PROS to Spotlight Big Data Applications for Sales Effectiveness at the Professional Pricing Society Fall Conference
HOUSTON, Oct. 15, 2013 – PROS® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced its sponsorship of the 24th annual Professional Pricing Society (PPS) fall pricing workshops and conference. The event is scheduled October 22 – 25, and will be hosted at The Loews Hotel in Atlanta. In addition to its enterprise product platform, PROS will showcase Step™, the company’s latest big data innovation. Step provides mid-size companies with pricing and selling recommendations, powered by data science, in a cloud-based, self-service model that’s easy to set up and use.
PROS Strategic Consultants – Director of Value Engineering Jeff Collins, Ph.D., and Director of Strategic Consulting Caleb Jones – will lead a workshop focusing on the development of KPIs related to pricing actions, and how to construct dashboards that resonate with stakeholders. Their presentation – Measuring Value and Reporting Performance – is scheduled for October 22 at 9:00 a.m. EST.
“The PPS conference is a meeting place for some of the best practitioners and thought leaders in the pricing community, and it’s where we meet many customers, alliance partners and prospects,” said PROS Chief Marketing Officer Tim Girgenti. “PPS also provides us with the opportunity to showcase our newest innovations and share best practices that help businesses leverage their big data and prescriptive analytics to advance pricing and sales effectiveness.”
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 27 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 30 industries. PROS has completed over 600 implementations of its solutions in more than 50 countries. The PROS team comprises more than 700 people 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 PROS pricing and big data software. 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. Additional information relating to the uncertainty affecting 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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