Paragon Application Systems

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Paragon Application Systems has continually supported - and sometimes led - the payment industry through a period of unprecedented growth and change, including Y2K, EMV contact and contactless, the explosion of mobile and e-commerce, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paragon has continued to grow and expand across the globe by building and nurturing long-term relationships, delivering the highest levels of customer service, and creating long-term value for our clients.

From Day 1, the Paragon team has been focused on building long-term relationships and delivering value to our clients. Our founders recognized that in order for Paragon to succeed, we need to ensure that our customers and partners are also successful.

That means that we work closely with our clients as we strive to provide the highest quality products and services every day. Meeting our commitments and doing the right things have helped us build a blue chip customer base that includes many of the organizations that lead and drive the direction of the entire payments industry.

We partner with our clients to deliver innovative testing and certification solutions that reduce risk, improve quality, and enhance operational efficiency - helping to provide a superior customer experience on every transaction.

While shaping the evolution of the payments industry, we strive to make a positive difference where we live, work and play:

Paragon’s solutions enhance control, broaden access, and improve collaboration, creating a strong and adaptable platform that boosts the quality, efficiency, and profitability of your organization's testing procedures.

Paragon's simulators are compatible with leading ATM device manufacturers, host systems, and networks. They also offer product support for a variety of message interfaces for ISO, ATM, and POS formats, including Web Services and published APIs.

By providing robust product functionality and exceptional customer support, we assist our clients in expanding and innovating to adapt to evolving technical and business demands.

Solutions

At Paragon, our mission is to provide your business with a robust, flexible, and scalable testing platform that enhances the quality of your products and services, enabling you to offer the best possible payment experience to your customers.

We offer world-class testing tools and simulators, coupled with exceptional customer service, to elevate your payment testing capabilities. Our solutions help automate repetitive tasks, increase efficiency, measure system performance, and more. Paragon's solutions can be deployed both on-premises and in the cloud.

Automated Testing

Is the overhead of manual testing slowing down your people and your processes, restricting both growth and innovation?

Automation is the key to unlocking the full potential of your resources & energizing your payment testing operations!

Enabling your teams to be more efficient, more accurate and more productive, you can consistently deliver a superior payment experience on every transaction.

Solutions like Web FASTest and VirtualATM that facilitate the broad use of automation within the payments testing environment will help your organization realize a number of significant benefits:

Web FASTest Meets All Your Payment Testing Needs

No matter if your testing resources are down the hall, across the country or spread across the globe, all they need is a simple web browser for anytime, anywhere access to the Web FASTest environment.

Robust out-of-the-box functionality, along with centralized control of user roles, permissions, and data, means that your organization will be able to expand test coverage, improve quality, increase collaboration, and boost productivity.

VirtualATM® = Maximum Channel Performance!

Paragon VirtualATM delivers the most complete, accurate and economical way of organizing, managing and automating your ATM testing assets – using virtualized versions of your own ATM applications - and making them available for your testers to use anytime, anywhere.

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Automated Testing for Advanced ATMs

Consumers continue to depend on your ATMs for access to cash and other financial services - and you need to make sure that your machines are always up, available and secure.

In the complex and fast-paced world we live in today, it is no longer practical to rely on manual testing techniques to meet the changing needs of your consumers or your business - projects simply take too long and cost too much. It's time to automate and accelerate your ATM testing capabilities with Paragon.

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Certification Systems

Across the payment industry, the certification mechanism is in place to verify that members or clients can correctly format and securely process financial messages, as well as stay current with the never-ending stream of card scheme mandates and technology changes.

In this guide, we explore some of the key concepts and challenges with the current certification environment, while providing advice and guidance on how to work within, as well as improve the process.

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End-to-End Testing

The speed at which the payment industry is moving, as well as the need to deliver the best consumer experience on every transaction means that End-to-End testing of your payment ecosystem is more important than ever.

End-to-End testing can help verify that your software and systems work correctly from the beginning to the end of a particular payment transaction flow.

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Performance Testing

Performance testing is not just about uncovering bugs or finding bottlenecks in your processing environment - it is about ensuring that your products and services work perfectly on every transaction, anytime and anywhere.

A comprehensive performance testing strategy will enable your organization to consistently deliver a superior payment experience that builds consumer loyalty, driving revenue growth and profitability.

Paragon Web FASTest allows users to incorporate functional tests, automated regression testing, as well as performance analysis into a single platform that supports a variety of options including:

• Load testing
• Stress testing
• Scalability testing
• Endurance testing

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Regression Testing

Creating, scheduling and running automated regression tests is easy with Paragon’s Web FASTest solution. Any functional test can be incorporated into a regression run.

An automated regression testbed can identify problems much earlier in the development cycle, ensuring that new products and features do not introduce flaws into your mission critical payment systems.

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Products & Services

Featured Product

VirtualATM® | Maximum Channel Performance!

Virtualizing Advanced Function ATMs for precise simulation and comprehensive visibility into the ATM software stack. Preview ATM screens, receipts, and transaction flows. Test faults and error conditions. VATM enables automated testing anytime, anywhere with cloud-based control over user access and test data.

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