ATLANTA, GA, April 26, 2007 – The Rainmaker
Group, the world leader in automated revenue
management software and services to the casino gaming, hospitality
and multi-family housing industries for total
property profitability, concluded its third annual Client Steering
Committee meeting after harvesting a gold mine of development ideas from
its power users.
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Rainmaker hosted top revenue management executives from MGM Mirage,
Boyd Gaming, Omni Hotels, Harrah’s Entertainment, Borgata, Morgan’s Hotels
and other companies at the Hotel Healdsburg in Northern California’s Sonoma
wine country for a three-day conference in early April. The focus
of the Rainmaker Client Steering Committee meeting was to gather creative
input from clients for its ‘Product Roadmap’ that will inform product development
in the coming year.
Bruce Barfield, principal at The Rainmaker Group, said, “Our gaming
hotel and hospitality clients are important members of Rainmaker’s
revenue management think tank on future product development. Our
‘Product Roadmap’ is an evolving product plan for future development that
benefits all Rainmaker’s users.” The Rainmaker Group’s revolutionSM
revenue management system for casino gaming hotels and its revolution LRO
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revenue optimization system for the multi-family housing industry are widely
installed throughout both markets.
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Tammy Farley, Principal at
The Rainmaker Group
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Brad Anderson, corporate director of revenue management for Omni Hotels,
said, “I have attended numerous user conferences and was pleasantly surprised
by the collaborative approach Rainmaker took at its California meeting.
Rainmaker clearly values its customers’ input for the user-driven product
development roadmap. One thing you can always count on with the Rainmaker
Group, whatever the customer wants, the customer receives.”
This year’s keynote was delivered by Sheryl E. Kimes Ph.D., the Cornell
University School of Hotel Administration professor of operations management,
who expanded the group’s thinking with her high-level discussion of effective
revenue management strategies for restaurants and food and beverage operators.
But when the work was done the group turned its attention to local color
and entertainment.
Rainmaker’s Tammy Farley said, “We value our clients and the time they
take to work with us, so we did our best to thank them. One evening
we had a fantastic non-tourist dinner after hours at a local winery.
And for fun we flew in Jimmy Hopper from Las Vegas. Jimmy was named
‘Performer of the Year’ and ‘Pop Vocalist of the Year’ and he gave us an
evening of great entertainment.” Farley said the most valuable result
of the Conference was the sense of partnership the group developed personally
and professionally.
About Rainmaker Group
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Rainmaker Group is a software and services company that provides the revolution
product suite, powered by JDA, that maximizes total property 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 while developing more effective business
processes. Hospitality clients include Boyd Gaming, Harrah’s Entertainment,
Omni Hotels, IP Casino Resort Biloxi, Trump Entertainment Resorts and other
leading hotel companies.
The Rainmaker Group also provides, implements and supports the revolution
LRO SM profit optimization solution that enables multi-family housing operators
to maximize revenue from apartment leases. revolution LRO lease rate improvement
results have been reviewed and validated by independent accounting firms.
For over five years revolution LRO has delivered optimized leasing rates
to the largest operators in the industry including Archstone-Smith, Equity
Residential, Post Properties, Simpson Housing, Mid-America Apartment Communities
and a number of other leading multifamily housing companies. The Rainmaker
Group incorporated in 1998. |