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PROS Europe Price Optimization Forum a Success: Record Number of Pricing & Revenue Optimization Executives Participate

FRANKFURT & HOUSTON-(Business Wire)-October 2, 2008 - PROS, a world leader in pricing and revenue optimization science and software, today announced record participation at the PROS Europe Pricing & Revenue Optimization Forum – 2008. The unmatched level of interest and participation of pricing executives from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North America, and South America made this the most successful event of its kind for pricing executives doing business in Europe. Global technology sponsorship was provided by Microsoft, and the conference itself was endorsed by the European Pricing Platform, the leading independent platform for European pricing decision makers.

Executives from a variety of backgrounds and industries offered the following feedback based on their experiences at the PROS’ Europe focused price optimization conference:

"The PROS conference is a milestone for pricing professionals. It shows that pricing is an expertise supported by strong processes and sophisticated software."
	— France-Based Global Industrial Manufacturing & Services Pricing Strategy Executive

"The conference provided me significant personal value"
	— Poland-Based Global IT Executive

"Networking possibilities fantastic. Great to hear pricing approaches from various industries."
	— Germany-Based Hospitality Pricing Strategy Executive

"I met a lot of interesting people active in the same discipline which were all very accessible. I gathered useful information to optimize our pricing process."
	— Germany-Based Global Services & Logistics Pricing Strategy Executive

By attending the PROS Europe Pricing & Revenue Optimization Forum, executives with pricing responsibility gained access to a unique community of pricing practitioners with real-world experience in implementing real-time integrated science and pricing best practices through highly scalable and high-performance pricing optimization software.

With over 25 industry targeted sessions lead by some of the most experienced pricing practitioners and thought leaders in Europe, and PROS sanctioned pricing certification training, PROS provided Europe-focused executives with the information needed to take the next step on the Roadmap to Pricing Excellence.

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 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 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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