The Horizon partnership with Ispirer provides the most comprehensive, fastest and lowest cost route to Enterprise Application Platform Modernisation in Europe. Offering Sales, Support and Professional Service resources, the partnership fully supports the fast-growing demand for application and database consolidation and legacy migration to modern, flexible, lower cost technologies. Utilising Ispirer's signature solution, SQLWays™, the partnership provides the most technologically advanced solution for migrating databases and applications from legacy platforms to modern technologies; particularly Microsoft SQL Server. "Without question, this partnership allows us to deliver bigger and more complex projects across the EMEA region," said Wilson Bigg, Principal and co-founder of Horizon. "We have very strong connections with Microsoft and have worked closely with them on many Enterprise Modernisation projects. Many organisations find themselves struggling to manage a wide range of disparate databases and technology platforms as part of their evolving IT systems. As a result they are now paying huge amounts of money for support and licences for production and, nowadays, non-production databases. Our new partnership with Ispirer will help these organisations to optimise and update their IT platforms and licences, and to rapidly reduce costs."

"This is a valuable partnership for Ispirer™ said Dmitry Tolpeko, Ispirer co-founder and Product Manager. "We believe that the potential is enormous for both companies and we are looking forward to working together on migration projects across the EMEA region".

Commenting on the new partnership, Lars Mikaelsson, Microsoft Modernisation Lead for EMEA, said "When companies learn about the Microsoft Application Platform they quickly realise the benefits of moving to Microsoft for both increased agility and lower TCO. The challenge arises in moving the existing data to SQL Server as they migrate from their legacy platform. With the newly announced partnership of Horizon and Ispirer, our customers have a great option for helping them overcome the data migration hurdle."

About Horizon IT Consulting Services:

With offices in London and Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK, Horizon is an IT Consultancy that provides a broad range of innovative IT professional services for UK and European businesses and the UK Public sector. Founded originally in 2001, Horizon delivers expert Oracle & Microsoft Enterprise technology consultancy to IT Management, IT Outsourcers and Independent Software Vendors. An early adopter of Microsoft Enterprise technologies, Horizon is focussed on Application Platform Modernisation and Optimisation. We help our clients understand and embrace the benefits offered by new database and development technologies to reduce costs and optimise performance, and to deliver lower cost of ownership, shorter development timescales and AGILE development methods. For more information, please visit www.horizon-services.co.uk

About Ispirer Systems Ltd:

Ispirer Systems is an Independent Software Vendor that has taken the automation of database and application migration to unprecedented new levels. We help companies to modernise their database and applications infrastructure extremely quickly and at low cost, whilst preserving their investment in their existing systems. Ispirer specialises in the most complex and challenging - but also the most important - area of migration: the automated, customised and optimised conversion of human-written program code. Ispirer offers software solutions and services for automated cross-platform migration from legacy to the latest technologies developed by Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and MySQL.

Ispirer has been a world leader in database and application migration since 1999, and we are proud to have Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies such as Barclays Capital, Barclays Wealth, Citigroup, Chevron Texaco, J.P. Morgan, EDS, Shell, Fujitsu, Thomson and many others as our customers. Ispirer's international technology partners include Microsoft, Oracle, MySQL, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Terradata. For more information, please visit www.ispirer.com