Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology 
Thu, June 2, 2011
Wed, June 1, 2011
HOUSTON--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--PROS (NYSE:PRO), the world leader in pricing and revenue management software, today announced that Doug Fuehne, vice president of the companya™s Professional Services organization, will address the CFO Core Concerns Conference, sponsored by CFO Magazine. The event is scheduled for June 12-14 at Chicagoa™s Westin Michigan Avenue. In the longest-running survey of its kind, Duke University and CFO Magazine have collaborated to identify the top concerns identified by 1,000 financial executives. The conference will offer these corporate financial leaders real-world solutions for their top concerns.
"The Profitability Safety Net No CFO Should Be Without"
Organizations around the world have invested billions of dollars in technologies to protect enterprise profitability. Fuehnea™s presentation a" titled aThe Profitability Safety Net No CFO Should Be Withouta a" will provide delegates with prescriptive guidance on how pricing software can detect anomalies, take corrective action and enforce compliance across the enterprise.
aIn every corporation, CFOa™s are recognized as the guardians of profitability, charged with protecting margins, forecasting results and managing competitive pricing pressures, which the survey indicates are among their top concerns,a said PROS Chief Marketing Officer Tim Girgenti. aCFOs face unprecedented business challenges with the pace of play and changing business environments that put a strain on profitability. These financial executives are taking a hard look at pricing practices in their companies. Many are reaching the conclusion that pricing software provides the institutional guardrails to help detect anomalies and leaks that leave profitability to chance. For the most successful companies, pricing software can be the ultimate safety net for protecting profits.a
PROS Fortune-class manufacturing, distribution and services customers leverage the power of its business-to-business prescriptive pricing software to improve revenue and profitability, defend and grow market share, and improve business agility.
The PROS solution suite includes [ PROS Scientific Analytics ]a", [ PROS Price Optimizer ]a" and [ PROS Deal Optimizer ]a". The three software application modules seamlessly work together to support an organizationa™s pricing lifecycles, from identifying pricing opportunities, to optimizing and executing pricing strategies and sales quotes.
To learn more, visit the PROS website and click here: [ CFO Concerns ].
About PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. ([ NYSE: PRO ]) is a leading provider of prescriptive enterprise pricing and revenue management [ software products ], specializing in price analytics, price execution, and price optimization. By using PROS' software products, companies gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify pricing-based profit leaks, optimize their pricing decision making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS' software products implement [ 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 its software products to meet the specific pricing needs of each customer. PROS has implemented over 500 solutions across a range of industries in more than 50 countries.
Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 400 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and over 25 with Ph.D.s. To learn more about PROS, please visit [ www.prospricing.com ].
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements aboutthe functionality of the PROS products and their ability to manage and forecast across an enterprise. The forward-looking statements 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 includePROS' 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.