July 21, 2002

Lexcel Solutions, Inc., the preeminent testing solution provider, has completed installation of a comprehensive end-to-end transaction testing system at CIBC. CIBC is a leading North American financial institution with more than eight million retail banking customers, 460,000 small business customers and approximately 8,000 corporate and investment banking customers. CIBC offers a full range of products and services through its comprehensive electronic banking network, branches and offices around the world.

Lexcel was given the task to successfully install all Test Systems and a proprietary TCP/IP communications server at CIBC and provide training for CIBC employees on testing software. The successful installation, which followed an extensive month long trial, includes the following testing methodologies:

• Transaction Origination (NCR ATM)
• Payment Network Processing (Visa ISO Debit, Visa SMS, Interac ISO)
• Host Simulation (IBM and AS400 HISO)

All applications are connected through a communications server that enables full transaction testing in legacy protocol via an interface distributed to remote desktops across CIBC’s corporate WAN. 30 client endpoints representing development and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) have been installed and will routinely access the suite of testing applications.

Pete Goebel, Lexcel Client Service Manager, who orchestrated on-site installation and training, noted that CIBC users were most positive with Lexcel’s ease of use, flexibility, and remote access. “Essentially, the Lexcel system enables users to perform full transaction testing from their desks with automated functionality and without having to commute back and forth to a test lab and perform manual card swipes to initiate transaction testing.” An additional benefit cited by Goebel was “the improved regression analysis inherent with Lexcel’s ability to pre-create script scenarios, run them over and over and automate the comparison process.”