MyCustomer: Price optimisation: How Big Data can help you get your ‘pricing mojo’

January 28, 2014- By Ed Farquhar Pricing is one of the biggest challenges that sales and marketing professionals have to face. It’s more than the Recommended Retail Price that you see on a label – companies can have hundreds to thousands of SKUs (stock keeping units) to manage across multiple markets. The complexity that exists […]

MyCustomer: Price optimisation: How Big Data can help you get your 'pricing mojo'

January 28, 2014- By Ed Farquhar Pricing is one of the biggest challenges that sales and marketing professionals have to face. It’s more than the Recommended Retail Price that you see on a label – companies can have hundreds to thousands of SKUs (stock keeping units) to manage across multiple markets. The complexity that exists […]

The Economist Group: Give marketers the price gun

January 22, 2014- By Sebastian Mamro Consumer data can help price products and services for premium sales As we start to see signs of optimism in the economy, many business leaders want to deliver growth by focusing on how to sell more. Sales growth requires executives to address that eternal question: what to charge the […]

ZD Net: And the winners of the CRM Watchlist 2014 are….

January 13, 2014- By Paul Greenberg As Matthew Mcconaughey said when he won the Golden Globe last night (and always says) “Alright, alright, alright.” Once again, y’all, it’s time for the CRM Watchlist to make its appearance among all the award shows. There are the Golden Globes, Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Tonys and the Watchlist…ys. Before we […]

Texas Tech Pulse: PROS Holdings Takes Majority Stake In French Software Maker

970 /company/news/texas-tech-pulse-pros-holdings-takes-majority-stake-french-s January 8, 2014- Houston-based PROS Holdings said today that it now owns 83.4% of Cameleon Software, a French developer of multi-channel and multi-device product configurator, quote, and proposal software. PROS said the move comes after an initial tender offer for Cameleon. PROS announced its acquisition of Cameleon in October, saying it would pay $33M for the company. […]

Sand Hill: 50 “Swift and Strong” in Big Data

January 8, 2014- By: Shirish Netke and M.R. Rangaswami “The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet” is attributed to Damon Runyon, who wrote about Broadway in the 1940s. Some investors use this as a guiding principle for predicting winners and losers. Notwithstanding the advice […]

PROS Holdings Controls 83.4 % of Cameleon Software Shares

Houston & Toulouse, France, January 8, 2014 – PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) and Cameleon Software (Euronext: CAM – ISIN: FR0000074247), a leading provider of multi-channel and multi-device product configurator, quote, and proposal software, today announced that PROS friendly tender offer for Cameleon Software is successful based on the results published by the French “Autorités […]