AllVoices: PROS aims to boost its pricing savvy with $13.5M SignalDemand buy
December 16, 2013- Source: Venture Beat Just as financial-services companies want technology to execute lightning fast trades in order to capitalize on immediate opportunities, sellers and buyers at big companies need live market data to inform their pricing systems. That way, they can prevent mistakes and exploit sudden shifts that… FULL ARTICLE AT VENTURE BEAT
Manufacturing Business Technology: PROS Announces Plans To Acquire Cameleon Software
October 24, 2013- HOUSTON & TOULOUSE, FRANCE – PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) and Cameleon Software (Paris: CAM) have announced PROS has entered into a definitive tender offer agreement to acquire Cameleon in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately €24 million (U.S. $33 million), net of cash acquired. The transaction has been approved by the […]
Planet Cassandra: PROS Provides Airline Availability with Cassandra
October 22, 2013- By Hari Krishnan and Christian Hasker TL;DR: PROS is a Big Data software company with prescriptive analytics in their software that facilitates their customers to analyze their data and get the insights and guidance to optimize their pricing, sales, and revenue management. PROS uses Cassandra as a distributed database for low latency, high throughput services that handle […]
PROS to Showcase Big Data for Pricing and Sales Effectiveness at Annual Pricing & Revenue Optimization Summit
Focus on Pricing Excellence with Big Data and Analytics HOUSTON, August 13, 2013 — PROS® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced its sponsorship of the fourth annual Pricing & Revenue Optimization Summit. Scheduled for August 15-16 at Chicago’s Knickerbocker Hotel, the theme for this year’s event is “Turning Analytics into Pricing Management […]
PROS to Showcase Big Data for Pricing and Sales Effectiveness at Annual Pricing & Revenue Optimization Summit
Focus on Pricing Excellence with Big Data and Analytics HOUSTON, August 13, 2013 — PROS® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced its sponsorship of the fourth annual Pricing & Revenue Optimization Summit. Scheduled for August 15-16 at Chicago’s Knickerbocker Hotel, the theme for this year’s event is “Turning Analytics into Pricing Management […]
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 […]
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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 […]