Symphony Metreo to Demonstrate Integrated Pricing Analysis and Sales Forecasting Solutions at the Professional Pricing Society's Fall Conference.Symphony Metreo and Lixto Software to Highlight Benefits of Combining Competitive Online Pricing and Pricing Intelligence Solutions to Maximize Revenue Potential and Improve Decision Making PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Symphony Metreo, Inc. today announced it will be participating at the Professional Pricing Society's 20th Annual Fall Pricing Conference with Lixto Software. The companies will demonstrate the combined benefits of Symphony Metreo's Enterprise Pricing Suite and Lixto's Online Market Intelligence solution at booth #11. Customers benefit by being able to achieve profit improvements and make more strategic pricing decisions though integrated competitive online pricing, pricing analysis and sales forecasting Sales forecast A key input to a firm's financial planning process. External sales forecasts are based on historical experience, statistical analysis, and consideration of various macroeconomic factors. functionality. Symphony Metreo is a pricing technology sponsor for the Fall Pricing Conference that takes place October 22-23, 2009 in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. . Symphony Metreo's Enterprise Pricing Suite is the only integrated pricing and revenue management solution that combines price planning, price visibility, price/guideline setting, deal analysis and price execution. The Suite features modular solutions such as Guideline guideline Medtalk A series of recommendations by a body of experts in a particular discipline. See Cancer screening guidelines, Cardiac profile guidelines, Gatekeeper guidelines, Harvard guidelines, Transfusion guidelines. Manager[TM], Symphony Metreo's price segmentation and optimization solution. Guideline Manager automates and standardizes guideline setting processes to empower pricing and product managers with the control and flexibility necessary to generate the right pricing guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for the business. It provides advanced analytic and segmentation capabilities to validate pricing strategies There are many ways in which the price of a product can be determined. The following are the foremost strategies that businesses are likely to use. Competition-based pricing Setting the price based upon prices of the similar competitor products. and ensure price negotiations are managed intelligently and in-line with margin goals. Marrying the power of Symphony Metreo's Enterprise Pricing Suite and the depth of Lixto's Online Market Intelligence offering creates a distinct advantage for pricing managers in the computer and electronics market who require a comprehensive, unbiased view of all important market facts gathered from online sources such as Internet shops, competitor websites and online marketplaces. Millions of data points are observed and processed in real-time, resulting in a wealth of market data unmatched by traditional market observation methods. Combining this data quality with Symphony Metreo's scientific approach to solving complex pricing challenges creates strategic opportunities for companies to improve margins and make rapid decisions that can impact future market share and revenue opportunities. "We are looking forward to demonstrating the benefits of our Enterprise Pricing Suite and Lixto's Online Market Intelligence for the first time with the influential Professional Pricing Society audience," said Tall Ball, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Symphony Metreo. "Together, we are working to ensure that pricing mangers have the tools they need to impact immediate changes in pricing strategies while being able to map out long-term plans based on relevant, timely market and competitive intelligence to increase revenues and drive profits." About Lixto Software Lixto Software GmbH empowers better decisions by searching and aggregating information in real-time and delivering end-to-end connectivity End-to-end connectivity is a property of the Internet that allows all nodes of the network to send packets to all other nodes of the network, without requiring intermediate network elements to further interpret them. It was for the first time implemented in the CYCLADES-network. solutions. The company's solutions and services are used in metasearch, online market intelligence and web process integration, thus allowing companies and end users to achieve better and more structured results for their queries. Lixto also helps companies by automating their web-based business processes. Facts and figures about markets, suppliers, customers and competitors can be found more quickly, more accurately and are less expensive to access. Lixto's customers are international companies in the automotive, travel, e-commerce and IT industries such as Fujitsu Technology Solutions, ZF Friedrichshafen ZF Friedrichshafen AG is a leading worldwide supplier of driveline and chassis technology. With 122 facilities in 26 countries and approximately 55,000 employees worldwide, ZF provides components and systems to the automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway/construction, marine, , Schaeffler, Voss Automotive, shopping.com, the Austrian National Tourist Office tourist office n → oficina de turismo tourist office tourist n → syndicat m d'initiative tourist office tourist n , Iberostar-Hotels and hotel.de. For further information please visit: http://www.lixto.com. About Symphony Metreo Symphony Metreo helps organizations meet their financial goals of Revenue and Margin with innovative solutions that align and synchronize See synchronization. top-down planning with bottom-up execution by focusing on the strategic levers of Price, Volume and Cost. Symphony Metreo serves global enterprises with innovative award winning applications in the areas of Enterprise Pricing, Operations Management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. and Performance Management. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Symphony Metreo is owned by the Symphony Technology Group, a $2.5 billion strategic holding company. For additional information, visit http://www.symphony-metreo.com. Copyright [c] 2009 Symphony Metreo, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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