Leonel Azuela: Young entrepreneur.

At 34 years of age Leonel Azuela is among the wave of young and savvy professionals and entrepreneurs arriving in Miami from Mexico. Azuela´s firm, Quaxar, is a full service IT company that specializes in creating useful internet portals for private industry and governments, that go beyond a two-dimensional home-page.

For instance, the Quaxar site designed for the City of Sunrise allows citizen to pay local taxes, apply for code variances and handle all their municipal business without ever having to go to City Hall. Additionally the company is able to digitize large quantities of data, a process of great demand in the Latin America market. In fact, Azuela says, he plans to grow the five-year-old firm in Miami whit an eye to the Americas and the Caribbean.

“There’s a big growth in the Hispanic market for online services,” Azuela, a Harvard Business School grad says. “And being in the U.S. keeps us on the cutting edge.” He points out that during the time Quaxar planted its roots in Miami, the competition among upstart IT firms has been growing. Still, with revenues above $1millon, and steady doubling of business each year, Azuela say the company is in Miami to stay.

Hewlett-Packard selects Quaxar to perform electronic message delivery for Internal Communications in Latin America.

On January 17th, 2005 Quaxar began performing the delivery of electronic messages to HP Latin America's Internal Communications area.

The objective of this program is to keep all of the HP Latin America personnel informed with the relevant employee information. QUAXAR, has also worked to improve the performance of HP's electronic message delivery system with regard to higher quality and increased speed.

QUAXAR, also supports the HP Internal Communications area by sending the internal monthly newsletter, whose objective is to present an informative summary on the activities which have taken place during the previous month.

Finally, QUAXAR supports the HP campaign operations by analyzing employee interactions with the messaging system. This is accomplishes through the established
metrics which help to measure the impact of the messages.

QUAXAR, since the conception of this program, has sent over seventy thousand emails, with the highest quality and assertive information.

QUAXAR, was hired by SIFIDE to install the COBIS MICROBANX banking system.

SIFIDE is an institution that works for the State Government satisfying the needs of the financial area in San Luis Potosi. They selected QUAXAR, to install the COBIS portfolio management software during the first semester of 2005.

Until now, SIFIDE has based its operations on several systems of credit and accounting. These systems are not directly linked and are therefore forced to make recaptures and unload information. Thus, the operation is open to human error and is not as efficent as possible. Because of this SIFIDE has been evaluating platforms to increase its' operating efficency

Finally, after many interviews, SIFIDE has chosen QUAXAR-COBIS. They offer a solution oriented in producing a strong positive impact on SIFIDE´s short-term institutional capacity, and at the same time, making it easier for SIDIFE to build up a strong base in order to achieve continuous improvement for the future.
“Besides fulfilling all the requirements stated on the request sheet, we are sure that we are capable of building competitive advantages for SIFIDE,” says Javier Ballesteros, Quaxar´s General Manager in Mexico.

COBIS manages many functions. One of these functions is to allow all the areas of the organization to share a common database, therefore providing the entire company with access to the same information. This will allow SIFIDE´s personnel to pay more attention to tasks with greater importance and thus shorten the cycle between the requesting and granting of credit. It will also allow personnel to obtain operative and managerial reports without having any intermediaries. Finally, the recaptures and interventions that may have put information in jeopardy will now be eliminated.

COBIS is a product of Microbanx, (www.microbanx.com), an associate of QUAXAR's since 2004.

COBIS has more than 70 facilities in Latin America, and many outstanding clients
such as:

The SIFIDE Project must be delivered during the second trimester of 2005.