King Arthur Flour Selects Oco SaaS BI For Profitability Analysis

Waltham, MA – Oco, Inc., the leading innovator of business intelligence software as a service (SaaS BI) solutions, announced today that King Arthur Flour Company, Inc. has deployed the Oco SaaS BI solution integrated with SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand for advanced reporting and analytics.

"Partnering with Oco gave us the BI expertise and tools to quickly bring value to our company,” said Steve Cochran, Director of IT Systems at King Arthur Flour Company. “With Oco SaaS BI we get the actionable insight we need to grow our business and satisfy customers in a fraction of the time it usually takes to implement traditional BI platforms, and without any new data center overhead.”

King Arthur Flour’s new BI solution is based on Oco’s on-demand data integration, data warehousing and analytics Software-as-a-Service. Oco integrates King Arthur Flour data from multiple transactional systems, including two order entry systems, financial software and a trade promotion management system. Information is presented to users via rich, interactive, web-based Oco dashboards. Ad-hoc reporting is enabled via integration between Oco and SAP® BusinessObjects™ OnDemand.

"We’re excited King Arthur Flour has chosen the Oco SaaS BI solution to provide business analytics to their operating teams and executive leadership," said William Copacino, president and CEO, Oco, Inc. "The use of the integrated SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand and Oco SaaS BI and analytics solution by King Arthur Flour demonstrates the power of our integrated solution. This relationship brings together leading technology, tools, and expertise into the most comprehensive enterprise-class business intelligence solution delivered on-demand.”

For more information about the joint Oco / SAP solution, please visit http://www.oco-inc.com/business-objects.asp.

About Oco, Inc.

Oco is the leading innovator of enterprise-class Software-as-a-Service business intelligence (SaaS BI) solutions. The company provides complete BI solutions to customers such as Dunkin’ Brands, Fidelity Investments, Office Depot, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Welch’s. Oco’s unique business-centric approach to BI helps companies solve targeted business issues, achieve payback within 90 days and triple their return on investment. Leveraging a library of best-practice analytics, pre-built data models, and patented technology, Oco’s SaaS-based solutions are delivered in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions, with fewer IT resource requirements than traditional approaches. In addition to its own product portfolio, Oco also offers an on-demand BI solution through its partnership with SAP BusinessObjects. Oco was founded in 1999 and its headquarters are in Waltham, Mass. More information about Oco can be found at http://www.oco-inc.com.

Source: Oco, Inc.