Oco, Inc., announced today a major upgrade to its market-leading enterprise-class Software-as-a-Service business intelligence (SaaS BI) solution. Better economics, lower risk and simpler deployment provided by SaaS BI are fostering wider-spread rollouts of Oco by medium- and large-size enterprise customers. Oco 4.0 enhancements underscore this momentum by enabling customers to easily meet the most advanced enterprise SaaS BI requirements, such as turn-key integration of data from SAP applications, multi-national deployments and more.

"We are very excited about the Oco 4.0 release,” said Bill Coyne, director, strategic sourcing for Welch’s. “Oco has enabled us to find many opportunities for savings by being able to analyze and view information in an integrated way. We look forward to the new enhancements to Oco’s SaaS BI solution.”

Oco 4.0 features several enterprise SaaS BI innovations:

-- Enhanced Global Deployment – Many Oco customers deploy the solution to users in different geographies. Oco 4.0 features new performance and usability enhancements that support global use of the system on a 24x7 basis with no interruptions for system administration, data loading, etc. Global users are particularly interested in the new solution’s ability to automatically alert them in real-time if a report they are viewing has been outdated by a new data upload. Oco also supports multi-byte, multi-national character sets for reporting on internationalized data from any geography.

-- Enterprise SaaS BI “Mash-Up” Support – Single sign-on enhancements enable customers to integrate Oco with other enterprise web applications. Content from external systems (such as maps, calendars, images, etc.) can be integrated into Oco dashboards to create engaging new BI solutions.

-- Industry-First Turn-Key SAP Data Integration - One of the major enhancements in Oco 4.0 is the introduction of the Oco Data Exporter for SAP, making Oco the first to tackle the challenges of integrating SAP data into a SaaS BI solution. Patented technology enables the Oco Data Exporter for SAP to explore and extract the trusted original data from SAP ERP and SAP CRM instances—even those that have been highly customized—and transport it into the Oco cloud-based analytical data store for on-demand BI reporting and analysis. The Oco Data Exporter for SAP works in a manner that is compliant with SAP customers’ network and application security policies: It is read-only, and pushes data outbound to Oco, protecting it with strong encryption. No inbound network paths are required.

“SAP application customers often require months to design, build and maintain data integration and data warehouses for analyzing SAP data,” said William Copacino, president and CEO of Oco, Inc. “With our new connectivity to SAP applications, customers can take a more turn-key approach and deliver BI solutions for SAP faster, at lower cost and with less risk of delivery delay.”

SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand Integration – As planned in a February 2010 statement of direction, Oco 4.0 now integrates with the recently launched SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand to provide ad-hoc analytics and reporting needs to customers. Customers will benefit from the ease-of-use improvements made by SAP, as well as from Oco 4.0’s support of new SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand components, such as the folder security paradigm, BusinessObjects Explorer and more.

Oco 4.0 is available immediately and licensed on-demand for a monthly fee.