Core Services and Kodiak Systems Celebrate 8th Year of Strategic Partnership

- Leading ASPs Combine Forces to Provide a Comprehensive Microsoft Exchange and Oracle E-Business Suite Hosted Solution

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Services and Kodiak Systems have set a standard in strategic partnerships between two leading solution providers. By collaborating to provide a more complete offering to their mutual flagship clients such as CareOne and Spring Hills Assisted Living, Core and Kodiak have proven success in their partnership.

As Oracle Applications customers both CareOne and Spring Hills Assisted Living became early proponents of Core's Oracle Hosting Service. As cost-conscious healthcare providers both CareOne and Spring Hills have also strongly embraced Kodiak's Support Application Hosting. The combination of these two services has provided CareOne and Spring Hills with a complete hosted software solution. Both organizations work exclusively with Core and Kodiak as extensions of their lean IT departments.

"We find the hosting model to be essential to managing our ongoing costs while providing robust software solutions to our employees," says Tom Vellis, CFO of Spring Hills LC. "We don't have the manpower or resources to run Oracle E-Business Suite or Microsoft Exchange on our own, and Spring Hills has been very successful leaning on Core and Kodiak to be our solution experts," he explains. "In my mind, this is a 3-way strategic partnership, and we intend to extend our contracts with both providers well into this millennium."

"Core has successfully leveraged Kodiak Systems' expertise with hosted exchange for the Java based Workflow Mailers in the E-Business Suite configurations," says Bimal Doshi, Vice President of Operations at Core. "The successful partnership between Core and Kodiak has enabled clients to realize the benefits of the seamless integration of the EBS and Exchange products to communicate alerts and notifications for its clients, users and suppliers."

Core is also able to offer heavy bandwidth consuming client applications (the 11.5.9 version of the Configurator Developer, client-based discoverer, ADI) on Kodiak's hosted Windows terminal servers for faster performance.

About Spring Hills Assisted Living Communities:

Founded in 1999, Spring Hills Assisted Living Communities is an assisted living community that provides spacious, cost-conscious accommodations for senior citizens and others in need of high quality healthcare in a safe environment. Spring Hills owns and operates assisted living communities in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, and Virginia. Each Spring Hills community provides nursing, physician, exercise therapy, mental health, and clinical laboratory services onsite to residents. By providing expansive services, imaginative programs and spacious, tasteful, and affordable Assisted Living housing, Spring Hills leads the way in meeting the changing needs of senior adults. Visit our website at: www.spring-hills.com.

About Kodiak Systems

Kodiak Systems is a privately held company and a provider of comprehensive, outsourced, information technology solutions. Our service is comprised of the hosting and delivery of all user software applications, data-backup and storage, help desk, and the providing of Information Technology guidance. Operating since January 2000, Kodiak Systems' corporate offices and data centers are located in Piscataway and Carteret New Jersey, with a sales office in Dallas Texas. Kodiak Systems currently provides application hosting services to over 100 customers with over 4500 users and has maintained profitable operations since inception. Kodiak Systems is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has no ownership ties to any software vendors or other business entities. Maintaining this independence is vital to providing the highest levels of service to all customers.

About Core Services Corporation:

Core Services Corporation, an Oracle Certified Partner, delivers Oracle-based business operations solutions and information systems and support to clients worldwide by providing award-winning Oracle Consulting and Oracle Hosting Services. Additionally, Core Services is exclusively authorized to sell and service Oracle Special Edition. Focused exclusively on Oracle Applications since 1990, Core Services also offers Managed, Remote DBA, and Disaster Recovery services in addition to Oracle Consulting Services for new Implementations and Upgrades. For more information about Core Services, visit our website at http://www.coreservices.com.

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    Director of Marketing and Events
    Core Services Corporation
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