Houston, Texas – March 24, 2005 — PROS Pricing Solutions, a world leader in Pricing Analytics and Optimization software, announced its 2005 Pricing Excellence Summit. The summit will be held at the Hilton Americas hotel in downtown Houston, Texas from May 1-3, 2005.
Presentations at this year’s summit are addressing comprehensive pricing problems, topics include:
- How to get your sales force to make better pricing decisions
- How to stop hidden profit leaks
- What pricing strategies and tools will boost your company's growth?
- Keys to successfully implementing a pricing solution
- How to price against industry price erosion
- Profitable demand management
- How better forecasting can improve pricing profitability
- What is pricing optimization and how can you implement it?
The summit will showcase the success companies are realizing through the implementation of pricing analytics software. “This year’s Pricing Excellence Summit is tailored for a range of pricing professionals from newcomers to post-implementation professionals. Each attendee will leave with the ability to examine if their company is leaving money on the table due to suboptimal pricing, as well as how to plug profit leaks due to things like unnecessary discounting or misaligned sales incentives.” said Jeff Robinson, Senior Group Vice President, PROS Pricing Solutions.
Attendees may network with industry consultants, executives, and practitioners at several social events. The Summit kicks off with a Sunday night welcome reception at the Hilton Americas Hotel. Monday evening PROS will host cocktails and dinner at the Champions Pavilion at the award-winning MinuteMaidPark while the Houston Astros play the Pittsburgh Pirates. These events will give attendees the opportunity to network in a fun and casual environment, and are included in the price of admission to the Summit.
This year’s speaker line up includes:
- Robert Blumstein, IDC
- David Dvorin, American Greetings
- Stanley Elbaum, Aberdeen Group
- John Evler, Seton Healthcare Network
- Kosin Huang, The Yankee Group
- Warren Lieberman, Ph.D., Veritec Solutions
- Augustin Manchon, Accenture
- Lee Montgomery, AIMCO
- Michael Nugent, The Tiber Group
- Robert L. Phillips, Ph.D., Nomis Solutions
- Laura Preslan, AMR Research
- Jeff Robinson, PROS Pricing Solutions
- Michael Simonetto, Deloitte
- Lisa Thompson, Strategic Pricing Group
- Noha Tohamy, Forrester Research
- Theodore V. Valkov, Ph.D., PROS Pricing Solutions
Industry specific case studies will focus on understanding the key drivers of pricing profitability, developing clear pricing performance metrics based on price analytics, and maximizing profitability based on strategic pricing decisions backed by proven science and analysis.
Registration has opened for the Summit. Visit www.prospricing.com/summit for registration and more details.
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