Rainmaker and RateGain Team to Increase Hotel RevenueRateGain and The Rainmaker Group have announced a joint venture for Rainmaker to resell RateGain’s competitive price intelligence data to its casino and resort customers who use Rainmaker’s revolution revenue management solution. Under this partnership, Rainmaker will sell RateGain’s rate shopping solution – PriceGain-Hotels – to its subscriber casinos and resorts. RateGain offers products for the travel industry and SaaS based solutions in channel management, online brand reputation management, competitive price intelligence, and social media marketing. The Rainmaker Group provides profit optimization solutions for the gaming & hospitality and multifamily housing industries.  LodgeNet Launches App Connecting Hotels with Travelers
The patent-pending LodgeNet Mobile App will enable guests to control in-room TVs with the iPhone, iPad or Android. The app is available in more than 500,000 rooms, spanning multiple hotel brands in all 50 states and Canada. Hoteliers will be able to provide customized communications detailing their properties’ unique attributes, services and information.
LodgeNet is offering hoteliers the ability to brand and customize this app, centering on the “My Hotel” section of the application. A suite of services is available, allowing hotel partners to “speak in their own voice” by selecting among the following sample features/functionality:
Branding and Promotion: “My Hotel” section of the app can be modified with brand logos and property-specific images and promotional copy.
mCompendium: A real-time hotel and area overview can be produced and maintained digitally.
Folio Review and Mobile Check-Out: A simple and automated feature providing guests the ability to check-out remotely through the property management system.
In-Room Dining: From breakfast cards to full room service menu options, guests can use the interactive system to place orders.
Hotels manage the updating and publishing using the LodgeNet PowerPortal, a cloud-based content management tool. For hotels using LodgeNet’s new Envision interactive television system, this provides for full 4-screen control, publishing to both the iTV system and the mobile devices all at the same time.
Guarded Systems Introduces New Internet Access Gateway ProtectionGuarded Systems introduced a new solution to protect a hotel's Internet Access Gateway, the XcessPro Multi Services Controller (MSC), a full-service solution that provides an Internet gateway, firewall, WAN load-balancing and traffic shaping from a single source. It's also hosted in the cloud, and comes equipped with a built-in property-management system interface and 24/7/365 in-room support. The multifunctional appliance is designed to replace a full rack of disparate appliances, which is key to keeping costs low and both satisfaction and Internet usage rates high among hotel guests. Also, hotels are not required to pay annual licensing fees for the XcessPro MSC solution as long as the appliance is maintained in the cloud by Guarded Systems. XcessPro MSC is a single device designed from ground up to address the needs of networks deployed today and in future. It integrates the FreeBSD platform used by XcessPro MSC with other technologies, such as PF Filters, layer 7 Filter, squid and other network services.
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