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Please check this page frequently for information on Paragon's upcoming webinars, conferences, trade shows, and more.

Tradeshows

Visit Paragon's Deborah Spidle and Dana Blegen, booth 42, at the Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit, February 8-10 in Salt Lake City, Utah

Paragon Webinar

The EMV Acquirer Roadmap

Visa and MasterCard recently announced that acquirer processors must support EMV by April 2013. Major retailers, including Walmart and Home Depot, are pushing for EMV. Some US banks have introduced EMV cards for their foreign travelers since EMV is already established in most industrial countries. EMV is coming to the US. The question is, will your institution be ready?

View this roundtable discussion on the key decisions acquirers must make when implementing EMV. Panelists include EMV experts from Paragon Application Systems, D&D Consulting and SmartSoft Technologies.

Topics covered included:

  • Why now? Recent US Market Activities
  • Where do I begin? Starting the EMV process
  • How much will it cost? Budget & Resource Planning
  • How do I manage this major initiative? Breaking EMV implementation into manageable chunks
  • What's your advice? Hear from the experts

To view The EMV Acquirer Roadmap webinar, click here

 

Paragon Seminario de EMV

EMV 101: Lo que usted necesita saber para comenzar su implementación de EMV

Como una institución financiera, comercio o procesador enfrentando la migración de banda magnética en sus tarjetas de débito y crédito a tarjetas con chip EMV, usted podría tener preguntas acerca de EMV y cómo planificar su migración a EMV. Las tarjetas con chip EMV son fundamentalmente diferentes a las tarjetas de banda magnética y hay varias modificaciones a los dispositivos de pagos electrónicos, sistema del host y procesamiento de la transacción que se requieren para las tarjetas con chip.

En este seminario interactivo y gratuito EMV 101: Lo que usted necesita saber para comenzar su implementación de EMV presentado en Español por técnicos expertos de Paragon Application Systems, usted aprenderá acerca de las tarjetas con chip EMV y las formas de planificar la implementación de EMV. La agenda incluye:

  • ¿Por qué migrar a EMV?
  • Cobertura actual de EMV
  • Como prepararse para EMV
  • El proceso de migración (Estrategia y Análisis, el modelo de negocios, conformación del equipo, seguimiento del plan)
  • Recursos y sitios en línea que cualquiera puede acceder en forma gratuita
  • Como puede Paragon ayudarle en su migración a EMV
  • Preguntas y respuestas en vivo

Haga click aquí para obtener la grabación del seminario, EMV 101: Lo que usted necesita saber para comenzar su implementación de EMV

 

Paragon Webinar

Preparing for EMV: Advice for Issuers

To help you prepare for EMV migration, Paragon is offering a series of complimentary webinars for acquirers and issuers. Drawing on her years of experience assisting Canadian customers with EMV, Paragon’s Deborah Spidle will discuss different EMV options for the US and how to prepare for them. In October, Deborah presented an initial webinar focusing on what Acquirers need to know when considering EMV implementation. In this complimentary webinar, Preparing for EMV: Advice for Issuers, Deborah focuses on what Issuers need to know about EMV. Topics to be covered include:

  • Overview of EMV
  • EMV/chip market penetration
  • Why migrate to EMV?
  • Why prepare now?
  • What is the migration process? (analysis, strategy, business case, approval, building the team, following the plan)
  • The Canadian experience: lessons learned
  • Online sites/resources that anyone can access for free
  • How Paragon can help you with your EMV migration
  • Live questions and answers

To view the Preparing for EMV: Advice for Acquirers webinar, click here

 

Paragon Webinar

Preparing for EMV: Advice for Acquirers

To curb fraud, most major countries worldwide have migrated from magnetic stripe to chip card transactions using the EMV standard. The United States has not yet adopted EMV, but indications are that it is on the horizon. The US Department of Defense has issued a request for information regarding adding EMV and payment functionality to their Common Access Card which is issued to all employees and contractors of the Department of Defense.

To help you prepare for EMV migration, Paragon is offering a series of complimentary webinars for acquirers and issuers. Drawing on her years of experience assisting Canadian customers with EMV, Paragon’s Deborah Spidle will discuss different EMV options for the US and how to prepare for them. In the initial webinar, Preparing for EMV: Advice for Acquirers we will cover the following topics:

  • Why are countries migrating to chip cards?
  • Why prepare now?
  • What is the migration process? (analysis, strategy, business case, approval, building the team, following the plan)
  • The Canadian experience: lessons learned
  • Online sites/resources that anyone can access for free
  • How Paragon can help you with your EMV migration
  • Live questions and answers

To view the Preparing for EMV: Advice for Acquirers webinar, click here

 

Seminario web de Paragon: Introducción a EMV

Como Institución Financiera, comercio o procesador enfrentando la migración de las tarjetas de débito y crédito con banda magnética hacia tarjetas con chip EMV, usted necesita entender que es EMV y como lo va a afectar. Las tarjetas con chip EMV son completamente diferentes a las tarjetas tradicionales de banda magnética, y hay muchas modificaciones en sus dispositivos (ATM/POS), software en el host, y procesamiento en general que es requerido para las tarjetas con chip.

En este seminario web interactivo y gratuito presentado en Español por técnicos expertos en EMV de Paragon Application Systems, usted aprenderá acerca de las tarjetas con chip EMV así como algunas consideraciones clave que usted enfrentará en una implementación EMV. Vamos a cubrir temas como:

  • Antecedentes y porque los países están migrando hacia EMV
  • El flujo de una transacción EMV típica y como éste difiere con el flujo usando una tarjeta tradicional de banda magnética.
  • Información general de los pasos para una implementación EMV
  • Soluciones que le ayudarán con su implementación de EMV

El seminario también será grabado para poder verlo después del evento. Para solicitar el enlace a esta grabación, envíe un e-mail a latinamerica@paragonedge.com

 

Webinar: Tips to Improve ATM Testing with Paragon's ATMulator Plus ConfigBuilder

In this free interactive webinar presented by ATM testing experts from Paragon Application Systems, you’ll discover how you can more fully use ATMulator Plus ConfigBuilder to improve your ATM testing. We'll address topics including:

  • How to dynamically test host responses by overriding fields in a message
  • How to implement audio support for ADA compliance
  • How to create an ATM fault and view it using the message log
  • How to capture a visual and state flow record of a transaction using audit tracing
  • How to capture a Paragon communication server trace to aid in troubleshooting problems

If you are interested in a copy of the webinar, email marketing@paragonedge.com.

 

Paragon Best Practices Webinar: Pump Up Your Testing Performance with FASTest

In today's changing economy, developers and Q&A professionals are being asked to do more with the tools they have. Survivors in the current economy will find ways to increase productivity and thereby reduce costs for their organization. Paragon solutions can help.

Paragon has developed a series of Best Practices webinars to help customers mazimize the efficiency of their Paragon solutions. The first webinar focused on FASTest™, Paragon's QA and regression testing solution and was presented by Harold Pruitt. Topics covered included:

  • Maximizing testing bandwidth with automated, unattended testing
  • Increasing efficiency with well-formed messages imported from logs and traces
  • Enhanced issuer simulation by tracking card or account balances
  • Tackling EMV migration with Paragon at your side
  • Incorporating back-end testing by generating settlement records using FILEgen™

If you are interested in a copy of the webinar, email info@paragonedge.com and write Webinar in the subject line.


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