NCR vs PAR

NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation provides software and services worldwide. It operates through Banking, Retail, Hospitality, and Telecommunications and Technology segments. The Banking segment offers managed services and ATM-as-a-Service that allow banks to run their end-to-end ATM channels; software, services, and hardware, including interactive teller machines (ITM), as well as recycling, multi-function, and cash dispense ATMs; and digital banking solutions for financial institution's consumer and business customers. This segment also provides solutions for banking channel services, transaction processing, imaging, and branch services. The Retail segment provides solutions for retail industry comprising comprehensive API-point of sale (POS) retail software platforms and applications, hardware terminals, payment processing solutions, and bar-code scanners, as well as self-service kiosks, which consists of self-checkout (SCO). The Hospitality segment offers technology solutions to customers in the hospitality industry comprising table-service, quick-service, and fast casual restaurants. This segment provides cloud-based software applications for point-of-sale, back office, payment processing, kitchen production, restaurant management, and consumer engagement; and hospitality-oriented hardware products, such as POS terminals, order and payment kiosks, bar code scanners, printers, and peripherals. The Telecommunications and Technology segment offers maintenance, managed, and professional services using solutions comprises remote management and monitoring services for telecommunications and technology industry. The company also provides solutions for customer account opening and onboarding across digital, branch, and call center channels. NCR Corporation was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

PAR Technology Corporation

PAR Technology Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides point-of-sale (POS) solutions to the restaurant and retail industries worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Restaurant/Retail and Government. The Restaurant/Retail segment offers POS technology solutions, including Brink POS, an open solution that integrates with third party products and in-house systems; PixelPoint, an on-premise integrated software solution that provides a self-service ordering, back-office management, and enterprise level loyalty and gift card information sharing services; PAR merchant card payment services; Data Central, a cloud software platform of back-office applications; and PAR EverServ POS platforms. This segment also offers G5 wireless headsets for wireless communication; and installation, technical, and maintenance support services. The Government segment provides intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; systems engineering support and software-based solutions; satellite and telecommunications support; space and satellite control support; and information systems support services to the United States Department of Defense and other federal agencies. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New Hartford, New York.