The Rainmaker Group, a world leader in automated profit optimization software and services for the gaming hospitality industry announced 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 revolution^SM Product Suite that maximizes revenue for casino hotels and property groups.  revolution is one of the only revenue management systems 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.