Beckman Coulter Selects Oco’s Business Intelligence Solution
Oco’s solution helps drive operational improvements and customer satisfaction
WALTHAM, Mass.—Aug. 26, 2008 - Oco, Inc., a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
provider of business intelligence (BI) and data integration solutions, announced
today that Beckman Coulter Inc (NYSE: BEC), a leading developer and manufacturer
of laboratory testing instruments and supplies, has selected Oco’s business intelligence
solution to provide advanced reporting and analytics.
“We selected Oco because of its unique ability to rapidly deploy its solution,”
said Craig Cole, Global Strategic Operations Director for Beckman Coulter. “Another
important factor was Oco’s ability to integrate data from multiple systems and produce
focused reports to understand and drive performance improvement across multiple
dimensions of our Services business.”
Oco’s Inventory Management module will be deployed in Beckman Coulter’s Services
business to enhance global visibility into key business data needed to reduce costs
and improve customer experience. Oco’s solution will seamlessly integrate data from
disparate source systems to identify service supply chain performance, and inventory
levels across multiple geographies, organizations and product lines.
“We are pleased that Beckman Coulter selected Oco, and we see a great fit between
our solution and its commitment to driving operational efficiencies,” said William
Copacino, president and CEO of Oco. “Our packaged modules of best practices allow
Beckman Coulter to get reports and visibility across its service parts business
within a matter of weeks. Because the modules allow users to drill down to a granular
level of detail, the company can easily see root causes of issues and identify areas
for improvement.”
Data integration across multiple enterprise-wide solutions, insightful reports and
analytics, and the low-impact SaaS model were key selection criteria for Beckman
Coulter. To capture and host the data, Oco’s business intelligence solution extracts
data from multiple sources, then organizes it into an intelligent data schema, and
drives analytics-based reporting, all in a matter of weeks. Oco’s intuitive Web
interface encourages rapid adoption and widespread use of the new solution across
multiple geographies. Because Oco manages and maintains the data through a SaaS
model, Beckman Coulter’s IT staff is freed up to focus on other mission-critical
tasks.
About Beckman Coulter
Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument
systems, tests and supplies that simplify and automate laboratory processes. Spanning
the biomedical testing continuum—from pioneering medical research and clinical trials
to laboratory diagnostics and point-of-care testing—Beckman Coulter's 200,000 installed
systems provide essential biomedical information to enhance health care around the
world. The company, based in Fullerton, Calif., reported 2007 annual sales of $2.76
billion with more than 78 percent of this amount generated by recurring revenue
from supplies, test kits and services.
About Oco, Inc.
Oco’s business intelligence solutions provide essential business visibility, delivering
an integrated set of actionable reports and key performance indicators from multiple
data sources to any user in just weeks. Oco’s comprehensive solutions dramatically
reduce the timeframe, cost and risk of traditional business intelligence implementations
with deployment on a fixed-cost, fixed-time basis and a money-back guarantee.
More information on Oco is available at www.oco-inc.com.
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