President Andres Reiner, “Companies are always looking to leverage IT into a business advantage.  This partnership, combining PROS pricing solutions to improve financial performance with foundational Microsoft technologies that are proven to lower total cost of ownership,  is exactly what CIOs are asking for to make positive impacts on profitability.”

Please join PROS at the Microsoft Global High-Tech Summit 2010 on February 11. PROS is sponsoring the event and will host a demonstration pod and chalk talk on how PROS and Microsoft together improve sales force performance and profitability. 

To view PROS’ partner listing please visit the Microsoft® Solution Finder. To read an Accenture-authored whitepaper, “Integrating the PROS Pricing Suite in Microsoft’s Environment to Facilitate Business User Adoption and Enhance Value,” please visit the PROS – Microsoft Pricing Whitepaper Site.