SciLink Introduces First Private-Channel Professional Networking Platform Tailored to Needs of Pharmaceutical and Scientific Communities

Business Wire, Nov 7, 2007

Announces Initial Corporate Customer

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- SciLink Inc., a privately held developer of professional networking tools for the scientific community, today announced the release of the first product designed to allow organizations of any size to host their own private professional network to stay in touch with personnel, customers and alumni. The company also announced that Biogen Idec, Inc. (Nasdaq:BIIB) has become SciLink's first customer for this new service.

"Almost 29 million Americans now work remotely at least one day per month, and experts estimate that approximately 100 million U.S. workers will telecommute by 2010," said SciLink's founder and CEO, Brian Gilman. "As this trend continues, it becomes increasingly more difficult for corporations to manage their relationships with employees, contractors and collaborators. SciLink is designed to fill this gap by providing the tools and platform necessary for companies of any size to start managing the most important asset of a business, their people. We are proud to work with Biogen Idec as our initial customer for this science-oriented networking tool."

"We are extremely pleased to be working with SciLink to provide Biogen Idec with these professional networking tools," said Connie Matsui, Biogen Idec's Executive Vice President of Knowledge and Innovation Networks. "As a global company with sites and people around the world, it becomes difficult to maintain an inventory of expertise. SciLink will effectively enable us to improve our awareness of internal expertise and increase our ability to network and collaborate, both within Biogen Idec and with the broader scientific community."

SciLink provides a professional networking platform specifically tailored for the scientific and medical community. Employing the SciLink platform, customers can build and visualize relationships among colleagues, collaborators, business partners, alumni and friends. By leveraging these relationships, SciLink users can find great talent, retain knowledge assets and increase productivity. SciLink's professional networking platform is unique in a number of aspects including its ability to help users to visualize their relationships and career paths over time by using Scilink's Tree of Science application and its scientifically oriented content push engine, named The Phoenix Suggestion Engine.

"Phoenix learns what you find interesting as you use it, and suggests content that you find important and interesting in real time," Gilman said.

About SciLink, Inc.

SciLink Inc. provides a professional networking platform specifically tailored to the needs of the scientific, medical and pharmaceutical development communities. SciLink's unique mix of scientifically oriented networking tools allows customers to enumerate internal expertise, find experts, and thought leaders in the research and medical community. SciLink - Science Connected, revolutionizes the way scientists network and communicate. For more information, visit www.scilink.com.