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October 21, 2011 – Frankfurt, Germany – GROUP Business Software (GBS), a subsidiary of GBS Enterprises Incorporated (OTCBB: GBSX), announced today forcont business technology GmbH won the first ever "Best in Cloud" award from COMPUTER WEEK magazine, for its SaaS product suite running on the GROUP Live cloud computing platform. forcont provides “plug-in” enterprise content management applications including contract management, administration of electronic HR records and a central information portal. In the "Software as a Service - Public Cloud" category, forcont won over the judges with its cloud-based HR records solution currently being used by utility company Stadtwerke Cottbus.

"We and our partner forcont are delighted to be presented with this award,” says Andreas Richter, Director of Marketing Europe at GBS. “It underlines how cloud-based solutions using our GROUP Live platform and the IBM infrastructure are already providing customers with real added value and help simplify application use.”

Through GROUP Live, GBS gives independent software providers like forcont a highly flexible solution that they can use to offer their customers their own fully automated applications from a public or private cloud. There is no need for any manual installations or costly adaptations.

GROUP Live, is also used by mid-sized companies to easily store existing or future applications in the cloud, and is operated by IBM Deutschland in high-security data centers.

GROUP Live was also a finalist in the Platform-as-a-Service category.