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GROUP Business Software and Synaptris Announce Strategic Global Agreement

GROUP adds Synaptris' FewClix email productivity solution for Lotus Notes to its portfolio

New York, NY - 02 March 2011 : GROUP Business Software AG, the world's largest provider of business solutions built on IBM's Lotus software, and Synaptris, the global leader in information management for IBM’s Lotus Notes & Domino platform today announced that they have signed a strategic global reseller agreement.

Under the terms of the agreement, GROUP will add FewClix, Synaptris’ email productivity solution for Lotus Notes to its portfolio of software. FewClix is an email productivity application for Lotus Notes that completely changes the corporate email paradigm. FewClix gives Lotus Notes email users an easy and intuitive way to quickly prioritize and find any email they are looking for in their mailbox or archives. It is tailored to meet the unique needs of the enterprise market and delivers improved efficiency and productivity to email users.

"The addition of Synaptris' FewClix to our portfolio enables us to consolidate our current capabilities in the business critical area of enterprise productivity by adding a new set of end user capabilities," said Jörg Ott, GROUP's CEO and Chairman. Today's announcement is synergistic with GROUP's business strategy given Synaptris' market leadership in information management solutions and GROUP's domain expertise and focus on the overall Lotus & Domino market."

"The agreement with GROUP enables Synaptris to significantly expand our market presence and our ability to address a larger part of the Lotus Notes email client market, estimated to be 145 million users," said Madan S. Kumar, CEO, Synaptris. "GROUP's focus on the Lotus Notes messaging and collaboration space makes it an ideal partnership and aids in rapidly increasing the addressed market for FewClix. Synaptris will also benefit from GROUP's breadth and depth of experience in serving the Lotus Notes market and its global reach."

About Group Business Software
Group Business Software AG, founded in 1992, is the worldwide leader in solutions built on and for IBM Lotus software. The company boasts more than 4,000 customers worldwide with more than 4 million users of their products and services. GBS has 12 locations across North America, eastern and central Europe and the United Kingdom. Its European headquarters is in Frankfurt, Germany and North American headquarters is located in New York City. For more information please visit http://www.gbs.com/.

About FewClix
FewClix, from Synaptris, the market leading Lotus Notes information management company, is an email produc-tivity application for Lotus Notes that completely changes the corporate email paradigm. FewClix gives Lotus Notes email users an easy and intuitive way to quickly prioritize their email, instantly find any email they are look-ing for in their mailbox or archives, personalize their mailbox, organize their emails and extend their social net-works. FewClix is available for purchase or evaluation by Lotus Notes users at http://www.fewclix.com.

About Synaptris
Synaptris is a leading player in the information management market and delivers award-winning "flexible" and "user-driven" reporting, dashboards and analysis solutions that have been recognized for industry-leading innovation and ease-of-use. Synaptris has over 2300 customers across 80 countries and is headquartered in San Jose with offices in New York, London, Sofia and Chennai.

Synaptris is venture backed by SAIF Partners, a leading Private Equity firm with over $2 Billion under management.

For more information please visit http://www.synaptris.com

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