Houston, Texas – March 24, 2008 — PROS,
a world leader in pricing and revenue optimization science
and software, today announced the 14th Annual PROS Pricing
Excellence Summit will take place on April 20-23, 2008 at the
Hilton Americas in Houston, Texas. With over 80 targeted
sessions during the comprehensive three day event, this will
be the year’s largest, most respected and most diverse
conference dedicated to guiding executives on the Roadmap to
Pricing Excellence. The high level of interest in enterprise
pricing optimization is reinforced by a newly announced premier
sponsorship by Accenture and reoccurring premier technology
sponsorships by Microsoft and Oracle.
PROS has an unsurpassed 20 year track record of leadership
in solving the most complex B2B and B2C pricing problems in
the manufacturing, distribution, services, hotel/cruise, and
airline industries. PROS is also proud to have the longest
running and most successful open event dedicated to Pricing
Excellence and Pricing Science.
“Executives with pricing responsibility attend year
after year because this is a truly unique and focused event,” said
Jeff Robinson, Senior Vice President, Pricing Solutions. “There
is no other forum which gives participants the opportunity
to learn about pricing excellence best practices from executives
in the trenches – early adopters and those companies
who can share their actual experience on their Roadmap to Pricing
Excellence.”
By attending the 14th Annul PROS Summit, executives in sales,
marketing, finance, operations, pricing, product management,
and IT learn how to increase profits as a result of stopping
the destructive pricing practices of “cost plus” and “match
the competition” which lead to unnecessary discounting,
profit leaks and price erosion ultimately resulting in lost
revenue opportunities. Key topics include:
- Pricing for Success: Essential Applications for an Uncertain
Economy
- The Power of Pricing through Analytics, Execution and Optimization
- Building the Case for Investing in Pricing Software
Pricing executives in all industries will find peer discussion
and best practice sessions including round tables, panels,
and featured speakers for industries including:
- Manufacturing
- High-Tech
- Petroleum
- Chemicals
- Distribution
- Financial & Professional Services
- Equipment Rental
- Airline, Hotel & Cruise
For the most updated agenda information including session
descriptions and speaker biographies please visit PROS’ website. Online
registration and a downloadable summit brochure are available
now at www.prospricing.com. Special pricing and company
packages are available for groups of 3, 5, 10 and larger groups.
About the 14th Annual PROS Summit - 2008
The 14th Annual PROS Summit is the year’s largest, most
respected, and most comprehensive event of the year dedicated
to Pricing Excellence and Pricing Science. Held on April
20-23, 2008 at the Hilton Americas in Houston, Texas, this
annual conference is the only open pricing optimization forum
to address all of the critical topics in B2B and B2C pricing
for the most diverse audience of industry executives. The
2008 Summit offers over 80 sessions in three days with topics
targeted to industry specific pricing problems. All attendees
also have the option to participate in PROS sanctioned pricing
professional certification programs before and after the main
conference schedule. Featured event sponsors include
Accenture, eClerx, Infare Solutions, Microsoft, Oracle, QL2,
and SITA.
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 our software products, our customers gain insight
into their pricing strategies, identify detrimental pricing
practices, optimize their pricing decision-making and improve
their business processes and financial performance. PROS'
software products incorporate 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 hundreds of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic
transactions. PROS provides professional services to configure
our software products to meet the specific pricing needs
of each customer. 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.
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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