Oxford Computer Consultants

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Oxford Computer Consultants Ltd.
Company typePrivate company
Founded1989
Headquarters,
Key people
Dr John Boyle
(Co-founder & Finance Director)
Kaz Librowski
(Co-founder)
Nick Warner
(Local Government Products Director)
Damian Payne
(Operations Director)
Hanna Machray
(HR and Marketing Director)
Websitewww.oxfordcc.co.uk

Oxford Computer Consultants (OCC) was founded in 1989 John Boyle and Kaz Librowski. It employs over 100 IT professionals and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Specializing in bespoke software development for a variety of professional and industrial sectors, OCC also provides IT consultancy services to a wide range of industries. It has produced OCC Marketplace, a product for local authorities for the Government's individual budgets program. It is part of a suite of applications for local government.[1]

OCC's local government products are used by over 80 councils. They specialise in integrated social care finance solutions[buzzword] with products such as 'ContrOCC' is used by adults’ and children's social care finance teams to manage contracts, make payments to providers and collect contributions from users. Another of OCC's flagship products is 'MarketPlace', a powerful and intuitive search engine for social care services and information, integrated with NHS Choices, Ofsted, CQC and council case management and finance systems.

Oxford Computer Consultants has contributed towards research into a wearable home-monitoring system for people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease. It was also an inventor of INDIGO software in the assistive technology field, virtual reality glasses for people with Parkinson's disease.[2][3]

In April 2023, OCC has been acquired by System C Healthcare. [4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "London authorities join forces in social care information procurement". UKauthorITy.com. 23 February 2011.
  2. ^ "Parkinson's hope over glasses". BBC News, Health. 27 February 2005.
  3. ^ "Headsets for Parkinson's disease sufferers". Oxford Mail. 14 October 2002.
  4. ^ "Oxford Computer Consultants Joins the System C Family". System C. 14 April 2023.