7 août 2017
By Vicky Karantzavelou
HOUSTON and SOFIA, BULGARIA – PROS Holdings, Inc., a cloud software company powering the shift to modern commerce, announced the acquisition of Vayant Travel Technologies, Inc., a privately held company based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Under the terms of the all-cash transaction, PROS will pay $35 million to acquire Vayant.
Vayant est une société de logiciels en nuage qui fournit des solutions avancées d'achat, de merchandising et de voyages d'inspiration.
L'acquisition de Vayant accélère l'innovation de PROS en matière de commerce moderne pour l'industrie du voyage et permet à PROS d'offrir une valeur ajoutée encore plus grande à ses clients du secteur du voyage. Cette puissante combinaison crée une solution d'optimisation des offres de bout en bout conçue pour aider les entreprises de voyage à proposer des offres personnalisées et des choix élargis qui favorisent la fidélisation et la croissance.
“Together with Vayant, PROS cloud solutions will enable airlines to maintain and leverage the integrity of their revenue management strategies and add powerful new modern commerce experiences for passengers,” said PROS Chief Technology Officer Rob Reiner. “With Vayant, we see an opportunity to deliver tremendous value to the travel industry with a robust and complete offer optimization solution. We are excited to welcome a team that shares our culture and our passion for innovation and customer success.”
“PROS shares our vision for the travel technology landscape,” said Vayant CEO Eric Dumas. “The combination of Vayant’s shopping, pricing and merchandising with PROS revenue management and real-time availability solutions provides extraordinary value to our customers and partners. Bringing together the complementary travel expertise of our two companies provides a further synergy to support the ongoing changes of the travel industry and opens positive opportunities to Vayant employees. We are honored to become part of the PROS family.”