Houston, Texas – February
20, 2007 – PROS, a world leader in pricing
and revenue optimization science and software, announces
Microsoft as Partner and Platinum Sponsor at the 2007 PROS
Pricing Excellence Summit to be held on April 22-24, 2007,
at the InterContinental Hotel in Houston, Texas.
Laura
Preslan, Worldwide Industry Director for CRM, ERP, and
SCM for the Manufacturing Industry,
will be representing Microsoft as a featured speaker at
the event. In conjunction with her responsibility
for guiding Microsoft’s
overall vision and strategy for Customer Relationship Management in
the Manufacturing industry, she will deliver a presentation
on how to achieve lasting value from a pricing excellence
transformation.
“We
are honored to have Microsoft as a partner for the 2007
Pricing Excellence Summit,” stated Jeff Robinson,
PROS Vice President of Pricing Solutions. “This
demonstrates their commitment to help companies adopt best-in-class
pricing solutions, which deliver high return on investment. Laura
Preslan has a wealth of experience in this arena, and she
is a fantastic speaker.”
Andres
Reiner, PROS Vice President of Development, further commented, “Leveraging
Microsoft’s strengths in collaboration and connectivity
to extend and integrate our pricing solutions to the information
worker and across diverse line-of-business applications
creates highly responsive and comprehensive end-to-end
processes for our customers. This is key to our technology
roadmap.”
The
PROS Pricing Excellence Summit is designed to help executives
of Fortune 1000 companies increase profits through best
practices in pricing strategies and processes. The lectures
and networking sessions will focus on how companies can
create world-class pricing capabilities that generate extraordinary
margin improvements. Attendees represent marketing,
sales, product management, operations, product development,
finance, business strategy, and top management.
The
2007 PROS Pricing Excellence Summit will take place on
April 22-24 at the InterContinental Hotel in Houston, Texas. For
more information please contact info@prospricing.com;
to register, please visit www.prospricing.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 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 100s of simultaneous users
and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS also provides
a range of services that include analyzing a company's current
pricing processes and implementing software products to improve
pricing performance. 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 300 employees, more than
100 with advanced degrees and 20 with Ph.D.s. To learn more
about PROS, please visit www.prospricing.com.
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Corporate Communications
PROS
info@prospricing.com
713-335-5151
