Best CIS Implementation Award

CSWEEK.png
Transform complexity into simplicity!
Gartner® Market Guide for Utility CIS 2025

AI Alexandria

Meet Alexandria: Smartflex AI for Intelligent Utility Operations

Alexandria brings embedded, contextual AI into Smartflex, helping utilities move from fragmented data and manual processes to intelligent, governed, and actionable operations. 

Generic AI won’t transform utility operations

Utilities manage complex operations across customer service, billing, payments, collections, meter data, field work, and digital channels. But when data lives in disconnected systems, AI becomes just another layer of fragmentation.

Alexandria brings AI into the core of Smartflex

Alexandria is the AI Agents Engine of Smartflex. It is designed to work inside utility processes, using operational context, governed data access, configurable workflows, and authorized actions to help teams analyze, decide, and execute faster.

Native AI engine embedded in Smartflex

Contextual intelligence for utility operations

Agentic workflows for customer service, billing, collections, and field operations

Real-time triggers from events in Smartflex

Human-in-the-loop control when required

Execution inside core processes, not outside them

Discover more

Open Intelligence, renowned for its technological and software solutions in the utility industry, is pleased to announce its rebranding to Open Intelligence. This strategic change reflects the company's commitment to continue leading technological innovation with a focus on smart solutions driven by the latest advances in artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technology.
Gartner, a leader in IT research and consulting, annually provides a comprehensive analysis of technology markets and CIS software providers in its Market Guide for Utility Customer Information Systems. This report offers valuable analysis and recommendations to help utility companies find high-performance CIS providers, evaluating the value proposition, features, and growth of each provider.
Open Intelligence's continuous update strategy offers its clients an estimated 75% savings in investment over 10 years compared to highly disruptive traditional technological upgrade processes. According to its CTO, Juan Corredor: "Release 49 of Smartflex V8 provides clients with capabilities to offer a more agile service to their users and make better decisions aimed at increasing the efficiency of their business processes.
Open Intelligence (Open), a leading software provider with over 35 years of experience, is proud to announce the launch of its new office in Spain. This expansion reflects Open's commitment to the European market, supported by its success in competitive and highly regulated markets such as the United States, the Caribbean, Central, and South America.
Utilities are exploring how AI can revolutionize various processes in their operations, from infrastructure inspection and customer engagement to regulatory compliance and operational efficiency. By embracing AI, utilities can enhance their service delivery, customer satisfaction, and competitiveness in an evolving landscape without compromising reliability.
True to its commitment to offering comprehensive, secure, and reliable utility billing solutions and services to the market, Open conducted the attestation process for the internal control processes involved in the provision of Smartflex service in SaaS mode, granted by KPMG Advisory, under the internationally recognized auditing standard: SSAE 18 – SOC 2.

Ready to see how embedded AI can transform utility operations? Explore how Alexandria helps utilities bring intelligence into the workflows that matter most.

The Unified Customer Operations Platform

Smartflex is a unified customer operations platform that centralizes all commercial processes billing and revenue management, digital engagement, customer service, mobile workforce operations, and meter data management within a single, AI-enabled environment. It gives utilities real-time visibility of business processes and a single source of truth of customer operations that enables faster product and pricing changes, and a modern digital experience for customers. By connecting customers, data, and operations in a single platform, Smartflex reduces complexity, lowers cost-to-serve, strengthens regulatory compliance, and enables utilities to operate securely, efficiently, and with greater responsiveness to market change.