Parallel Technologies provides world-class solutions in the arenas of insurance litigation management and comprehensive systems testing.

ParaServ™

This aspect of the Parallel Group, brings together a unique blend of managerial talent and experience to develop a litigation management and cost control system, formed to leverage the burgeoning opportunity of electronic commerce utilizing the Internet.

The subject of litigation costs is covered continuously in print media, such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine, and on television. Legal publications, business magazines and business-to-business publications validate the demand for cuts in, and control of, litigation costs, and effective case information management systems.

The insurance industry currently manages a disproportionate amount of the litigation that takes place today. Slowly but surely, insurance companies are beginning to demand the same sort of discipline of their outside legal firms as they demanded of the medical profession twelve years ago. It is therefore obvious to PSLLC that the legal equivalent of managed health care is soon to come.

The system is comprised of a client/server model utilizing industry-standard relational database technology and access methods, able to provide state-of-the-art communications and processing utilizing advanced technology such as the Internet. It is also capable of providing an enhanced delivery mechanism that ultimately revolutionizes cost reduction and electronic invoicing for legal services.

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Business Focus

Parallel Technologies provides services to its clients for a small fee (e.g. the ADP model of payroll services). There are many advantages to both clients and the company for this business model.

One of the intentions of the Parallel Technologies system is to compile a database to allow for trend analysis and statistical calculation to determine whether to settle cases early or move to alternate dispute resolution (ADR). Moreover, the intense competition among law firms has led to the marketing potential that some law firms themselves will initiate the use of the Parallel Technologies system to demonstrate their expertise and introduce themselves to prospective clients. Parallel Technologies can deliver the technology and quality of service today.

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The Market

The Company expects the market for this kind of service to grow exponentially. This is due in part to the greater acceptance of electronic commerce in business, but also because similar services have been shown to be extremely effective.

To date, few insurers require use of this type of service and few law firms have adopted this kind of tool to sharply increase productivity on their own initiative. The ParaServ system is a risk- free, non-intrusive approach to Litigation Management and Cost Control.

The main objective of developing the ParaServ system is to help insurance companies to reduce cost. These are companies who direct a disproportion share of litigation cases to law firms (perhaps 50% of the $75 billion in the country). This system is also developed with Fortune 500 companies in mind that also have similar relationships and the largest corporate law firms.

Competitive Strengths

As all face increasing pressure to reduce costs, all will benefit from filtered invoices, replacement of paper-intensive manual processing, the elimination of day-to-day operational redundancies, and the Parallel Technologies system's capacity to allow access of authorized users to updated invoicing matter. These functional assets foster effective team management of invoice information and decision making.

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ParaTest

Viewed by experts as one of the leaders in testing, Parallel is ISEB Certified, and offers a range of testing services including:

ISEB Certification

Parallel was the first company in the U.S. to secure ISEB (Information Systems Examination Board) Certificate. Through ISEB, The British Computer Society, a leading independent professional body, established a set of technical ethical standards for the IT industry that are similar to those of ISO 9000. As a result, ISEB certification is expected to emerge as the accepted standard for Testing by the IT industry worldwide.

ISEB is an assurance to our clients that our test processes conform to a recognized series of standards that are completely auditable. As ISO 9000 has become a set of global quality system standards recognized worldwide, so ISEB is likely to become the accepted standard for Testing. Soon more and more companies and organizations are going to be required to prove that they can supply their products and services through a recognized quality system before contracts can be placed with them. Until then, Parallel is currently the only known company in the U.S. that can provide the adherences to best practices for testing, which is acknowledged by the IT industry.

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Full Integration Testing

Testing a series of applications in a test or production environment to ensure that interaction between each application during normal production processing should be as expected without failure of system due to dates, currency changes or other such changes. Programs that use the same data such as those that create, modify, delete and report on a particular record type represent a good integration group, and are usually tested together. This process also ensures that external interfaces are tested at this stage of testing.

Application Based Testing

This type of testing tests each application as a separate module without any external data being fed into the application during processing. The test is to ensure that the logic and flow of data within the application produces the expected results and provides an audit trail.

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Independent Validation & Verification (IV&V)

In the past, the complexity and effort required to perform testing using conventional approaches and tools has made an IV&V Test Factory impractical due to cost and time factors. However, revolutionary new tools and techniques have changed this and allows testing to be conducted at an offsite facility and the system moved back into production at a fraction of the cost of conventional testing methods in a fraction of the time.

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Web Load Testing

Web load testing is performed to anticipate the performance of your web application by simulating the workload of any real-world application or benchmark, or creating a completely artificial workload to stress the system in a number of ways. In doing so, the goal is to highlight the bottlenecks caused by any deficiencies in memory, processor speed or disk I/O of the web server, other dependent database or application servers, network bandwidth and application processing.

Prior to running web load tests, it is critical to have an in-depth understanding of the components that make up the web site and of the transaction patterns that are processed by the web applications. Parallel is experienced in determining the critical scenarios to be used as a basis for creating the workload simulations for your web site.

All testing measures the throughput performance of the system while stressing it with a controlled workload. Outputs are documented and tests are fully repeatable, allowing the effects of changing a web component to be objectively evaluated.

Load testing allows bottlenecks to be isolated and components tuned to the optimum configuration that will provide a solution that is effective for you and your customers.

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Disaster Recovery Testing

Most organizations rely heavily (85-90%) on computer systems. According to a survey conducted by a research company, when catastrophic data loss occurs, at least 43% of companies never re-open, and 29% close within 2 years. The effect can be devastating for businesses financially, for example, the average hourly impact of data loss on the retail brokerage business amounts to $6.45 million.

Industry experts suggest that less than 10% of companies have no solid, tested plans for recovering their computer systems in such a disaster, and yet data doubles each consecutive year.

Because of the distributed computing environment, backup processes have become more complex and require a high degree of expertise, a single backup of a computer or a few computers can no longer assure that a complete and thorough backup of data has been attained. Parallel, through its experience gained working with companies on many computer development projects, has devised a methodology referred to as Parallel Equivalency Testing (PET) for conducting thorough testing no matter how complex the system. PET is a parallel test method to prove that the recovered system works to the same level of tolerance as the production system within the time-span of a normal DR test. The entire system is run through a rigorous series of disaster recovery test scenarios to determine the effectiveness of the backup and to ensure that data can be restored to its original state prior to the disaster. This technique is to reassure management that a solid, proven procedure is in place to protect their business should such a disaster occur.

Please contact us to see how we can help you to safeguard your investment.

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Parallel Tools

Parallel Technologies has assembled a sophisticated set of Testing Tools. By using an accelerated testing methodology, Parallel is able to provide a cost effective method that is not language dependent. These tools can detect specified fields, age data, perform comparisons and provide auditing and documentation tools to identify and document problem areas, and ensure that all systems perform as expected and can be managed, monitored and maintained without extensive prior system knowledge.

Tool Name Description
Data Analyzer Identifies all dates in the data files, as opposed to date identification in the source code, a method commonly utilized by remediators. This allows for validation of the dates found by the remediators.
Data Ager A sophisticated tool that can age data as well as expand or unexpand files. This technique is one of the cornerstones of parallel testing.
Detailer A comprehensive tool that exposes imitate details of selected data files.
Smart Compare A smart comparison tool that allows for complicated comparison criteria
Smart Merge A merge and rearrangement tool that can create all possible combinations of key and data.
Encrypt An encryption tool that allows client to encrypt sensitive data before testing and unencrypt utilizing secret lock.
Test Coverage Analyzer An auditing tool, which details the paths of a program that, was triggered, including number of hits, during a run.

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