Case Study: PROS achieves faster, more scalable pricing analytics with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft SQL Server 2016

PROS moves pricing science to the cloud to keep customers profitable

PROS, a U.S.-based professional services company, helps airlines, retailers, and manufacturers set accurate, competitive prices using advanced analytics. Its growing SaaS business was challenged by massive data volumes, rising infrastructure costs, and the difficulty of scaling on-premises and private-cloud hardware quickly enough to meet customer demand.

Using Microsoft Corporation’s Azure and SQL Server 2016 with R Services, PROS moved its pricing science to the cloud, streamlined analytics, and simplified deployment. The shift cut infrastructure costs, let data processes that once took days run in a single day, improved database performance by up to 100x, and gave customers up to a 20% performance boost after upgrading to SQL Server 2016.

PROS

Peter Tran

Performance Architect