Horizon and OpenPages
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Horizon Lines Selects OpenPages SOX Express for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Waltham, Mass. - March 27, 2006 - OpenPages, the leading provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management (GRCM) solutions, today announced Horizon Lines, LLC has selected OpenPages Sarbanes-Oxley Express (SOX Express) for its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives. Horizon Lines will deploy SOX Express to automate the company’s ongoing test and review of its internal controls documentation in order to reduce the time and resource costs associated with Section 404 and 302 compliance. Based in Charlotte, NC, Horizon Lines, LLC is the nation’s leading Jones Act container shipping and integrated logistics company, operating 16 U.S.-flag vessels on routes linking the continental United States with Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Horizon Lines maintains offices throughout the continental United States and operates port terminals in Anchorage, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor, Alaska; Honolulu, Hawaii, Guam and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Horizon Lines, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Horizon Lines, Inc., which trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HRZ. OpenPages SOX Express is an enterprise compliance management solution that reduces the time and resource costs associated with ongoing compliance for Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. SOX Express combines powerful document management, business process management and flexible reporting capabilities in an extremely easy-to-use environment that enables an organization to document financial controls and automate the ongoing test and review process. Completely web-based, SOX Express maximizes end-user participation with little training. Its dashboards can be used by project managers, documentation team members, internal auditors and external auditors to plan, document and test the internal controls framework of the company, and to attest to the financial statements. About OpenPages Founded in 1996, OpenPages develops enterprise governance, risk and compliance management (GRCM) solutions that streamline knowledge-intensive processes to improve corporate accountability, reduce disclosure process cost, enhance internal controls management productivity, and increase investor confidence. The company’s portfolio of solutions includes SOX Express, the market-leading enterprise application for automating the compliance requirements of Sections 404 and 302 of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and OpenPages ORM, an enterprise risk management software solution that enables entities to identify, analyze and manage operational risk on an integrated, company-wide basis. The world's largest corporations in diverse markets -- including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, media/entertainment, retail/consumer, energy, high technology, health services and life sciences -- rely on OpenPages for cost-effective, efficient, sustainable governance, risk and compliance management. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with international headquarters in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, and regional offices throughout North America. For more information on OpenPages' line of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management solutions or to register for an online demonstration, please call 781-693-5999 or visit www.openpages.com.
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