Automated Software Testing
Paradigm Safeguard™ is a catalog testing software that helps you manage the quality and integrity of your product catalog. Self-service access to regression testing helps you identify all changes associated with your catalog updates, giving you time to address issues before they impact your bottom line.
Millions of Configurations Analyzed at the Speed of Your Business
As a manufacturer of highly configurable products, you know how complex catalog changes can be. And you understand negative impact that errors can have on your business. Paradigm Safeguard provides three different types of reports to help you find and correct errors without slowing down your catalog releases:
Large-Scale Regression Testing
Compare different versions of the same catalog and identify changes, including product questions and answers, pricing at the option level, and BOM changes. Consider a scenario where catalog changes allow the configuration of a product that can’t be produced.
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The error is released into production and dealers start quoting on it. It isn’t until an order makes it all the way to your ERP system that the error is caught. Valuable time is lost, reputational damage is done, and there’s potential that the homeowner may simply cancel the order altogether.
Catalog Version Testing & Analysis
Compare line-level pricing between two catalogs, or compare two price books within the same catalog. Consider a scenario involving a decimal place error, resulting in a configuration that’s now ten times more expensive than it should be.
Best case scenario, it’s a popular configuration and one of your dealers notifies you immediately. For a less popular configuration, however, chances are that it goes unreported for a long time, resulting in lost sales opportunities.
Our version testing clearly identifies catalog changes, so you can correct errors before the pricing change is released into production.
Catalog Quality Testing
This information helps you to set up the right product defaults to optimize catalog performance, and ultimately improve user satisfaction. Consider a scenario where certain products in your catalog are particularly time-consuming to configure.
Our catalog quality test clearly calls out problematically performing products and opportunities for optimization.
Meaningful Improvements to Your Business
Track Changes
Self-service access to regression reporting provides results that clearly identify changes to review.
Determine Impact
Consolidate thousands of potential catalog errors into one root cause and evaluate the market impact.
Eliminate Errors
Enhance dealer and consumer satisfaction by providing them with accurate product catalogs.
Error Prevention is Good for Business
Paradigm Safeguard makes maintaining an error-free catalog easier for everyone involved, saving time, money—and your company’s reputation.
Sales & Marketing
Avoid lost sales opportunities resulting from catalog errors. Paradigm Safeguard helps ensure that you’re offering the right options, at the right prices, every time.
IT Professionals
We understand that catalog accuracy often falls on the IT team to manage. Paradigm Safeguard greatly simplifies that task, freeing up time for other priorities.
Manufacturing Professionals
Paradigm Safeguard catches BOM output errors in your catalog before they make it into production, helping you prevent confusion and waste.
Convenient Catalog Testing
A Paradigm Safeguard subscription contains everything you need to find and resolve errors, optimize catalog performance, and create a positive experience for your dealers and end users.
Baseline Analysis
Checks for under or over-priced products
Detects discontinued products
Hard PK/.NET errors
Question & Answer Analysis
Added, changed, or removed answers
Added or removed questions
Questions locked or unlocked
Pricing Changes
Configuration Limitations
Added, changed, or deleted limitations
BOM Comparison
Line item, assembly part, instruction, instruction property, window
Results provided at the line level and display catalog (list) price
Calculation on overall percentage change in price
Calculation on how many lines increased, decreased, had no change, or had an unrealistic price
Recreate past quotes and orders to record speed
Processing answers for each question
Loading the configurator
Finish and exit processing
Number of questions
Analysis of timings relative to Paradigm base values
Analysis of answers to show which are chosen over 90% of the time