Web Development for CIBC

"The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
(CIBC) is a leading North American financial institution with more than eight million personal banking
and business customers. CIBC offers a full range of products and services through its comprehensive
electronic banking network, branches and offices across Canada, the United States and around the world."

Roles

Web Developer
Report Developer

Technology

Active Server Pages (ASP)
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 (VB)
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
Seagate Crystal Reports

Project Description

I was hired by the Visa department of CIBC to work on the Mondex pilot. Mondex was CIBC's first
foray in to electronic cash. As part of this pilot, CIBC needed a management and reporting tool
that I built using Visual Basic and Crystal Reports. The select reports screen (right, top) shows the
main entry screen to the reporting portion of the management system. Users were able to select the
report as well as specify the report frequency and date.

Intranets were just beginning to become popular in 1998 so convincing senior members of my team that
distributing reports via the intranet was a good idea took some effort on my part. However, after some research followed by a presentation, I was able to demonstrate that making the Mondex

reports available on the intranet would allow the Mondex team to retain control of the data while
freeing them from the responsibility of responding to the numerous requests for reports from upper management.

The reporting site (right, bottom) combined Active Server Pages and Crystal Reports to deliver ad-hoc and pre-designed reports to the executives interested in the Mondex electronic cash initiative. A sample list of pre-designed reports is shown to the right. The ad-hoc reports (not shown) allowed users to specify the start date, end date, retail category, and geographic location.