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.

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. 

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.