The QUAXAR Data Center opens for business, with more than 100 employees.

Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz. April 12, 2004 – Today, QUAXAR Mexico began operations in the QUAXAR Data Center in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz. The Data Center will provide development and execution of support services for business processes such as data entry, digitization, software development and data processing for QUAXAR's clients in Mexico, Latin America and the United States. The QUAXAR Data Center has multiple workstations that allow the more than 100 employees to work on a variety of tasks involving the use of information technology to solve business problems for their clients.

“The QUAXAR Data Center in Coatzacoalcos allows us to offer the highest quality at the best cost for these services, particularly in software development, digitization and data entry”, says Leonel Azuela, originally from Coatzacoalcos, and Managing Director of QUAXAR. In the event that certain projects or documents require digitization in Mexico City, for security reasons, we can also provide that service. Unfortunately, the cost is approximately double the cost for data entry in our Veracruz Data Center. There are few cases where this applies, however, and in general 5% is the maximum amount of information or development that needs to be dealt with at our clients' offices.

At QUAXAR we currently have a team of between 35 and 50 people in Mexico City, working on projects dedicated to inventory management and data recovery. We commonly have our Mexico City teams working at our clients' offices, given that our clients generally have this information in archives located within the metropolitan Mexico City area.

Once the data inventory has been classified, cleaned and recovered, the process moves to data/information management, which may be digital or non-digital. In the case of non-digital data, digitization takes place of only that information that needs to be held in digital format. Digitization takes place in Coatzacoalcos, and we have a logistics and transport system in place to guarantee the most efficient data entry process, always maintaining the security and integrity of the information.

QUAXAR and MicroBanx to offer the COBIS solution to private and public microfinancing companies in Mexico and the United States.

In July 2004, QUAXAR, in conjunction with MicroBanx, began to offer the COBIS solution (Cooperative Open Banking Information System) to microfinancing clients who require software for the management of their financial activities. The two companies will offer a complete package of consulting services, technology integration and software to manage credit origination and management. QUAXAR's team, with experience in consulting services and training at multiple microfinancing institutions in Mexico, will expand its services beyond its consulting services in best technology practices. After exhaustive research into software solutions for microfinancing companies, QUAXAR found COBIS to be the ideal product due to its functionality, technology and history. COBIS has been implemented in more than 70 projects in 13 countries in the Americas, and is widely recognized as the most effective tool for microfinanciers. Javier Ballesteros, Director of QUAXAR's microfinancing practice says “MicroBanx allows us to offer a complete solution to our clients, using the best software application in the market”. Bill Moss, Managing Director of MicroBanx agrees that “with QUAXAR we will guarantee the expansion and successful implementation of our application in Mexico and United States”.

Implementation of the SIMMER is concluded at over 80 CFE generating plants.

The need to modernize CFE operations using information technology motivated the Generation Division to develop a software application to monitor and measure electricity generation in its generation plants.

During 2001, the SIMMER, or System for Monitoring and Measurement of Regional Energy, was developed and installed in more than 30 generation plants in northern Mexico, through the services of QUAXAR MEXICO. The SIMMER is a system developed in JAVA, which uses Web technology to access information stored in a database. Its success was such that in 2003 CFE decided to implement the system in all its generation plants, beginning with those of highest capacity.

To execute an implementation of such magnitude, various functional, technical and practical courses had to be given on a national level. Installation took place in technologically diverse and varied generating plants, with a number of different communication architectures.

Among the benefits offered by the SIMMER are:

The City of Sunrise portal has received the 2004 prize for Excellence from the National Association of County Information Officers (NCIO).

The NCIO award recognizes applications and technology solutions implemented by city and county governments, or state entities, in the United States. The City of Sunrise, through the services of QUAXAR during 2003, implemented a highly innovative portal with the objective of improving local government services through a functional and innovative government portal. This prize was received in the Internet/Intranet category for entities with less than 500,000 inhabitants. The City was rated above 38 other public sector participants throughout the United States. Through its municipal and state government portal solution, QUAXAR provides the multiple benefits of Web technology to citizens through greater and simpler access to services, as well as greater efficiency in government activities.

QUAXAR's government solution has received a number of prizes in addition to the NCIO award:
City of Sunrise, FL, "Honorable Mention" in the Overall category for Web Sites, in the international ”2004 Communicator Awards ” Government of the State of Puebla Mexico, 2002 I-best Priz as the best government site in Mexico City of Sunrise FL, APEX® 2004 Award of Excellence for New Web & Intranet Sites. This award distinguishes excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and success in achieving efficiency and excellence in communication.