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Ocuco
Sector: Software development, Software as a service, Optometry
Size: 201-500 employees
Technology used: Microsoft Azure, Smart AIM
Solution area: Cloud infrastructure and security, DevOps accelerator and developer productivity
A pioneer in eyecare software engineering, Ocuco drives scalability and innovation across the optical industry with its flagship software product: Acuitas optical practice management software (PMS). As the world’s largest eyecare software company, Ocuco’s software and services are used in more than 6,750 sites across 88 countries. The company employs over 350 people worldwide, with major hubs in the USA, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and China.
Ocuco needed to enhance its Acuitas optical practice management software (PMS) to support an Omnichannel model, enabling customers to manage their business within a single platform while delivering visibility and control across both online and in-store operations. This required a scalable, cloud-first solution to achieve a consistent patient experience and remove the complexity of multiple disconnected systems
In parallel, Ocuco needed to migrate and validate its Acuitas 2 client-server technology to Microsoft Azure, while designing and implementing Acuitas 3, a fully cloud-based PMS built as a flexible framework to unify multiple customer touchpoints. Meeting these requirements required expert guidance in cloud migration, architecture, and best-practice implementation—support provided by the Spanish Point team, who played a key role in delivering both initiatives.
Spanish Point deployed Smart AIM, its Microsoft Azure DevOps accelerator with prebuilt libraries and framework services, to speed up Ocuco’s modernisation and reduce delivery risk. Specifically, Ocuco’s solution leveraged the Smart AIM library infrastructure-as-code and DevOps pipeline templates to streamline architecture validation and reduce complexity. By using the Smart AIM library’s reference architectures, Ocuco ensured industry best-practice assembly of infrastructure to support the quick, cost-efficient establishment of a secure Azure environment and CI/CD.
In parallel, Spanish Point engineered a scalable Azure landing zone with enforced security baselines. Key components included Azure Application Gateway for traffic management, centralised logging/monitoring, and FinOps practices for ongoing cost visibility. Azure Synapse underpinned embedded analytics, while role-based access and automated checks in the pipeline embedded “secure-by-default” operations across environments.
Ocuco successfully launched Acuitas 3 optical practice management software (PMS) as an omnichannel, cloud-native platform, that integrated clinical workflows, scheduling, inventory, marketing, and e-commerce in one system. Acuitas 3 eliminated hardware constraints and ensured enterprise-grade security. It integrated seamlessly with Ocuco’s Innovations lab management system (LMS), reducing order errors and remakes, improving lab efficiency, and lowering costs.
Customer data and Acuitas practice management applications were migrated from hosted datacentres to Microsoft Azure, providing Ocuco with greater visibility into infrastructure usage, resource consumption, and application performance in the cloud. This improved cost control and yielded greater value from Ocuco’s cloud investment. Compared to Acuitas 2, Acuitas 3 offered modern DevOps-driven updates, faster deployments, and a scalable architecture designed for global growth.
Discover more: Working with Spanish Point, Ocuco also built a cloud-native version of Acuitas with embedded analytics powered by Azure Synapse and Power BI. This allowed practices to gain real-time insights for smarter decisions-making.
meeting legal requirements such as HIPAA. Acuitas 3 OmniChannel Edition is ISO/IEC 27001:2017 certified, SOC 2 Type II compliant, and GDPR compliant.
between multiple Azure components used within the application architecture.
with increased developer productivity achieved through use of Smart AIM Azure DevOps accelerator, specifically Smart AIM library.
with Acuitas 3 as a fully cloud-native SaaS solution successfully migrated from Acuitas 2 client-server system.
Spanish Point accelerated Ocuco’s modernisation by migrating Acuitas 2 from client-server architecture to Microsoft Azure and guiding the design and implementation of Acuitas 3—a cloud-native, multi-tenant practice management software (PMS)—using the Smart AIM DevOps accelerator to deliver a secure, scalable Azure environment with automated CI/CD pipelines.
By leveraging the Smart AIM DevOps accelerator, specifically the Smart AIM library infrastructure-as-code, DevOps pipeline templates, and reference architectures, Ocuco gained access to reusable assets such as ARM/Bicep templates, YAML pipeline definitions, and compliance blueprints that accelerated delivery while maintaining enterprise-grade security and operational excellence. YAML pipelines were established with integrated security scans, approvals, and environment promotions; standardised repo/branch policies to improve code quality; and codified platform resources for networking, identity, and data services. With these accelerator assets, Ocuco gained repeatable, auditable deployments, faster release cadence, and reduced configuration drift—freeing engineering time to focus on product work rather than plumbing.
Ocuco’s Azure estate was built with leastprivilege access, encrypted storage, and policy-as-code to enforce configuration standards. Application Gateway and centralised observability improved resilience and incident response, while CI/CD gates enforced image provenance and vulnerability thresholds. Cost governance was embedded through FinOps dashboards, tagging, and budget alerts. For regulated data, controls were mapped into pipeline checks and runtime policies, ensuring that security and compliance requirements were continuously met without slowing delivery.
