[February 25, 2013]

Tom Davenport to Keynote at PROS Outperform 2013, the Big Data Event for Sales & Pricing

PROS^® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced that industry visionary and thought leader Tom Davenport will deliver the keynote address at its Outperform 2013 Conference. The annual event, sponsored by Microsoft (News - Alert), will be held April 3-4 at the world-renowned New York Stock Exchange. The conference brings together a select group of pricing, sales and marketing executives from business-to-business industries who recognize the advantages of leveraging big data to drive sales growth.

Sharing the stage with Tom Davenport during the two-day big data event will be PROS customers and industry thought leaders who are experts in pricing and sales effectiveness. They will deliver comments that address compelling topics at the top of today's business agenda:

• Sales Management in a Buying 2.0 World
• How Big Data Gives Your Sales Team a Competitive Advantage
• Pricing in the C-Suite: Raise Awareness, Get Attention & Enroll Top Executives on the Pricing Journey
• Are You the Only One Convinced of Pricing Technology

Davenport's address will provide insights on how organizations can use big data to make smarter decisions and achieve better results. A highly regarded thought leader, he is recognized as one of the world's top 25 consultants; one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry; and one of the top 50 business school professors in the United States. A prolific writer, he has written or co-authored 14 books, including several firsts in big data and analytics as competitive differentiators. Davenport's big data and analytics concepts, initially introduced in a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article titled "Competing on Analytics," have been recognized by the HBR editors as one of the most important management ideas of the past decade, and the article remainsone of its ten most-read features in the magazine's 90-year history.

"Organizations can easily be overwhelmed by the volumes of data that are available to them, whether it's from their ERP and CRM systems or external sources," said Davenport. "There's plenty of juice in that data, and with the right applications and analytics, they're sitting on a gold mine that can help inform strategic decisions. Ultimately, those that employ big data to drive business decisions and sales will be far ahead of their competitors," said Davenport.

"Our annual conference provides participants with exceptional opportunities to hear firsthand from customers who share their stories about the transformational advantages of big data that improve pricing and sales effectiveness," said PROS Chief Marketing Officer Tim Girgenti. "We welcome Tom Davenport, one of the world's foremost business authorities, who will offer insights and guidance on how to monetize big data."

To learn more about Outperform 2013 or to register for the event, visit the website at www.pros.com.

About Tom Davenport

A senior advisor to Deloitte (News - Alert) Analytics, Davenport combines his interests in business, research and academia, serving as the President's Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College, and as a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School. He is also the co-founder and research director of the International Institute for Analytics.

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 27 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 big data solutions to optimize sales, pricing, quoting, rebates and revenue management across more than 30 industries. PROS has implemented more than 500 solutions in more than 55 countries. The PROS team comprises more than 700 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 pricing software to organizations generally as well as the functionality and benefits of PROS software products. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon PROS historical experience with pricing and big data software and its current expectations of the benefits of pricing 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 pricing and revenue management needs, the risks associated with PROS developing and enhancing products with the functionality necessary to deliver the stated results and the risks associated with the complex implementation and maintenance of pricing 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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