Houston, Texas – August
18, 2005—
PROS, a world leader in pricing
and revenue optimization science and software, announced strong
positive results for the second quarter and the first half
of 2005. PROS extended its record of profitability and positive
cash flow to 26 straight quarters. The first half of 2005 maintains
PROS strong balance sheet with a strong cash position, strong
backlog, and no bank debt.
“We are thrilled with our performance because it represents
the continuing confidence of our customers and our leadership
in Pricing Revenue Optimization,” says Bert Winemiller,
Chairman and CEO. “PROS has established itself as the
global leader in pricing analytics and profit optimization
solutions with the leading companies in 10 major industries.
Being the largest and most profitable software company in this
market has allowed us to accelerate our growth and accelerate
investment in advanced science and high performance scalable
solutions.”
PROS has been recognized as the standout in the Pricing Revenue
Optimization space by the members of the analyst community.
PROS received the highest ratings in all categories of Price
Management and Profit Optimization in a new report by Yankee
Group. The report is entitled Price Management and Profit Optimization
Solutions Are the Best-Kept Secrets in Enterprise Software.
Forrester Research identified PROS as the best-of-breed vendor
with the strongest current product offering, product strategy,
and market presence in the Price Solutions market.
Major milestones to date include:
- 17 new deals closed; purchased solutions include the latest
versions of the PROS Price Management System as well as our
Advanced Revenue Management, Price List Optimization, Contract
Price Optimization, and Pricing Analytics solutions.
- Closed contracts with two Consumer Products customers
in the first half of 2005. PROS solution will help these
companies price thousands of SKUs at retail, and with inventory
management, pricing strategy, supply chain, and optimization
of the product planning process.
- Six new airlines joined the PROS customer base. Five major
new contracts for the PROS O&D Solution. Six deployments
of the new PROS solution to address the challenges of a restriction-free
pricing environment.
- Completed the production rollout of the PROS Pricing Solution
to 900+ sales representatives that make 20,000+ optimized
price quotes everyday.
- Hired 40 new employees to fill professional staff positions
in software development, science, and professional services.
- Major investment in new science, new software development,
and new consulting services.
- Record setting attendance for the PROS 11th Annual Pricing
Revenue Optimization Conference held May 1-4, 2005 in Houston,
Texas at the Hilton Americas Hotel. The conference was comprised
of two separate tracks: a Pricing Excellence Summit and a
Revenue Management Conference, over 460 people attended the
combined event, making it PROS largest conference ever.
Financial Highlights:
- Profitability and positive cash flow for 26 continuous
quarters
- Positive cash flow resulting in an all time high cash position
of $30+ million
- Capital expenditures in high-performance application servers,
database servers, and mass storage
- Revenues up 8%
- Headcount up 15% to 225 employees
- No Debt
- Backlog of $30+ million
“PROS has achieved the highest levels of customer satisfaction
and financial strength by developing PROS Pricing Solutions
that incorporate the most advanced science in a configurable
software platform that has one version of source code,” says
Winemiller. “The PROS Solution Platform allows unique
configured implementations for each customer. It also provides
high performance scalable solutions for calculation intensive
batch processing, for real-time optimized transaction processing,
and for e-commerce processing handling 500+ transactions per
second.”
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PROS Corporate Communications
email: info@prospricing
phone: 713.335.5151
/ fax: 713.335.8144