Titan Fitness Holdings Leverages Technology to Cut Costs and Support Ambitious Expansion Plans

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Wizard Accounting Solutions for Microsoft Dynamics GP Enables North America’s Emerging Gold’s Gym Franchisee To Realize 30% Cost Savings on Implementation

Vienna, VA, September 5, 2007 — Wizard Productivity Systems, LP (Wizard), a leading developer of software applications and services to enhance implementation productivity, and Titan Fitness Holdings, which will soon be the country’s premier Gold ’s Gym franchisee, together announced that Titan has selected Wizard to implement their Microsoft Dynamics™ GP (formally Great Plains) system, cutting their implementation costs by more than 30%. Wizard’s Custom Accounting Solutions Package is the only direct offering that includes all of the necessary hardware, software and training needed to promptly and completely implement Microsoft Dynamics GP.

“Over the past year we have been implementing an ambitious strategy that will quickly allow us to become the largest Gold ’s Gym franchisee in North America. A component of that strategy is leveraging technology to help manage our operations and create cost controls. This effort is a major element of our long term growth plan and our decision to use Wizard Accounting Solutions is a model example how this process will make both a qualitative and quantitative impact on our business. This project will quickly generate a real return on our investment, and allow us to concentrate on expanding our business,” said Jeff Skeen, CEO, Titan Fitness Holdings. “Wizard Accounting Solutions successfully streamlined the method of the selection and implementation of our Microsoft Dynamics GP system while breaking with the traditional model. This is a process which is typically cumbersome, costly and most of all unpredictable. Wizard gave us a piece of mind that it would be done the right way and on time, all at a low, fixed cost.”

Wizard Accounting Solutions allowed Titan to independently configure, automate, document and troubleshoot their Microsoft Dynamics GP implementation. Additionally, Titan’s Dynamics GP system will be hosted and managed entirely online by NaviSite, a leading provider of application management, internet infrastructure, and hosting solutions, dramatically reducing the demands on Titan’s IT infrastructure.

“I am thrilled that Titan Fitness Holdings chose Wizard Accounting Solutions for their Microsoft Dynamics GP implementation,” said Paul Farrell, President of Wizard. “We are very proud of the fact that we have created a superior package of hardware, software and services that takes the guesswork out of Dynamics GP implementations, allowing Titan to focus on their business.”

Wizard’s turnkey end-user package is purchased easily online or via phone at 1-800-939-4119 x701 for any number of users and offers three options depending on your desired level of training and implementation assistance, all needed hardware and software, and access to financing. To learn more about Wizard Accounting Solutions or place an order, call 1-800-939-4119 x701, or email sales@wizardus.com.

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About Titan Fitness Holdings
Established by former Gold’s Gym International executives, franchisees and a former PricewaterhouseCoopers director, Titan was founded to build one of the largest Gold’s Gym franchises in the world. Titan plans to grow it’s chain to more than 60 stores over the next several years by investing in franchisees with ownership in at least three locations in attractive growth markets; purchasing non-Gold’s chains and re-branding them; and building new stores to support its investments. The Titan executives have more than 50 years of direct experience in the fitness industry, including the private equity backed acquisition and expansion of Gold’s Gym International in 1999 with, then owner, Brockway Moran and Partners.

About Wizard Productivity Systems, LP
Wizard Productivity Systems (Wizard) develops software tools and services to enhance productivity. Its newest offering, Wizard Accounting Solutions for Microsoft Dynamics™ streamlines and simplifies Microsoft Dynamics implementations, all at a fixed price with world-class service. Wizard Productivity Systems LP is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

About NaviSite
NaviSite is a leading provider of applications management and internet infrastructure solutions for the mid-market. More than 1000 customers depend on NaviSite for application development, implementation and management on its Web infrastructure platforms in 14 state-of-the art data centers supported by 600 professionals. NaviSite specializes in the mid-market and provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities, packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in class technologies and a full suite of web-hosting and internet infrastructure options. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com.