Alogent Announces Full IBM CPCS Integration With Sierra Clearing 3.3.

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2001

Company signs partnership with Gilson & Associates

Alogent Corp. - a leading developer of payment transaction processing solutions for global financial institutions and remittance processors - today announced Sierra Clearing 3.3, which features full IBM CPCS integration through Alogent's partnership with Gilson & Associates.

"With this release, we've established advanced and fully functional co-existence with the legacy check processing system in use at up to 80% of the tier one banks in the U.S. Our interface to IBM CPCS - as well as to Unisys IPS and ICPS - demonstrates the benefit of Sierra Clearing's openness. We add value to these mainframe payment processing systems by optimizing their basic functionality and adding Internet speed and efficiencies," said Brian Geisel, founder and CEO of Alogent Corp. "It's part of our overall strategy for helping large financial institutions gradually move from paper to electronic payments."

Alogent's partnership with IBM systems integrator Gilson & Associates was essential to fully qualify Sierra Clearing 3.3 - Alogent's back office processing solution for central operations - with the IBM CPCS (Check Processing Control System). Alogent is also a member of IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers and is an official IBM Business Partner. Alogent's use of middleware components such as IBM MQSeries are key to ensuring that its products can be scaled up or down as needed in central or branch processing, as well as distributed across an enterprise.

"As both an IBM and Alogent partner we are excited to assist in bringing these technologies together. The integration firmly marries IBM's core CPCS platform with Sierra's advanced distributed image capture features," said Jim Fancher, president of Gilson & Associates. "This offers our customers a very reliable and extremely flexible check clearing solution."

Jon Gilson, founder of Gilson & Associates, adds, "We've put Sierra Clearing through a long, hard evaluation process and are convinced that it is a technically superior product. We believe it will help us deliver processing innovations to our IBM CPCS customers."

Sierra Clearing 3.3 also includes the U.S. version of Unisys A-series IPS, as well as complete support for the Microsoft platform, with SQL 2000 for increased performance and Windows 2000 for additional clustering capabilities and workflow distribution among multiple servers.

Sierra Clearing is Alogent's payment processing "central solution" for high-volume financial institutions and billers. Sierra Clearing makes payment processing more efficient and profitable by providing flexible workflows and reducing exceptions with image-enabled technology. Alogent's supplemental, value-add strategy provides dramatically enhanced processing efficiencies through Windows NT/2000 integration with core legacy processing systems. Sierra Clearing optimizes current investments in existing infrastructure, while offering many new features and enhancements and streamlining the underlying architecture for the next step of emerging payment technologies.

Alogent develops and delivers the Sierra(R) open-architecture payment processing software solutions to financial institutions and billers to reduce costs and enhance revenues. Alogent's front and back office image and MICR payment solutions are scalable, web-deployed, and based on XML and the Microsoft DNA architecture. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.alogent.com or contact Alogent Corporation, 4005 Windward Plaza, Second Floor, Alpharetta, GA. 30005. Ph: 678.966.0908, ext. 888; Fax: [phone].

Gilson & Associates, a leader in item processing technology, provides software and systems services to large financial institutions around the world. Offering's range from CPCS related products to professional services that include product architecture, systems integration, and technical support. For more information, please visit the company's web site at http://www.gilsonassociates.com, or contact G&A at 1702 Abbey Court, Alpharetta, GA. 30004. Ph: 770-664-6562; Fax: [phone].