Horizontal Integration is excited to announce the re-launching of it's company website on the next version of Sitecore's Content Management System (CMS) software version 6.0 (Crestone). Sitecore finished the Crestone beta program at the end of June 2008 and announced plans that it would begin shipping its new CMS platform at the beginning of July 2008. Horizontal Integration along with a select group of customers were choosen to participate in the rollout of the beta versions of Crestone.

The Horizontal Integration development has gained considerable knowledge on Sitecore's next generation CMS software and decided to be the first to deploy an actual working website on top of Crestone. Our content writer has given favorable feedback on the new inline editing capabilities and timesaving features of Crestone.

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As featured in the Minnesota Business magazine - March 2008 Edition 
By Elizabeth Millard 

Horizontal Integration creates a diverse yet fused trio of services to help clients make the most of the IT and business blend.

Investors know that to achieve long-term growth, stability, and success, they should diversify their portfolios. For Edina-based Horizontal Integration, they believe the same principle applies to their service offerings and operations.

Combining interactive marketing with enterprise business application development and staffing services, the firm is a consulting shop with increasing clout. Not only can clients understand how technology is affecting their business, they can also benefit from software application development, and a pool of IT-savvy and business-sharp candidates that can continue honing strategies after Horizontal Integration’s engagement. The fusion is a crucial one in the current corporate environment, where mission-critical applications don’t just hold data in a static form, but also act as dynamic drivers of customer retention, marketing strategy, sales efforts, and business goal creation. Executives may still be the drivers of overall operation, but applications that can bring data together and supply a holistic..........

Horizontal Integration announces the launch of www.frbservices.org. The Federal Reserve Bank, the central bank of the United States of America was founded in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. In addition to its role in monetary policy and banking supervision in the US, each Federal Reserve Bank acts as a bank for the banks and as a fiscal agent or bank for the federal government.

Horizontal Integration successfully managed the re-design, development and delivered another on-time and on budget launch of the new website for the Federal Reserve Bank.

Horizontal Integration announces the launch of www.uponor-usa.com. Uponor, formerly know as Wirsbo, is a billion dollar manufacturer and supplier of plumbing, heating and fire safety systems for residential and commercial applications with operations in more than 20 countries throughout the world.

Horizontal Integration successfully managed the design, development and delivered another on-time and on budget launch of the new look and feel for www.uponor-usa.com. The site was developed from scratch on the Microsoft .Net platform running in a VMware virtual environment utilizing an Oracle database backed and managed by an enterprise content management solution from Sitecore.