Abbey National Expands Testing Access with Lexcel Interface Manager
Abbey National, one of the UK’s largest personal financial services
companies, has chosen Lexcel to consult and implement an enterprise-wide
platform that would enable desktop access to all testing personnel in the UK
and Spain
Abbey National’s Quality Assurance and Development personnel had been
utilizing Lexcel’s stand-alone X.25 and TCP/IP versions of Lexcel TestSystem® Network – LIS5 ISO for their LINK pre-certification and internal testing. With the acquisition of Abbey National by
Banco Santander Central Hispano in November 2004 and the extension of Abbey
National in the Spanish marketplace, they realized their testing platform also
required expansion. As a result,
Lexcel® Interface Manager™ was integrated into their environment to facilitate access to multiple Host
systems- creating a robust system that now enables transaction exchanges
between Host systems in the UK and Spain, and desktop access through dedicated
connections enterprise-wide.
As a testament to the success of the new configuration, two months
post-implementation, Abbey National was able to successfully prepare for and
execute LIS5 platform conversions and system validations utilizing their new
Lexcel Interface Manager architecture.
About Lexcel Solutions, Inc.
Doing business in North America, Europe and South America, Lexcel provides end-to-end payment testing software and services to third-party transaction processors, debit and credit networks, financial institutions, retailers, ATM/POS manufacturers and government organizations. The company works with such well-know companies as Heartland Payment Systems®, STAR® Network, Wincor Nixdorf, Mercury Payments®, United States Postal Service®, and WorldPayTM. Lexcel products reduce the time, cost and effort to perform transaction network test scheduling, maintenance and execution, regression and stress testing, and settlement testing for ATM, POS, EFT and EMV transactions. Clients of Lexcel improve the quality of their software development operations and ensure compliance with ISO8583 testing requirements while increasing processing system integrity. More information on Lexcel's end-to-end testing solutions can be found at www.lexcel.com.
