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Bank of the West Selects AppLabs as its Independent Testing Partner

June 7, 2011
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PHILADELPHIA, LONDON and HYDERABAD, India, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ –
AppLabs (http://www.applabs.com/) today announced that retail banking leader
Bank of the West (https://www.bankofthewest.com/), is engaging AppLabs as its
Quality Management partner. Bank of the West chose AppLabs to help streamline
their Quality Management framework to enhance application health, business
performance and improve customer experience.

AppLabs will provide end-to-end testing services (http://www.applabs.com/
) for the Regional Banking Group’s IT division and help in establishing
standard QA practices across the group. To begin, AppLabs will focus on
manual functional and automation testing (
http://www.applabs.com/html/test-automation-services.html) of mainframe
applications and incentive compensation management applications using
AppLabs’ proprietary tools, methodologies and frameworks. AppLabs anticipates
improving the overall productivity of test cycles by 30 to 40% by leveraging
its proprietary eTAP(TM) (Enterprise Test Automation Platform)
(http://www.applabs.com/html/etap.html).

“Before selecting AppLabs we looked at plenty of outsourced technology
vendors -both domestic and foreign. But, we were looking for a testing
specialist to get the highest level of domain expertise in testing. We found
the right partner in AppLabs to take us from good to great in testing as we
continue to deliver innovative products and services to our customers. By
collaborating with the industry leader in testing, we will sharpen our own
focus on understanding and exceeding our customers’ needs”, said Andy
Olveira
, Vice President at Bank of the West.

“Bank of the West’s selection of AppLabs is testimony to the phenomenal
value AppLabs delivers as the Quality Management thought leader to the
financial services industry. We are excited to play a pivotal role in Bank of
the West’s success,” said John Carmody, Senior Vice President of AppLabs.

About Bank of the West: Based in San Francisco, $58 billion-asset Bank of
the West (http://www.bankofthewest.com) offers a full range of business,
corporate, personal, trust and international banking services. The Bank
operates more than 700 branch locations and commercial banking offices in 19
Western and Midwestern states. Bank of the West’s holding company, BancWest
Corporation, is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, among the six strongest banks in
the world, according to Standard & Poor’s.

    About AppLabs: http://www.applabs.com

    Contacts:

    AppLabs
    Vijayalakshmi Kara
    T: +91-40-2355-8000
       +91-984-908-3391
    E: Vijaya.lakshmi@applabs.com

    Bank of the West
    Jim Cole
    T: +1-415-399-8268
    E: jim.cole@bankofthewest.com

SOURCE AppLabs Technologies


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