Network World: Products of the Week 7.29.13

  July 29, 2013-  Product name: PROS Step Key features: Step micro-segments customers by common buying preferences, prescribes pricing strategies, and arms sales with data to identify opportunities and meet sales targets. Step runs on the cloud-based Microsoft Azure platform. More info.  

Texas TechPulse: PROS Takes On Pricing Data, Recommendations

  July 26, 2013-  Houston-based enterprise software provider PROS announced a new product this week, which it says can help mid-sized companies with pricing and selling recommendations. The company said its new, cloud-based product helps replaces days or months of manual processes for setting price, by applying big data and automation to that effort. PROS already develops […]

DataInformed: B2B Firms Inject Data Analytics into Pricing, Where Instinct Has Ruled

  July 2, 2013-  By Malcolm Wheatley At British catering supplier 3663 (the name spells “F-O-O-D” on a telephone keypad), a target of delivering a 0.5 percent improvement in achieved gross margin when selling to new customers has been exceeded fivefold. Meanwhile, at computer and printer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard, an initiative to incentivize junior- and middle-ranking […]