Sponsors

SAP®, the world’s leading provider of business software, with more than 33,200 customers in more than 120 countries, sources its price and margin management solution from Vendavo. It is sold by SAP worldwide under the name SAP Price and Margin Management by Vendavo.

The SAP Price and Margin Management application provides a unique extension to the price execution functionality of SAP software, enabling SAP customers to capitalize on their existing SAP investment and the power of the SAP NetWeaver platform to improve pricing collaboration and decision-making throughout the enterprise. The application is in use worldwide by some of the largest and most successful global corporations, including SAP customers across multiple industries. Visit our website at www.sap.com.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Visit our website at www.accenture.com.


Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte Consulting), a subsidiary of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation's leading professional service firms, has formed an alliance with Vendavo to deliver price and margin management products and services to business-to-business customers worldwide.  By combining Deloitte Consulting's experience in pricing strategy and implementation with Vendavo's time-tested and customer-tested price management software, the two companies work together to deliver end-to-end products and services designed to help customers across multiple industries address revenue and profitability improvements. Visit our website at www.deloitte.com.

International Business Machines or IBM was founded in 1911, and today it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. As of 2011, IBM was the third-largest publicly traded technology company in the world, as well as the 7th most profitable. IBM holds more patents than any other U.S.-based technology company, and has nine research laboratories worldwide. It has over 426,000 employees serving clients in over 170 countries. Visit our website at www.ibm.com.

As the global business and IT consulting company of Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Consulting is uniquely positioned with the agility and client-focused approach of a boutique firm combined with the stability and innovation that comes from the Hitachi heritage. Hitachi Consulting's client base spans a wide range of industries and includes 35 percent of the Fortune 100, 25 percent of the Global 100, and many mid-market leaders.With offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, the company employs more than 5,000 professionals with global delivery centers in India and China. Visit our website at www.hitachiconsulting.com.


PPS is the world's only professional society dedicated to pricing training and education. Our mission is to nurture a growing community of pricing professionals while staying committed to disseminating pricing expertise throughout the business world. We provide pricing professionals with current strategies, market trends, analysis, research and resources from today's leading pricing experts and technology. Typically, Pricing, Marketing, and General Management executives from Fortune 1000 and mid-sized firms are members of the Pricing Society. Visit our website at www.pricingsociety.com.

Marketing Associates has a compelling 40-year history, but what we've accomplished thus far only hints at what we're capable of today. MA is a unique entity – a one-of-a-kind combination of creative and technology-driven marketing services that cut across multiple disciplines to deliver a whole that is truly greater than the sum of its parts. Today's complex business and marketing environments require a fresh and vigilant approach to human communications – and we get it. More importantly, we deliver it – for you. Visit our website at www.marketingassociates.com.