| ATLANTA, GA, May 8, 2007 � The Rainmaker
Group, the world leader in automated revenue
management software and services to the multi-family housing and casinogaming
hotel industries for total
property profitability, announced it is releasing Version 8.0 of its
revolution
LRO
SM Lease Rent Options system to deliver maximum profit
lift for its multi-family housing clients. Version 8.0 enhancements
include a new user interface that delivers expanded performance information
and enhanced navigation and drill-down capability to view and analyze data
more easily for profitable business decisions. The new version is
also fully Excel compatible for simplified data sharing.
The Rainmaker Group credits its Ph.D. product design team of Dr. Jian
Wang, vice president research & development and Dr. Ahmet Kuyumcu,
chief scientist, for Version 8.0�s core functionality. Dr. Kuyumcu
said, �The multi-family housing industry is a new frontier for the application
of pricing and revenue management and provides many unique modeling challenges.
These include low data volume, numerous lease term alternatives, different
pricing requirements for new leases and renewals, early lease terminations,
and significant vacancy and make-ready costs.� Dr. Kuyumcu stated
that Rainmaker employs sophisticated pricing-science techniques such as
hierarchical modeling, business statistics estimation with cross-validation,
demand and supply forecasting, dynamic reference rent calculation, and
quadratic programming to address multi-family housing (MFH) business challenges.
revolution LRO uses sophisticated mathematics to determine optimal lease/rent pricing based on competitive influences, historical performance and other factors and recommends pricing for any given move-in date, unit and lease duration. Powerful statistical modeling tools developed by Dr. Wang and Dr. Kuyumcu instantly perform the millions of calculations necessary for enterprise-wide forecasting and rate-setting across dozens of unit types to deliver updated rate recommendations as market conditions change. Leading multi-family firms credit revolution LRO with raising lease/rents as much as 20 percent.
The Rainmaker Group is a software and services company that provides, implements and supports the revolution LRO 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 also 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 incorporated in 1998. |
