24 Aug 2011
GROUP Lives’ Platform-as-a-Service Solution is Finalist in Computer Week’s Best in Cloud Competition
Press Release
August 24, 2011
August 24 2011 – New York, New York – COMPUTER WEEK magazine has announced that GROUP Live is a finalist in their "Best in the Cloud" competition for 2011. GROUP Live provides a comprehensive web platform for the provisioning and deployment of applications. It is a highly flexible solution that enables enterprises, midsize companies and software vendors to fully automate applications in a public or private cloud. The panel was particularly impressed by the ease and flexibility it provides versus traditional infrastructure providers. GROUP Live allows companies to deploy their solutions in the Cloud without any changes to their code or structure. IBM Germany provides a highly secure data center and technical infrastructure for GROUP Live.
Enterprise and midsize companies can move their existing applications to GROUP Live as well as develop new ones. This allows their employees to self-serve the solutions they need as well as relieve IT of resource-intensive operations and management so they can focus on their core competencies.
As a finalist, GROUP Live will be highlighted at the Best in the Cloud Conference, held October 13-14’th in Offenbach Germany. On the second day of the conference, the winners will be announced in all categories.
“In addition to our Best in Cloud award nomination, one of our partners, Forcont Business Technology, is up for the best SaaS application running under GROUP Live, for their enterprise content management solution,” says Constanze Zarth, COO Europe at the GROUP Business Software AG (GBS). "It is like being up for two awards, and we are all very pleased.”
For more information visit www.grouplive.com and www.gbs.com
About GBS Enterprises Incorporated
GBS Enterprises Incorporated (OTCBB: GBSX) is the 50.1% parent company of Group Business Software (GBS), a global software and services company specializing in cloud automation. The company serves to: automate business processes; optimize system & application performance; ensure messaging security & compliance; modernize server-based applications to Web 2.0; and simplify application development & delivery.
Strong customer allegiance paired with a diversified portfolio of powerful business solutions place GBS at the forefront of the market in terms of both revenue growth and profitability. GBS has won many awards for its innovations, as well as resources spanning five time zones.
GBS has over 4,000 customers worldwide with over 4 million users of its products and services. Its North American headquarters is in New York City and its European headquarters is in Frankfurt, Germany. There are over 15 offices throughout North American and Europe. For more information, please visit www.gbs.com.
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Michael Baum, Corporate Communications
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Gary MacDonald, EVP and Chief Corporate Development Officer, gmacdonald@gbsx.us
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