Argotechno, Distributor of Galitt Testing Tools in Brazil
August 27, 2024
By: Payment Week
Boulogne (France), August 27, 2024 - Argotechno announced its alliance with Galitt to offer the whole range of testing software developed by Galitt, KaNest® simulators and VisuCard® products in Brazil. The distribution agreement allows Argotechno to sell and support Galitt’s simulation tools to facilitate testing and certification for any transactional system, such as smartcards, POS terminals, mobiles, payment networks and hosts as well as control and validation of personalization for any contact and contactless cards.
According to Alex Gama, Chief Operating Officer at Argotechno: “Argotechno offers secure transactions solutions, testing and certification services for the payment and correlated industries such as transport and mobile, resulting in a high level of customer satisfaction. Our partnership provides invaluable teamwork between Argotechno’s and Galitt’s Teams and leverages opportunities where both companies can act together to achieve customers’ needs. In order to meet the dynamic demands of our customers we keep strategic partnerships with world leading secure transaction technology companies, a field where Galitt is very well positioned and empowers our mutual cooperation.”
François Inglebert, Marketing Director - Testing Solutions, within Galitt, stated: “We are very pleased of partnering Argotechno in the Brazil market. They will leverage the use of our tools on transactional and payment systems in this very active country, due to their high business knowledge of this market and their recognized technical expertise.”
KaNest® simulators provide a unique customizable test tool to validate messages and interfaces between transactional systems, including card processing systems and stock exchanges. The degree of customization and flexibility provided by KaNest® gives it a leading position in the testing tool marketplace. KaNest®-ICC simulators aim at testing smartcard and accepting devices, having been recognized by the major international card schemes (i.e.: EMVCo, American Express, Discover Financial Services, Mastercard, Visa, etc.) as a tool for certification purposes. The KaNest®-File simulators allow users to test and validate file processing. It ensures that batch programs process files in accordance to given formats. VisuCard® products are a range of personalization validation tools, supporting contact and contactless cards while implementing testing plans provided by international brands, qualified by the major ones.
About Argotechno (www.argotechno.com) – Based in Sao Paulo (Brazil) with offices in Miami (United States of America) and Lyon (France), we provide services and support to electronic payment systems and secure transactions worldwide. We serve most Brazilian banks and the main credit card companies in Brazil and abroad. Argotechno became one of the main companies in quality assurance of payment systems’ secure transactions and new technologies.
About Galitt (www.galitt.com) – Galitt, a Sopra Steria company, offers consulting and services dedicated to payment systems and secure electronic transactions. With a full set of recognized skills and know-how, Galitt assists its clients during the whole project life cycle: experts from the Payment Consulting Unit with their innovative approaches shed light on strategic choices; consultants from the Payment Services Unit support customers implementing their payment projects; teams from Testing Solutions Unit develop test software and take an active role in test automation and certification processes; staff from the Payment Solutions Unit build and run added-value payment applications; trainers from the Payment Education Unit broadcast Galitt expertise and skills during their seminars.
Catti™, KaNest®, VisuCard®, G-Tokenizer™ and VisuBank® are software designed, developed and maintained by Galitt that may also host and operate them.
