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Innovation Takes the Spotlight at PROS 17th Annual Revenue Management Conference

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Innovation Takes the Spotlight at PROS 17th Annual Revenue Management Conference

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PROS (NYSE: PRO), the world leader in pricing and revenue management software, today opened registration for its Revenue Management Conference, which for the past 17 years has been the industry’s premiere forum for the best minds in the travel industry. Scheduled for Sept. 21-22 at Chicago’s Westin Michigan Avenue, the event attracts more than 250 revenue management and pricing thought leaders, along with practitioners from the world’s leading airlines, cargo operators, hotels and cruise lines.

“As revenue management and pricing practices in the travel and transportation industries evolve, PROS continues to be on the cutting edge, setting new standards for our customers so they remain at the forefront of their businesses”

The forum – the largest and most well-attended event of its kind in the industry – is regarded as the gathering place where delegates from around the globe gain rich insight and knowledge about revenue management trends, business strategy innovations, and advances in new and emerging pricing technologies. Participants return to the conference year-after-year to stay abreast of the latest market trends and new best practices. The conference includes tracks for a variety of corporate functions in travel and transportation, including senior executives, revenue management practitioners, technology users and consultants.

“As revenue management and pricing practices in the travel and transportation industries evolve, PROS continues to be on the cutting edge, setting new standards for our customers so they remain at the forefront of their businesses,” said PROS Senior Vice President John Billings. “Our annual conference provides a forum for industry thought leaders to discuss how these advances and innovations are helping manage their evolving requirements in today’s competitive travel landscape. We welcome travel experts to join us for what promises to be our most successful forum to date, with a speaker roster that reflects the caliber of thought leadership for which our forum is recognized.”

The conference agenda will address today’s most pressing revenue management topics:

• Defining and developing customer-centric revenue management strategies
• Ensuring competitive practices and positioning for long-term growth through advanced market segmentation
• Capitalizing on dynamic pricing opportunities
• Adapting competitive business changes using Real-Time Dynamic Pricing (RTDP)
• Redesigning business models to address rapidly changing environments through advances in decision-support tools

Delegates who register by July 22, 2011, can take advantage of a 25 percent savings in the conference fees. To register, visit www.regonline.com/RM2011. To learn more, visit the PROS website at http://www.prospricing.com/Pricing-Events.aspx.

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 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 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.