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Organization and Nature of Operations
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Organization and Nature of Operations [Abstract]  
Organization and nature of operations
Organization and Nature of Operations

PROS Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, through its operating subsidiaries ("PROS" or the “Company”), provides big data software applications designed to help companies outperform in their markets by using big data to sell more effectively. The Company applies data science 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. The Company offers big data software applications to analyze, execute, and optimize sales, pricing, quoting, rebates and revenue management. The Company also provides professional services to implement its software applications as well as business consulting. In addition, the Company provides product maintenance and support to its customers, including unspecified upgrades, maintenance releases and bug fixes during the term of the support period on a when-and-if-available basis. The Company provides its big data software applications to enterprises across a range of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, services and travel.

In December 2013, the Company acquired SignalDemand, Inc. ("SignalDemand"), an optimization software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with approximately 40 professionals, for total cash consideration of $13.5 million. This acquisition broadens the Company's offerings to companies in resource-based and commodity-driven industries, with products designed to help them better serve their customers in volatile markets with greater confidence and agility. Through its SaaS-based solutions, SignalDemand processes thousands of variables to deliver real-time recommendations to help companies make price and mix decisions across products, customers and channels.

On January 8, 2014, the Company acquired approximately 81.7% of the common stock of Cameleon Software SA, a publicly traded French société anonyme ("Cameleon") headquartered in Toulouse, France, in an all-cash tender offer for approximately $29.1 million. The Company has continued to purchase shares of Cameleon in the open market. Since the initial tender offer the Company has acquired additional 7.6% of Cameleon's common stock for approximately $2.7 million. As of March 31, 2014, the Company owned 89.3% of Cameleon.