The Software Development Center of Open™, a leading company in B.O.S.S. (Business and Operations Support Solutions) development and implementation for telcos and utilities, was granted the CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) Level IV, an appraisal that provides international recognition to the business model and the best practices in the software development industry.

CMMI Level IV is awarded by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, and evaluates process maturity and organizational development levels of the information technology sector companies. Level IV in CMMI is one of the highest appraisals any company may obtain in the information technology and software development sector. Less than 50 companies worldwide have been appraised such level to date.

To obtain the CMMI Level IV, Open™ conducted one of the most thorough appraisals defined by Carnegie Mellon University, the SCAMPI Class A appraisal method, under the highest strictness, where more than 400 business practices were reviewed. It is worth noting that, having obtained Level IV, Open™ Systems is positioned above 75% of the companies which decide to formally adopt this international model.

“CMMI Level IV represents to Open™ Systems an endorsement to the business practices and the quality of OpenSmartflex™ products, which have been under development for 19 years and have brought Open™ Systems to the industry leadership in specialized software for telecommunications and public utilities in Latin America,” said Benito Pardini, Director of Open™’s Centro de Desarrollo de Software.

William Corredor, President, Open™, remarked that “the CMMI Level IV reinforces Open™ Systems positioning in eight Latin American countries where our solutions manage subscribers of different utilities, and it confirms the company's commitment to the development of products that cause a positive effect on the improvement of its customers’ business.”

About CMMI – Carnegie Mellon University

The Capability Maturity Model or CMMI is a method for definition and management of the process an organization carries out. It was developed for software-related processes by Carnegie Mellon University, for the SEI (Software Engineering Institute.)

SEI is a research and development center sponsored by the Department of Defense of the United States of America, managed by Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon University is located in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and is one of the most outstanding centers of higher research in the US for the area of informatics and robotics.

It originated from the Carnegie Technical Schools founded in 1900. They turned into the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912, which was incorporated into the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in 1967 to become to Carnegie Mellon University.


About Open™ (www.openinternational.com)

Open™, an industry leader in specialized software for the telecommunications and utilities segments, has focused on the Latin American market and achieved a differentiator out of its BOSS approach that integrates the most usual BSS (Business Support Systems) and OSS (Operations Support Systems) functionalities such as billing, customer care, and operations.

Open™ Systems is the Colombian affiliate of Open™ Systems International Corp., with more than 50 facilities currently installed to manage subscribers of different utilities at eight Latin American countries.

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Bogota, May, 2006
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