Ocuco

Specialties

Ocuco is a software company supplying off the shelf software to the optical industry. With over 17 years of commitment to optics, we continue to stay at the leading edge of technology, with our optical Practice Management System and Lab Management System software providing sound business value to our customers.

Software Solutions for Independent Opticians, Optical Retail Chains, Global Optical Retail Chains and Optical Lens Manufacturing Labs.

Our Practice Management System software suite has been localised for Italy, France, Canada, Ireland, UK, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and Mexico, and we offer support in many languages from our offices around the world.

History

Established in 1993.

Ocuco was founded in 1993. With its head office in Ireland, Ocuco initially targeted Independent opticians in Ireland and the UK. Acuitas, its flagship product, gathered swift momentum as the first paperless practice management system with full integration of electronic medical records @@@ links to various types of diagnostic equipment.

In 2005, after successfully tendering for the practice management system contract for the 200 Vision Express stores, Ocuco completed a management buyout and restructured itself as a global company, with a departmental structure which could scale for growth across the world.

Ocuco later (2007) acquired Relcon, its main rival in the UK market, giving it the dominant market position in the UK. In parallel, Ocuco made international acquisitions; Innovations in the US, ASPE in France and Luna IT in Italy. These acquisitions were strategic in nature, both in gaining immediate market share in the countries, and also in obtaining a market presence and local opt

Meet the Business Owner

Leo M.

Business Owner

Leo graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1988 and began work in Tokyo, Japan, for Ricoh Company Ltd in their Image Processing R & D Department. In 1990, he went to work for Credit Suisse, Tokyo. In 1992 he returned to Ireland to study for an MBA at UCD. During this period of study he began to develop software for the local opticians market, trading as Mac Canna Software, later to become The Computer Department Ltd., and finally Ocuco.