PROS to Offer SAP HANA® with Its Big Data Application for Sales, Enabling Customers to Drive Top-Line Growth
PROS®
(NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced that it has
signed an OEM agreement with SAP
(NYSE: SAP) to embed the SAP
HANA® platform with its big data applications for sales
effectiveness. PROS delivers prescriptive analytics and real-time data
science to help customers identify sales opportunities that are most
likely to close, offers that are most likely to sell, and prices that
are more likely to win. SAP HANA is a real-time database platform that
streamlines analytics, planning, and predictive and sentiment
assessments to allow business to operate in real time.
“Today’s announcement represents a natural extension in our long-term
partnership with SAP, continuing our legacy of innovation in providing
customers with a rich integration experience,” said PROS President and
CEO Andres
Reiner. “We share a common vision of empowering customers to take
faster, more informed actions that are expected to drive their growth
and overall business performance and intended to help customers
outperform in their markets. SAP is a frontrunner in real-time,
in-memory analytics, and we are pleased to broaden our collaboration
with them as an SAP OEM partner.”
PROS is an SAP software solution and technology partner in the SAP
PartnerEdge® program and a participant in the SAP
EcoHub solutions marketplace. As an OEM partner, the planned
integration with SAP HANA is expected to offer PROS customers additional
flexibility, speed and data science capabilities for optimizing pricing
and sales.
“Companies around the world are looking for new ways to run their
businesses and serve their customers faster, simpler and smarter using
big data and in-memory analytics,” said Steven Birdsall, senior vice
president and general manager, OEM and Rapid Deployment Solutions, SAP.
“PROS big data applications for sales, coupled with SAP HANA, are
projected to provide customers with game-changing solutions that further
unlock the power of their data and enable their sales teams to sell far
more effectively.”
Since 2009, PROS solutions have achieved SAP-certified integration with
SAP solutions, including the PROS®
Pricing Solution Suite™.
“With more than half of our B2B customers running SAP solutions, we
continue to invest in our partnership with SAP to provide customers with
cohesive solutions for their SAP environments,” said PROS Senior Vice
President, Products, Oscar
Moreno. “We believe PROS depth of integration of its solutions with
the SAP ERP and SAP CRM applications is a key reason why customers
choose PROS. We now look forward to extending our offering with
capabilities included in SAP HANA.”
To learn more about PROS, stop by booth 3221 at the SAPPHIRE®
NOW and ASUG Annual Conference being held May 14-16 in Orlando; look for
PROS in the SAP
EcoHub solutions marketplace; or 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.
PROS Forward-looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements about the functionality and benefits of big data applications
for sales effectiveness to organizations generally as well as the
functionality and benefits of PROS software applications. The
forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based
upon PROS historical experience with big data software for sales
effectiveness and its current expectations of the benefits of such
software for organizations that implement and utilize this software with
a real-time database platform. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those described herein include 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 big data
software for sales effectiveness 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.
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