| MINNEAPOLIS — Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) is pleased to announce the inauguration of its Global Engineering Center (GEC) in Bangalore, India to help with implementation and deployment of OSI projects in India, Asia, and the Middle East. This marks another major milestone in the company's steady international expansion. OSI strongly believes in intense customer focus, pragmatism, innovation, commitment, motivation, and excellence. Designed to facilitate honest and enduring partnerships with OSI customers, the GEC will build upon the company’s core values to support growth of OSI’s international business while freeing U.S. resources to concentrate primarily on North America-, Europe-, and Australia/New Zealand-based projects. “We are very excited about the expansion of our operations in India to achieve a true ‘GLOCAL’ (Global Technology and Local Engineering and Implementation) organization,” said Bharath Kumar, managing director of OSI. “We believe utilities globally are facing the same challenges as our clients in North America, so we are pleased to be able to deliver our superior technology and services while being closer to our end customers.” Staffed by experienced, multidisciplinary technical teams, the GEC will deliver OSI's leading-edge operational technology (OT) platforms and solutions to new clients throughout the region while also providing local support in keeping with OSI's tradition of high-quality project delivery and superior customer service. “The establishment of the Global Engineering Center represents another step in OSI India’s continued journey along a steady trajectory of growth and development. Our global vision is based on hard work, open communication, a strong emphasis on teamwork, and a high level of responsibility,” said Thyagaraj Ramachandran, director of international operations, OSI India. Open Systems International (www.osii.com)—headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota— provides open, state-of-the-art and high-performance automation solutions to utilities worldwide. These solutions include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Network Management Systems (NMS), Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Outage Management Systems (OMS), Generation Management Systems (GMS), Substation Automation (SA) Systems, Data Warehousing (Historian) Analytics, Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS), Situational Awareness Systems, individual software and hardware products, and Smart Grid solutions for utility operations. OSI’s solutions empower its users to meet their operational challenges, day in and day out, with unsurpassed reliability and a minimal cost of technology ownership and maintenance. For additional information regarding this news release, please contact news@osii.com. |