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Bestforent Holding

Consulting, engineering and products for industries where getting it wrong is expensive.

Bestforent Holding is a Vienna-based technology group. We consult, we engineer, and we build our own products.

Our products today: BrainTrainAI for regulated knowledge and compliance, and MyVipGuest for hospitality loyalty. Our operating company CET4Biz delivers for European railway organisations.

Products we own, build and operate

All products
Regulated industries
BrainTrainAIbrain-train.at
Compliance
AI-supported knowledge, validation and governance Proven in European rail
Hospitality, retail and luxury brands
MyVipGuestmyvipguest.com
Loyalty
White-label loyalty engine Proven in hospitality

From the blog

All posts
Industry Insight

Validating against a moving target: versioning regulatory knowhow

17Sep

Three ways
we work

Client work is delivered through CET4Biz and the group's engineering teams. The products are ours.

Consult

Digitalisation strategy, business analysis, process design and programme leadership for rail, logistics, tourism and public services.

Engineer

Custom software systems, system integration and modern cloud architecture, delivered by senior teams.

Build

Our own products, developed in-house, taken to market and operated as businesses in their own right.

All services

Eight services, grouped by the three ways we work.

One operating company.
Two products of our own.

Bestforent Holding GmbH is the parent company. It owns one operating company, CET4Biz GmbH, and two software products developed within the group. CET4Biz is a separate legal entity with its own market, team and website; BrainTrainAI and MyVipGuest are products of the holding, not companies.

Operating company

CET4Biz GmbH

Consulting, engineering and system integration, specialised in European railway data standards: TEL TSI (formerly TAF/TAP TSI) and OSDM. Conformity checking, validation and the support that gets clients through third-party assessment. Vienna.

A Bestforent product

BrainTrainAI

AI-supported knowledge, validation and governance for heavily regulated industries. Developed and owned by Bestforent Holding, funded by the FFG. Used by RNE and TSGA in European rail.

A Bestforent product

MyVipGuest

White-label loyalty platform for hospitality, retail and luxury brands. Used by clients across Europe.

Where we
know the terrain

We are not sector-agnostic and we do not pretend to be. Domain knowledge is the difference between software that technically works and software that fits how an industry actually operates.

Transport and logistics

Our deepest specialisation: rail and European interoperability standards, from audit and conformity checking to implementation and long-term operation.

Tourism and hospitality

Loyalty, guest experience and the IT behind the reception desk. MyVipGuest grew out of this work.

Public services

Digitalisation programmes where accountability, documentation and procurement rules shape delivery as much as the technology does.

Other regulated industries. The approach behind BrainTrainAI – structure the rules, validate against them, govern the changes – applies well beyond rail. Energy, finance and any sector under a moving regulatory framework face the same problem in a different vocabulary.

Twenty-five years of turning complicated requirements into working systems.

Bestforent Holding was founded in Vienna to give structure to work that had already been going on for years: consulting and engineering for organisations operating under demanding regulation, mostly in European rail. What began as consulting became system development, and system development eventually became products of our own.

Today the group operates on three levels. CET4Biz delivers consulting and engineering to clients. BrainTrainAI and MyVipGuest are products we own, develop and take to market. And the holding provides the leadership, research direction and commercial structure that lets both sides support each other.

Dr. Seid MaglajlicFounder and Managing DirectorIT executive and consultant with more than 30 years in software engineering and digital transformation, over two decades of them in European rail. Former CTO of RailNetEurope; PhD in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology.

Let's talk.

Whether you are looking for a delivery partner, evaluating one of our products, or exploring a research collaboration – a short conversation is the fastest way to find out whether there is a fit.

Bestforent Holding GmbH
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1180 Vienna, Austria
office@bestforent.at