Houston, Texas – May
31, 2007 —PROS, a world leader in Pricing
and Revenue Optimization Software, announces that their 13th
Annual Summit featured a slate of world-class speakers, all
contributing to the unprecedented success of the Summit.
Over 500 executives and pricing professionals attended a
wide range of lectures that focused on creating pricing capabilities
that generate extraordinary margin and profit improvements.
“We were honored to have the participation
of such outstanding speakers,” stated Jeff Robinson,
PROS Senior Vice President. “The knowledge and
experience of this year’s speakers demonstrates PROS’ position
as a thought leader in the pricing and revenue optimization
(PRO) space.”
Contributing to the rich content offered at
this year’s Summit were the following presenters:
- Laura Preslan, Microsoft
- David Dvorin, Fisher Scientific
- Patrick Connaughton, Forrester Research
- Matt Johnson, Simon-Kucher & Partners
- BlueLinx Pricing Team, BlueLinx
- Robert Friedman, Deloitte
- Robert DeSisto, Gartner Research
- Steve Pinchuk, Harrah’s Entertainment
- Sheryl Kingstone, Yankee Group
- Lisa Thompson, Monitor Group
- Augustin Manchon, Simon-Kucher & Partners
- Tom Jacobson and Julian Short, Accenture
- Jim Saunders, Pricing Solutions Ltd.
“PROS is excited about the tremendous
success of the 13th Annual Summit,” said Bert Winemiller,
PROS Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. “We
attribute that success to the diversity of industries represented
and the quality and knowledge of the speakers, who shared real-world
challenges and successes on the road to pricing excellence.”
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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