Rainmaker Signs Three-Year Renewal with TIBCO Software for Training Sales

Rainmaker's ViewCentral Platform is Currently Deployed for Training Management
Support

CAMPBELL, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rainmaker Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: RMKR), a leading provider of sales and marketing solutions combining
hosted application software and execution services, today announced that it
has been awarded a three-year Training Sales renewal agreement by TIBCO
Software, Inc., a leading business integration and process management software
company, to deploy its live, virtual and on-demand ViewCentral(TM) platform
for training sales, webinar and event management support.
Rainmaker's ViewCentral platform is an external facing Learning Management
System that is an online, 24X7 available, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
ViewCentral focuses on delivering increased training revenue and profit for
customer and partner training programs.
ViewCentral manages the entire business lifecycle of training and events,
from marketing, scheduling, advertising, registration, payments, post-course
reporting and analysis enabling to continually improve training content and
processes. This agreement includes ViewCentral's Classroom, vClassroom and
eLearning platforms to drive online registration and help increase attendance
for TIBCO's face-to-face on-site training events, on-demand and live,
instructor-led virtual courses.
Rainmaker's CEO Michael Silton commented, "Our ViewCentral platform
delivers significant advantages via an on-demand, hosted, powerful and easy-
to-use solution that helps clients grow their training revenue and
registrations, while greatly reducing training management and administrative
overhead, leading to increased productivity and profitability. We are
delighted to be awarded a three-year renewal to support their training sales
initiatives."
About TIBCO
TIBCO's technology digitized Wall Street in the '80s with event-driven
"Information Bus" software, which helped make real-time business a strategic
differentiator in the '90s. Today, TIBCO's infrastructure software gives
customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and
data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through
business process management, and giving people the information and
intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions, what we
call The Power of Now. TIBCO serves more than 3,000 customers around the world
with offices in more than 20 countries and an ecosystem of over 200 partners.
Learn more at http://www.tibco.com.
About Rainmaker
Rainmaker Systems, Inc. delivers sales and marketing solutions, combining
hosted application software and execution services designed to drive more
revenue for our clients. Our Revenue Delivery Platform(SM) combines
proprietary, on-demand application software and advanced analytics with
specialized sales and marketing execution services. Rainmaker clients include
large enterprises in a range of industries, including computer hardware and
software, telecommunications, and financial services industries. For more
information, visit http://www.rmkr.com or call 800-631-1545.
NOTE: Rainmaker Systems, the Rainmaker logo, and Sunset Direct are
registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All other service marks
or trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding future
events. These forward-looking statements are based on information available
to Rainmaker as of this date and they assume no obligation to update any such
forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future
performance, and actual results could differ materially from current
expectations. Among the important factors which could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are general
market conditions, unfavorable economic conditions, our ability to execute our
business strategy, our ability to integrate acquisitions without disruption to
our business, the effectiveness of our sales team and approach, our ability to
target, analyze and forecast the revenue to be derived from a client and the
costs associated with providing services to that client, the date during the
course of a calendar year that a new client is acquired, the length of the
integration cycle for new clients and the timing of revenues and costs
associated therewith, our client concentration given that we are currently
dependent on a few significant client relationships, our ability to expand our
channel hosted contract solution and drive adoption of this solution by
resellers, potential competition in the marketplace, the ability to retain and
attract employees, market acceptance of our service programs and pricing
options, our ability to maintain our existing technology platform and to
deploy new technology, our ability to sign new clients and control expenses,
the possibility of the discontinuation and/or realignment of some client
relationships, the financial condition of our clients' businesses, and other
factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including our filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
SOURCE Rainmaker Systems, Inc.

Steve Valenzuela, Chief Financial Officer of Rainmaker Systems, Inc.,
+1-408-626-2439, stevev@rmkr.com; or Todd Kehrli, or Jim Byers, Investor
Relations of MKR Group, Inc., +1-323-468-2300, rmkr@mkr-group.com, both for
Rainmaker Systems, Inc.