PROS Hosts Industry-Leading Pricing Optimization Summit

Business Wire,  March 24, 2008  

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PROS 14(th) Annual Summit Reveals "Roadmap to Pricing Excellence"

HOUSTON -- PROS, a world leader in pricing and revenue optimization science and software, today announced the 14th Annual PROS Pricing Excellence Summit will take place on April 20-23, 2008 at the Hilton Americas in Houston, Texas. With over 80 targeted sessions during the comprehensive three-day event, this will be the year's largest, most respected and most diverse conference dedicated to guiding executives on the Roadmap to Pricing Excellence. The high level of interest in enterprise pricing optimization is reinforced by a newly announced premier sponsorship by Accenture and reoccurring premier technology sponsorships by Microsoft and Oracle.

PROS has an unsurpassed 20-year track record of leadership in solving the most complex B2B and B2C pricing problems in the manufacturing, distribution, services, hotel/cruise, and airline industries. PROS is also proud to have the longest-running and most successful open event dedicated to Pricing Excellence and Pricing Science.

"Executives with pricing responsibility attend year after year because this is a truly unique and focused event," said Jeff Robinson, Senior Vice President, Pricing Solutions. "There is no other forum which gives participants the opportunity to learn about pricing excellence best practices from executives in the trenches - early adopters and those companies who can share their actual experience on their Roadmap to Pricing Excellence."

By attending the 14th Annul PROS Summit, executives in sales, marketing, finance, operations, pricing, product management, and IT learn how to increase profits as a result of stopping the destructive pricing practices of "cost plus" and "match the competition" which lead to unnecessary discounting, profit leaks and price erosion ultimately resulting in lost revenue opportunities. Key topics include:

* Pricing for Success: Essential Applications for an Uncertain Economy

* The Power of Pricing through Analytics, Execution and Optimization

* Building the Case for Investing in Pricing Software

Pricing executives in all industries will find peer discussion and best practice sessions including round tables, panels, and featured speakers for industries including:

* Manufacturing

* High-Tech

* Petroleum

* Chemicals

* Distribution

* Financial & Professional Services

* Equipment Rental

* Airline, Hotel & Cruise

For the most updated agenda information including session descriptions and speaker biographies please visit PROS' website. Online registration and a downloadable summit brochure are available now at www.prospricing.com. Special pricing and company packages are available for groups of 3, 5, 10 and larger groups.

About the 14(th) Annual PROS Summit - 2008

The 14th Annual PROS Summit is the year's largest, most respected, and most comprehensive event of the year dedicated to Pricing Excellence and Pricing Science. Held on April 20-23, 2008 at the Hilton Americas in Houston, Texas, this annual conference is the only open pricing optimization forum to address all of the critical topics in B2B and B2C pricing for the most diverse audience of industry executives. The 2008 Summit offers over 80 sessions in three days with topics targeted to industry-specific pricing problems. All attendees also have the option to participate in PROS-sanctioned pricing professional certification programs before and after the main conference schedule. Featured event sponsors include Accenture, eClerx, Infare Solutions, Microsoft, Oracle, QL2, and SITA.

About PROS

PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:PRO) is a leading provider of pricing and revenue 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 300 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and 20 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 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 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 are 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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