ATLANTA, GA | The Rainmaker Group, a world leader in automated profit optimization software and services for the gaming hospitality industry announced today that Microsoft® approved it as a Certified Partner for hotel gaming industry solutions. The Rainmaker Group provides revenue optimization services to companies that include Wynn Las Vegas, MGM MIRAGE, Trump Entertainment Resorts, and Harrah’s Entertainment.

The Rainmaker Group’s solutions for hospitality include the revolutionsm Product Suite that maximizes revenue for casino hotels and property groups. revolution is the only revenue management system that considers Total Customer Value, which includes not only hotel revenues, but also revenue from gaming, food and beverage, spa, and other significant sources of customer value for determining optimal availability conditions.

Tammy Farley, principal of The Rainmaker group, said, “Rainmaker Group is committed to providing state of the art profit optimization solutions that utilize Microsoft’s business intelligence solutions to meet our gaming and hospitality clients’ business needs. Our emphasis on sophisticated Microsoft software that supports reliable open solutions has been a tremendous benefit to our clients.”

The certification reinforces and further strengthens The Rainmaker Group’s relationship with Microsoft which provides access to training, product marketing collateral, and cross-selling. The Rainmaker Group is working towards Gold Certified Partner certification in 2009.

About The Rainmaker Group

The Rainmaker Group is a software and consulting services company that provides profit optimization for more than one-half million units in the gaming hospitality, serviced apartment/multifamily housing and other industries. Rainmaker consults about, implements, and supports the revolution Product Suite, which maximizes total guest profitability for operators of casino hotels and other hospitality enterprises. The company enables clients to identify and maintain availability for their most profitable revenue sources through revenue management implementations. The Rainmaker Group helps casino hotels increase profitability through the accurate, instantaneous ability to determine the minimum acceptable value of each guest. This increases client profitability by securing the most profitable customers and developing more effective business processes. Hospitality clients include Wynn Las Vegas, Boyd Gaming, Harrah’s Entertainment, Omni Hotels, MGM MIRAGE, Trump Entertainment Resorts and other leading hotel companies.

The Rainmaker Group, a Microsoft Certified Partner, also provides the revolution LRO (Lease Rent Options) profit optimization solution that enables serviced apartment/multifamily housing operators to maximize revenue from apartment lease/rentals. revolution LRO lease rate improvement results have been reviewed and validated by independent accounting firms. For more than five years, revolution LRO has delivered optimized leasing rates to the largest operators in the industry including Archstone, Equity Residential, Post Properties, Simpson Housing, Mid-America Apartment Communities and a number of other leading serviced apartments/multifamily housing companies.

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