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PROS Airline Product Suite Features Enhanced A380 Capabilities
PROS pricing and revenue optimization software powers profitable international carriers

Houston, Texas – October 26, 2007 PROS, a world leader in pricing and revenue optimization science and software for manufacturing, distribution, services, hotel/cruise, and airlines announced today the successful implementation of PROS Revenue Management Suite enhancements for airlines operating the new Airbus A380.

“PROS congratulates Singapore Airlines on its inaugural Airbus A380 flight from Singapore to Sydney,” stated Surain Adyanthaya, PROS Senior Vice President.  “As a long-term Singapore Airlines partner, since 1995, PROS is committed to supporting Singapore Airlines and all international airlines that plan to operate the new Airbus A380.  Of the 13 airlines with firm orders for the Airbus A380, 10 of these carriers are PROS customers. “

The typical PROS customer who is scheduled to operate the A380 has over 60% of its revenue in B2B transactions.  Airlines have the most complex and process intensive B2B pricing challenges.  They have large B2B sales forces that have pricing and negotiation autonomy for commercial contracts.  These contracts include pricing, product, and volume terms and often Most Favored Nation clauses.  In addition, airlines have multiple distribution channels that create intense channel conflict including sales agents and sales representatives with pricing power as well as OEM pricing.  Airlines have the complexities of supply constraints, significantly different supply costs, near infinite product combinations, bundled products, short product life cycles, product obsolescence, promotional pricing, and volume rebates. 

Airline B2C pricing is dominated by electronic transactions that require high-performance technology that delivers optimized prices in a 200-300 millisecond window for millions of transactions everyday.

“Airlines are the most advanced users of science-based pricing optimization, stated Bert Winemiller,” PROS Chairman and CEO.  “It is because PROS continues to provide innovative Pricing and Revenue Optimization software products to the airline industry, as well as Fortune 2000® leaders in manufacturing, distribution, and services, that PROS will remain the preferred partner for 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.

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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