Frankfurt, Germany & Houston, Texas – 22 October, 2008 — PROS, a world leader in pricing and revenue optimization science and software, today announced over 40% of conference delegates have earned advanced pricing practitioner status during pricing certification training at the PROS Europe Pricing & Revenue Optimization Forum – 2008. 

“Companies have turned to PROS in the highest numbers as a trusted source of strategic pricing expertise,” stated Bert Winemiller, PROS Chairman and CEO.  “In a challenging economic environment, companies who focus on pricing excellence are best positioned to remain profitable industry leaders as conditions improve.”

The PROS Europe Pricing & Revenue Optimization Forum featured half-day level 1 and level 2 certification workshops in addition to 25 industry targeted sessions lead by some of the most experienced pricing practitioners and thought leaders in Europe.  Pricing certification training is included and available to all executives who attend the PROS Price & Revenue Optimization conferences held yearly in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. 

Following the success of the PROS Europe Pricing & Revenue Optimization Forum – 2008, PROS has announced the release of conference details for the PROS Global Summit – 2009 to be held on April 19-22 in Houston, Texas.  Current updates can be found at the new internet resource for the PROS Price Optimization Conference information: www pricingsummit.com.

About PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:PRO) is a leading provider of pricing and revenue optimization software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution and price optimization. By using our software products, our customers gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify detrimental pricing practices, optimize their pricing decision-making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS' software products incorporate 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 our 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 25 with Ph.D.s.

 

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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