Open™, leader in BOSS (Business and Operations Support Systems) solutions development and implementations for public utilities and telecommunications industries, announces that Comercializar S.A. ESP, an electric power marketing company, has opted to begin the installation of Open™’s OpenSmartflex Power BOSS™ integrated software platform for the management of its operation and marketing processes.

OpenSmartflex Power BOSS™ is a specialized, integrated, software platform for the electric power sector, created with emphasis in customer care, consumption and energetic balance management, providing electric power companies with the tools needed for the solving of the critical issues of the sector such as control of losses, customer care, invoicing, collections, tariffs and management of work orders and field operations. OpenSmartflex Power BOSS™ compiles, in a single information system, Open™’s experience of close to twenty years in the Latin American telecommunications and public utilities markets.

Comercializar ESP is one of the largest electric power marketing companies of Colombia controlling close to 50% of the market of the large industrial customers’ sector. OpenSmartflex Power BOSS™ functionalities will allow Comercializar ESP to properly support the growth process and care of customers in a highly competitive market. Comercializar ESP must also provide support to domiciliary customers and is estimating an important growth by the end of 2006, beginning of 2007. OpenSmartflex Power BOSS™, in addition to assuring the best available practices for the electric power sector, on a worldwide basis, also integrates the operations and commercial platforms of the company. 

Hernando Parrot, Open™’s Systems Vice-President of New Business Development for Latin America commented: “The electric power sector is permanently seeking optimization and efficiency, and OpenSmartflex Power BOSS™ contributes to these goals with its integrated solution, which allows focusing in the priority issues needed for income generation in the regulated and non-regulated markets”

Hernando Parrot also emphasized the compromise and contribution of Open™ to the region’s electric power sector requiring mechanisms oriented towards the improvement of loss control and the optimization of managerial practices. Open™ has actively participated, during 2006, in large projects at Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EEPPMM) and Empresas Municipales de Cali (EMCALI), both unique models of utilities and telecommunications multi-services in Latin America, as well as in Coopelesca, an electric power enterprise of Costa Rica.  

About Comercializar S.A. ESP (www.comercializaresp.com)

Comercializar S.A. ESP is a company specialized in the marketing of Electric Power having large corporate customers, commonly known as non-regulated, from the different regions of the country and also serving regulated customers of the small and medium size industrial, commercial and residential sectors located in the Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Nariño and Tolima Departments.

Comercializar S.A. ESP has over five years experience in the provisioning of services through high technology, last generation, equipment which allows for metered hourly consumption, thus generating important savings.

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

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