PROS®
(NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced its
participation in the Professional
Pricing Society (PPS) 26th Annual Fall Pricing Workshops and Conference.
The event, scheduled for Oct. 20-23 in San Francisco, will be held at
The Palace Hotel. PROS will spotlight the breadth of its enterprise
product portfolio at the event, including smart applications for pricing
and selling.
“PPS provides outstanding opportunities for us to meet and share
insights with customers, partners and thought leaders,” said Patrick
Schneidau, PROS Chief Marketing Officer. “PROS is redefining pricing
with our next-generation smart applications, which combine simplicity
and data science to offer data-driven pricing and selling guidance. We
look forward to showcasing how PROS smart applications help companies
realize their revenue and profitability potential.”
During the conference, PROS executives and customers will share insights
on how pricing leaders can outperform in their businesses:
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PROS Strategic Consulting Director Caleb Jones will lead a one-day
workshop titled “Best
Practices in Pricing Analytics” from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on Oct.
21. The workshop will explore dashboard design strategies, including
aesthetics and ergonomics. Attendees will learn how to construct
analytics charts aimed at composition, comparison, relationship and
distribution analysis.
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Johnson & Johnson (DePuy Synthes) Director of Pricing Strategy and
Analytics David Mok will lead a breakout session in the Pricing
Practitioners track titled “Navigating
the Perfect Pricing Storm” at 1:00 p.m. on Oct. 22. In the
breakout, he will highlight a healthcare pricing case study and the
holistic pricing framework that helped an orthopaedic company adjust
to the Affordable Care Act regulations.
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PROS Strategic Consultant Charles Sweeney will hold a breakout session
in the Sales Operations/Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) track on Thursday,
Oct. 22, at 3:30 p.m. Titled “6
Steps to Maximizing Your CPQ Investment,” Sweeney will discuss the
critical importance pricing plays in CPQ, plus top reasons for failure
and under-delivery, and strategies to avoid those pitfalls.
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HP
Vice President of Pricing, Enterprise Group, Stephen Moss will deliver
a keynote address on Friday, Oct. 23, at 10:00 a.m. Titled “Using
Pricing to Radically Transform Sales Effectiveness and Profitability,”
Moss will share how HP increased wins, reduced quote response times by
25 percent, and drove 200+ basis points of margin improvement using
PROS smart applications.
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BRF
Brasil Foods Pricing Manager Fabio Freitas will hold a breakout
session in the Pricing Practitioners track on Friday, Oct. 23, at 2:30
p.m. Titled “Optimizing
Pricing in a Highly Dynamic Market,” Freitas will share how to
choose the most profitable channels, foster cross-team collaboration,
drive insights from buying behaviors and set the right prices.
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PROS Senior Vice President of Americas Sales Kevin Wholey will lead a
breakout session in the Sales Operations/CPQ track titled “Crossing
the Great Divide: Perspectives from a Sales Executive Who Deployed
Pricing Technology and Turned Pricing into a Career.” In the
breakout, scheduled at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, Wholey will
discuss the complete pricing purchasing process, from recognizing the
opportunity to capturing value.
To learn more about the event, visit the PPS website.
To learn more about PROS, visit the website at www.pros.com
or follow PROS on Twitter at @PROS_Inc
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 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 cloud
solutions to optimize sales, pricing, quoting, rebates and revenue
management across more than 40 industries. PROS has completed over 800
implementations of its solutions in more than 55 countries. The PROS
team comprises more than 1,000 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 PROS software
products. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release
are based upon PROS historical experience with sales, pricing, revenue
management and big data software and its current expectations of the
benefits of sales, pricing, revenue management 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 sales, pricing
and revenue management and big data software needs and the risks
associated with the complex implementation and maintenance of sales,
pricing, revenue management 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.
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