SofTrek Joins Center's Corporate Partner Program

SAN FRANCISCO -- SofTrek Corporation, an Oracle hosting and technology company, announced today at Oracle Open World that it has formalized membership in the Corporate Partner Program of the University at Buffalo's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.

SofTrek's Oracle hosting service, appitat, can provide infrastructure and expertise to support the technology required by the burgeoning life sciences and biomedical organizations in the Buffalo Niagara region, where the Center of Excellence is conducting translational research and supporting technology commercialization and new business development. SofTrek's appitat service affords companies an economical, low-risk approach to acquiring and implementing the Oracle Life Sciences platform.

"Partnerships with leading, local technology companies like SofTrek are an integral part of the mission of the Center of Excellence and we are pleased that SofTrek appreciated the opportunity in life sciences and decided to join our efforts," said Marnie LaVigne, Ph.D., director of business development at the Center of Excellence.

LaVigne added: "Many life sciences start-up companies want the robust benefits of the Oracle platform, but have budget or expertise constraints. We're pleased that a local company like SofTrek was able to come up with an affordable approach to offering the Oracle platform that can benefit other companies in the region."

SofTrek Corporation, creators of PledgeMaker fundraising software and appitatSM Oracle hosting service, was founded in 1987. An Oracle Certified Solution Provider, SofTrek is headquartered in a state-of-the-art datacenter in Amherst, New York. It has built a reputation as an Oracle application expert with secure reliable hosting of its Application Service Provider (ASP) and dominance of the online fundraising software market. For more information, visit www.softrek.com or call 1-800-442-9211.

The New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences was launched on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in 2002 to create a hub of life sciences expertise in Upstate New York. It has through more than $200 million dollars in funding from state, federal and philanthropic sources. With University at Buffalo as the lead academic organization, the center partners with Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. The Center of Excellence is actively building relationships with corporate partners in line with its scientific and economic-development mission.