Empower Business Solutions partners with Horizons International

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wed., July 1, 2009

Julian, CA - We are pleased to announce the partnership between Horizons International and Empower Business Solutions of Altoona, PA. Empower Business Solutions has entered into an agreement with Horizons to provide an integrated manufacturing solution.

As a solution, Horizons Manufacturing Suite (HMS) is a manufacturing application supporting process and discrete manufacturers. It is a system that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics GP.

The full reach of manufacturing information needs, from Bills of Material with specialty calculations for process and discrete manufacturers through Shop Floor Control and Scheduling, can be found in this product.

Manufacturers can simplify their inventory planning and production control needs with module selections that customize the product to specific industries or niches.

About Horizons:
With more than 18 years of continuous development of manufacturing software for Microsoft Dynamics GP, the products offered by Horizons International integrate seamlessly to offer solutions for batch, discrete and mixed mode manufacturers.

Traditionally this range of expertise was only found at the high end of the mid-sized manufacturing market, but with the addition of HMS Basic to our core group of products our functionality is now affordably available to support growing organizations who start with small budgets and as few as 2 employees. By enabling end users to fully utilize the built in benefits of Office and other integrations provided with Microsoft Dynamics GP it gives them the opportunity to better run and understand their business.

About Empower Business Solutions:
Empower Business Solutions is an established provider of business intelligence and data warehousing solutions whose mission is to empower a company and its employees by giving them the ability to have all the information they need in real time to make better decisions to drive increased profitability.

Empower Business Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Business Intelligence Partner and has been providing BI and Data Warehousing solutions for ten years.

For more information on Empower Business Solutions or Horizons, contact Empower Business Solutions via phone at 1 (814) 942-8777 or visit www.em-powered.com.

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Primary Contact:
Joe Hasson, Owner & CEO
Empower Business Solutions
The Devorris Center for Business Development
3900 Industrial Park Drive, Suite 5
Altoona, PA 16602
(814) 942-8777 ext. 116
joeh@em-powered.com

EMPOWER Business Solutions
The Devorris Center for Business Development
3900 Industrial Park Drive • Suite 5 • Altoona, PA 16602