Through the merge of Gas Natural del Centro, Gas de Risaralda and Gases del Quindío, enterprises belonging to the Gases del Caribe Group, in Efigas S.A. E.S.P., a new strong company is incorporated which will play a major role in the natural gas distribution market becoming the fifth most large enterprise servicing this sector. In order to cope with this new challenge, Efigas opted for the implementation of Open Systems Corp. solution. Open Systems Corp is a leader in the development and implementation of BOSS solutions (Business and Operations Support Systems) for companies servicing the public utilities and telecommunications industries.

Under Open Systems platform Efigas consolidated its operations in the Colombian Departments of Quindío, Risaralda and Caldas, in line with its expansion plans. The fact that two of the above mentioned companies were already operating under Open's platform facilitated the technological merge. It is under this solution that the commercial and operative information on end users converges so that the different branches existing in different cities will have consolidated information which will result in an efficient service to over 300.000 subscribers and in a global view of the entire business, a key aspect for the company's strategic decisions.

"The flexibility and versatility of our technological solution allowed Efigas to perform the implementation and consolidation of the information merging technologically these companies. As a part of our commitment with our customers growth, we have developed tools that facilitate the operation", commented Laura Tobaría, Commercial Manager of Open Systems.

About Efigas (www.efigas.com.co)

Efigas S.A. E.S.P., a company dedicated to the marketing and distribution of domiciliary gas, provides natural gas services to over 300.000 subscribers in the Colombian Coffee Region. The operation has fixed assets of over COL $ 240.0 million and sales of over 200 million cubic meters of natural gas.

About Open International Systems Corp. (www.openinternational.com)

Open International Systems Corp., leader in the development and implementation of specialized software solutions for the public utilities and services and for the telecommunications industries. Open is focused in the Latin American market and has obtained worldwide recognition for its BOSS approach, commonly known as management of the commercial and operations processes, which integrates the BSS (Business Support Systems) functionalities with OSS (Operations Support Systems) functionalities, commonly known as invoicing, customer care and operations.

Open, as of today, has over 70 successful implementations in over 14 Latin American countries, servicing the fixed and mobile telephony, vehicle security, cable television, electric power, gas, water and sewage and environmental sanitation sectors.

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