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PROS Appoints EMEA General Manager

PRO | September 4, 2013

PROS^® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced the appointment of Eric Allen as PROS General Manager for operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Based at its PROS European headquarters in London, Allen will report to PROS President and CEO Andres Reiner.

Eric Allen, PROS General Manager for operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). (Photo: Business Wire)

Allen joins PROS following an eight-year career with Emptoris, Inc., where he served as senior vice president and general manager. He built its operation from a U.K. start-up to a multi-national business with operations across EMEA, and grew sales that accounted for more than one-third of the company’s total revenue. Allen remained with Emptoris through its acquisition by IBM.

“Europe is a strategic geography in our global expansion, and we continue to grow our footprint in the region,” said Reiner. “Eric Allen brings an extensive background in enterprise software sales, marketing and operations, with a track record for scaling the organizations he’s served, and delivering solid revenue growth from both new and existing accounts. I am confident our customers will appreciate the vast breadth of his experience, and our growing European team will benefit from his vision and leadership as we continue our expansion.”

“PROS has developed relationships with some of Europe’s highest-profile organizations, and I am excited to join the team,” said Allen. “With its strength in delivering big data solutions that enable companies to outperform, I see tremendous opportunities for PROS growth. I look forward to working with our team, and growing our business and profile across the region.”

To learn more about PROS, visit the website at www.pros.com

About Eric Allen

Allen joins PROS with a 25-year track record in sales and general management in the enterprise software market. He most recently served as senior vice president and general manager at Emptoris Inc., a strategic supply, corporate spend and contract management solutions company, where he worked for eight years. Allen also worked for eight years in increasingly responsible roles with Amdocs Management Limited. In his last position, he was vice president of sales across EMEA for Amdocs product offerings, including CRM, and other business and operating system solutions. Allen earned a civil engineering degree with honors from the United Kingdom’s University of Southampton.

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 optimise 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 http://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.