Open™ leader in the development and implementation of BOSS (Business and Operations Support Solutions) announced that its OpenSmartflex POWER BOSS™ solution was successfully implemented in Coopelesca -Cooperativa de Electrificación Rural de San Carlos- in Costa Rica.

Open™ solution OpenSmartflex™ will enable Coopelesca to implement an integral and flexible solution and develop a complete operation covering the areas of customer services, invoicing, field and network operation, meeting Latin American market needs.

Omar Miranda, General Manager of Coopelesca commented that “OpenSmartflex™ will allow for all activities related to service provisioning to become expedite and will make Coopelesca the first Company in Costa Rica to have its network assets inventoried. Furthermore, the solution will provide the necessary tools to venture in the provisioning of new services to its associates”.  

Hernando Parrot, Vice President of Business Development of Open™, highlighted that “Coopelesca is an important milestone for Open™ since it will provide the leverage needed for the consolidation of the public utilities’ sector in Costa Rica and in Latin America by providing support to the commercial and managerial success of the electric power and utilities industries”.

OpenSmartflex™ provides the electric power and public utilities industries with better control and agile customer service improving internal controls.

OpenSmartflex™ technological platform will outfit those companies that may eventually require support for the provisioning of new telecommunication and public utilities services such as cable TV, internet, telephony, potable water and natural gas. This is one of Open™’s solution capabilities. The flexibility of design with engines and configurators in its modules make it the most converging information system in the market, both in the commercial, operation and networking aspects.

It is worth mentioning that Costa Rica is one of the Latin American countries having high rural electrification indexes, by virtue of a well forecasted demand and a social responsibility with the Costa Rican population from the electric power generating and distribution companies.

About Cooplesca (www.coopelesca.com.cr)

AWith a tradition of 40 years, the Cooperativa de Electrificación Rural de San Carlos (Coopelesca) stands out in the electric generation and distribution market covering close to 95% of the service provided to the Northern Costa Rican Areas.

Coopelesca has close to 2.385 kilometers of electric networks, with over 37.000 associates, 55.000 subscribers, providing service to over 200.000 users. Soon to venture into new areas will be offering low cost Internet and Cable TV services, and will undertake feasibility studies for the construction of a new Hydroelectric project in the San Carlos Area. 

About Open™ (www.openinternational.com)

Open™ is a leader in the development and implementation of software for the telecommunications and public utilities services, focused in the Latin American market, became a trendsetter with its BOSS solution which successfully integrates BSS (Business Support Systems) and OSS (Operations Support Systems) functionalities commonly known as invoicing, customer support and operations.

Open Systems is the Colombian subsidiary of Open Systems International Corp., having presently more than fifty (50) successful implementations managing subscribers of different services in eight (8) Latin American Countries.

Marketing Group
Miami, July, 2006
info@openinternational.com

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