PROS to Showcase Big Data Applications for Pricing Effectiveness at Professional Pricing Society Conference in Las Vegas
HOUSTON & LAS VEGAS, Oct. 16, 2014 – PROS® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced its participation in the Professional Pricing Society (PPS) 25th Annual Fall Workshops and Conference at the Encore at Wynn Las Vegas Hotel. During the event from Oct. 21-24, PROS will showcase the breadth of its product portfolio, including its enterprise pricing platform and CPQ (configure-price-quote) and rebate solutions.
PPS conferences bring hands-on workshops and high-level speakers from the worlds of business and academia, providing a diverse environment for networking, training and reaching out to professionals in the pricing world.
“The PPS events provide valuable opportunities for PROS to meet with customers, partners and thought leaders who attend,” said PROS Chief Operating Officer Blair Crump. “Companies operate with a range of complexities, including volatility in raw materials and currency fluctuations, in markets that are globally competitive. Leading organizations realize pricing is a competitive advantage and the most strategic lever to help their sales teams outperform.”
During the conference, PROS executives will share insights on how pricing leaders can take control with data-driven insights and automated price management:
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PROS Vice President for Strategic Consulting Doug Fuehne and Senior Director of Strategic Consulting Todd Pate will lead a one-day workshop titled “Managing Effectiveness through Collaboration: Setting up a Critical Partnership between Pricing and Sales” from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on Oct. 22. The workshop will showcase how to develop offers that win and how to reduce customer churn.
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PROS Chief Visionary Officer Craig Zawada will deliver a keynote address titled “Why Pricers Hold the Key to Growing Sales” from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. on Oct. 23. The presentation will cover how pricers can take a leading role in driving sales growth by helping sales teams take advantage of key growth levers.
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PROS Senior Vice President of Products Oscar Moreno will lead a breakout session titled “Real-Time Price Capabilities: The Key to Achieving Business Agility” from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. on Oct. 24. In the breakout, he will discuss how real-time pricing offers a viable way to execute the best pricing strategy today; how modeling and simulation can be used to measure impact; and why obvious attributes don’t always provide true insight into customer buying behavior.
To learn more about PROS activities at the PPS Workshops and Conference in Las Vegas, visit the website. To learn more about PROS, visit the website at www.pros.com.
About PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a big data software company that helps customers outperform in their markets by using big data to sell more effectively. We apply 29 years of data science experience to unlock buying patterns and preferences within transaction data to reveal which opportunities are most likely to close, which offers are most likely to sell and which prices are most likely to win. PROS offers big data solutions to optimize sales, pricing, quoting, rebates and revenue management across more than 40 industries. PROS has completed over 700 implementations of its solutions in more than 55 countries. The PROS team comprises more than 900 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit www.pros.com.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the functionality and benefits of pricing and big data 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 pricing and big data software and its current expectations of the benefits of pricing and big data 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 pricing and revenue management 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 pricing and big data 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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