Press Release

PROS Showcases Enterprise Cloud Solutions for Revenue and Profit Realization at Microsoft Envision 2016

HOUSTON, April 4, 2016 PROS® (NYSE: PRO), the revenue and profit realization company, today announced it will showcase its cloud solutions – SellingPRO and PricingPRO – at the Microsoft Envision conference that begins today in New Orleans. The solutions, available on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, guide business leaders to accelerate sales and formulate winning pricing strategies.  PROS solutions are designed to help companies generate meaningful revenue growth, and expand and sustain profitability.

Microsoft Envision will be held April 4-6 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in Louisiana’s Crescent City.

“Intense global competition, unprecedented market volatility and rising costs are putting pressure on companies to simultaneously drive top- and bottom line results,” said PROS Chief Marketing Officer Patrick Schneidau. “PROS, in its long-standing and global relationship with Microsoft, delivers cloud solutions with prescriptive, data science-driven analytics that enable customers to realize their potential for greater revenue and profit growth. PROS Smart CPQ for Microsoft Dynamics utilizes both Microsoft’s leading CRM technology and its Microsoft Azure cloud platform to create a consistent, personalized experience for buyers. We look forward to showcasing PROS innovations at Microsoft Envision and demonstrating the value we deliver together for our customers.”

“Technology is helping business leaders shape their future with analytics, cloud and mobile solutions,” said Hayden Stafford, Microsoft Vice President of Worldwide Dynamics Enterprise Sales. “Microsoft Envision brings together these strategic business themes and trends that provide strong, transformative changes. PROS embodies these themes by bringing innovation to accelerate sales through prescriptive insights delivered with the PROS Smart CPQ for Microsoft Dynamics solution. We appreciate the innovations companies like PROS deliver, and how they are helping us deliver on our mission of helping people achieve more.”

PROS & Microsoft
Microsoft and PROS have enjoyed a long-standing relationship. PROS is a Global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) for both Azure and the Microsoft Dynamics platforms.

Smart CPQ for Microsoft Dynamics: PROS Smart CPQ for Microsoft Dynamics turns the CRM into a revenue and profit engine with patented data science-driven guidance that helps companies reach revenue and profit goals. Smart CPQ, with intelligent guided selling and offer optimization, automates configuration, pricing and quoting processes for enterprise sales organizations, enabling sales teams to deliver accurate, specifically tailored solutions for each customer.

Microsoft Azure: The hyper-scale, security and performance of Azure, the strategic platform for PROS cloud solutions, enables PROS to build, deploy and manage its solutions in Microsoft’s globally distributed data centers.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016: Microsoft featured PROS and its data science-driven advanced analytics as a strategic vendor in its March launch of SQL Server 2016. PROS plans to embed its analytics on the new platform, enabling customers to respond to real-time market fluctuations that can help them accelerate sales and generate meaningful revenue growth.

PROS and Microsoft were winners in 2014, 2015 and 2016 of the prestigious CRM Watchlist Award, which recognizes companies that are making a major impression and impact on markets.

To learn more about PROS, visit the website or follow PROS on Twitter at @PROS_Inc.

About PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a revenue and profit realization company that helps B2B and B2C customers realize their potential through the blend of simplicity and data science. PROS offers cloud solutions to help accelerate sales, formulate winning pricing strategies and align product, demand and availability. PROS revenue and profit realization solutions are designed to allow customers to experience meaningful revenue growth, sustained profitability and modernized business processes. To learn more, visit pros.com.

Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the functionality and benefits of revenue and profit realization software to organizations generally as well as the functionality and benefits of PROS software products. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon PROS historical experience with revenue and profit realization software and its current expectations of the benefits of revenue and profit realization software for organizations that implement and utilize such software. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include the addressability of an organization’s revenue and profit realization software needs, the risks associated with PROS developing and enhancing products with the functionality necessary to deliver the stated results and the risks associated with the complex implementation and maintenance of revenue and profit realization software such as PROS software products. Additional information relating to the uncertainty affecting the PROS business is 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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James Garber
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Sheila Watson
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