PROS Announces Speaker Lineup for Outperform 2013, the Big Data Event for Sales & Pricing
PROS® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today
announced that a host of industry thought leaders will deliver addresses
at its Outperform
2013 Conference. The annual event, sponsored by Microsoft, Deloitte
and the Professional Pricing Society, will be held April 3-4 at the
world-renowned New York Stock Exchange. The conference brings together a
select group of pricing, sales and marketing executives from
business-to-business companies that recognize the advantages of
leveraging big data to drive sales growth.
In addition to industry visionary and thought leader Tom Davenport, who
will keynote at Outperform 2013, PROS customers and industry thought
leaders who are experts in pricing and sales effectiveness will share
the stage. They will deliver comments that address compelling topics at
the top of today’s business agenda:
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Edmond Brown, Director of Pricing, American
Standard Brands: Why Sales Needs a Pricing Solution
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Neil Biehn, Ph.D., PROS Vice President, Science: The New “V” in Big
Data: How Viability is Driving Better Outcomes
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Tom
Davenport: Keeping Up with the Quants. Smarter Decisions,
Better Results. Davenport is a highly regarded big data and
analytics thought leader and one of the 100 most influential people in
the IT industry.
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Jim
Dickie, Managing Partner, CSO
Insights: Sales Management in a 2.0 World
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Chris Fletcher, Research Director, Enterprise Applications, Gartner,
Inc.: Pricing Effectiveness Through Big Data
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Scott Green, Global Pricing Lead for Panduit:
Pricing is Bigger Than Any One Organization
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Chris
Jones, PROS Chief Sales Officer: How Big Data Gives Your Sales
Team a Competitive Advantage
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Stephan
Liozu, Ph.D., Founder of Value Innoruption Advisors: How to Get
Your CEO to Care About Pricing
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David Mok, Worldwide Director of Pricing, DePuy
Synthes Spine, a Johnson & Johnson company: Driving Profit
at the Speed of Pricing
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Alice Wachol, Principal, Deloitte Consulting: Buckle Up: Service
Parts Pricing Road Test
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Craig
Zawada, PROS Chief Visionary Officer: How to Find the
Competitive Edge You’re Looking for (Hint: It’s in Your Own Backyard)
“With all the market dialogue around big data, it’s more important than
ever for executives to understand where they can get the best return on
their big data,” said PROS Chief Marketing Officer Tim Girgenti. “At
this event, our customers and industry experts will share firsthand
experiences about how using big data to drive sales and pricing
effectiveness has created outstanding business results. We are grateful
to our customers for sharing their extraordinary stories, and we look
forward to another great event at the New York Stock Exchange.”
To learn more about Outperform
2013 or to register for the event, 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 implemented more
than 600 solutions in more than 55 countries. The PROS team comprises
more than 700 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 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.