Connectria Provides IBM WebSphere Hosting of Commerce Express Software For Harvard Bioscience
ST. LOUIS, MO (July 6, 2004) - Connectria Corporation today announced that it was awarded a multi-year
contract to provide complex
e-commerce hosting services for Harvard Bioscience (Nasdaq: HBIO) as a virtual extension of their
IT organization. Connectria provides HBIO with a sophisticated e-commerce environment consisting of an application built upon
IBM's WebSphere Commerce Express running on Microsoft Windows XP under a customized 24/7 service level agreement. This
environment will be used to deliver HBIO's online catalog of advanced scientific instruments. Harvard Bioscience will leverage
Connectria's advanced Internet and data center infrastructure, as well as its expertise in IT infrastructure technologies from
IBM and Microsoft. Connectria is a Premier IBM Business Partner and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider.
About Harvard Bioscience
Harvard Bioscience (Nasdaq: HBIO) is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of
specialized products, primarily scientific instruments. HBIO products are used to accelerate drug discovery and aid research
at pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, universities and government laboratories worldwide. The Harvard Bioscience
family of companies supply's the bioresearch community with a broad line of specialized products for neuroscience, physiology,
cell biology. HBIO has continually expanded its product line through invention or acquisition, selling products to thousands
of researchers in over 100 countries. HBIO has sales and manufacturing operations in the United States, the United Kingdom,
Germany, Austria and Belgium with sales facilities in Japan, France and Canada. For more information, please visit HBIO at
www.harvardbioscience.com.
About Connectria
Connectria is a profitable, growing and privately held provider of world-class IT Infrastructure Solutions targeted to large and
Midsized organizations worldwide. Connectria's business has been built through reinvesting profits and without any debt or
equity financing. Thus, Connectria is beholden to no one except our customers. Connectria operates world-class Data Centers,
Network Operations Centers, and Engineering Centers located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
From these facilities, Connectria operates as a virtual extension of our clients' IT organizations.
Connectria's services allow our clients to do more and spend less on their IT infrastructures, typically by 25 - 60% or more.
Connectria is staffed 24 hours, 365 days per year to build, monitor and manage mission critical IT environments for our clients.
Connectria offers an array of services including full outsourcing of IT infrastructures, managed hosting, disaster recovery,
remote monitoring, onsite facilities management, and custom software development and engineering services. For more
information, please contact Connectria at 1-800-781-7820 or visit us online at
www.connectria.com.
To learn more about Connectria or to receive a detailed quote on any of our services, please
contact us.
