Philadelphia, PA - September 23, 2003  As part of a broad introduction of capabilities architected to simplify understanding of complicated source code in a variety of languages, Lexient announced major enhancements to Surveyor, the groundbreaking source code understanding tool for corporate software development teams. These technology advances for the industry's leading multi-language reengineering and visualization solution are targeted directly at customer demands for a stronger tool to visualize interactions between source code in different languages, and to ease integration, conversion, and maintenance efforts.

"Customers tell us that Surveyor's most important benefit is to instantly provide them with an overview perspective, in the form of a navigable visual map, of the interactions within their source code", said Ward Geise, Lexient's President.  "Today, more development teams are working under short deadlines to support changes to large bodies of source written in several languages - Surveyor enables them to see at a glance what's going on without having to read the source - a tedious, and time-consuming process at best."

Building upon previous releases of Surveyor, the newest version supports 15 of the most popular languages, including C/C++, Java, and COBOL.  Today's announcement, which extends Surveyor's position as a powerful tool that enables continuous software innovation includes:

Understanding:
Instant answers to challenging development questions are produced through Surveyor's full semantic analysis of source code which creates a navigable, interactive visual map of source via an enterprise-wide meta-database.

Management:
Better oversight of large teams is enabled by Surveyor through metric evaluations, facilitated code reviews, and instant documentation.

Collaboration:
Better communication among Senior and Junior Developers and between development teams is fostered through Surveyor's interactive overview, structure, and logic flow modes which promote knowledge sharing.  Project milestones are more rapidly accomplished due to enhanced understanding and collaboration between stakeholders.

About Lexient Corp.

Lexient Corp. is a provider of software visualization and understanding tools.  Lexient's Surveyor product enables development organizations to perform 20-40% more maintenance tasks in the same time while lowering error rates. Visit http://www.lexientcorp.com for more information or to download a trial version.