Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Thu, January 7, 2010 PROS Earns Elite Designation as Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
HOUSTON--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--PROS (NYSE: PRO), the world leader in enterprise [ pricing software ], announced today that it has attained Gold Certified status as an independent software vendor (ISV) in Microsoft's® (NASDAQ: MSFT) Partner Program. PROS is the largest best of breed ISV in [ price management ] to achieve this status. Microsoft's merit-based recognition is given to companies that have met its rigorous partnership requirements—demonstrating the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and services.
"The partnership between Microsoft and PROS enables PROS to bring the power of advanced, science-based pricing to business users through familiar and widely adopted productivity tools"
"Our company has largely benefited from the partnership between PROS and Microsoft," said Harold Peck, Vice President of Strategic Pricing, Cardinal Health. "The tight integration between PROS' pricing software and Microsoft SQL Server gives us superior application performance and cost savings on the magnitude of $1 million. This is helping us benefit our bottom line in two ways: by quickly focusing our pricing management efforts to the best opportunities to grow our business and doing so with the most cost effective software tools available."
Achieving competency in ISV/Software Solutions, PROS earned the designation of Gold Certified Partner because of the ability to demonstrate-service readiness, proficiency and the capacity for deploying solutions built on Microsoft technology.
"The partnership between Microsoft and PROS enables PROS to bring the power of advanced, science-based pricing to business users through familiar and widely adopted productivity tools," notes Tracy Issel, Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions, Microsoft. "Microsoft and PROS are helping customers improve financial performance throughout their organizations by combining each company's strengths to accelerate acceptance and adoption of pricing solutions enterprise wide."
According to PROS Executive Vice President Andres Reiner, "As companies continue to leverage best-of-class Microsoft technologies and work to improve financial performance, this partnership will help speed adoption and enable employees to access data to make informed decisions that impact profitability, including pricing, revenue, costs, gross margin and net profit."
Please join PROS at the [ Microsoft Global High-Tech Summit 2010 ] on February 11. PROS is sponsoring the event and will host a demonstration pod and chalk talk on how PROS and Microsoft together improve sales force performance and profitability.
To view PROS' partner listing please visit the [ Microsoft® Solution Finder ]. To read an Accenture-authored whitepaper, "Integrating the PROS Pricing Suite in Microsoft's Environment to Facilitate Business User Adoption and Enhance Value," please visit the [ PROS – Microsoft Pricing Whitepaper Site ].
About PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:PRO) is a leading provider of pricing and margin optimization software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution and price optimization. By using our software products, our customers gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify detrimental pricing practices, optimize their pricing decision-making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS' software products incorporate advanced pricing science, which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. PROS' high performance software architecture supports real-time high volume transaction processing and allows PROS to handle the processing and database requirements of the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with hundreds of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS provides professional services to configure our software products to meet the specific pricing needs of each customer. PROS has implemented over 200 solutions across a range of industries in more than 40 countries.
Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 350 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and 25 with Ph.D.s.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the functionality of the PROS products and their ability to manage and forecast across an enterprise. The forward-looking statement contained in this press release are based upon PROS historical performance and its current plans, estimates and expectations and are not a representation that such plans, estimates or expectations will be achieved. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include PROS ability to develop new products and product enhancements with the required functionality desired and PROS ability to implement and support successfully its products to the expectations of its customers. 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.
