Oco. Inc. Appoints Industry Luminary as Chief Technology Officer

Recognized Software-as-a-Service and Scalable Computing Expert
Mike Beckerle Joins the Management Team
WALTHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--Oco, Inc., a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of
business intelligence (BI) and data integration solutions, announced
today that Mike Beckerle has joined the company as the Chief
Technology Officer (CTO). In this role, Beckerle will define the
strategic direction for Oco's world-class technologies, manage the
technology development and infrastructure development, and be an
integral part of the senior management team.

"We are thrilled that a technical leader with Mike's credentials
has chosen to join Oco," said Oco's president and chief executive
officer, William Copacino. "With more than 20 years of strong
technical leadership experience in advanced technology and scalable
computing, Mike is a perfect choice to lead our technical team to the
next level. He will be instrumental in driving Oco's efforts to
continue to bring world-class technologies and capabilities to the
mid-market at a vastly lower price point than traditional BI
solutions. Our customers will directly benefit from Mike's deep
technical knowledge of data integration and warehousing,
Software-as-a-Service, and scalable computing." Copacino added,
"Attracting such top-notch talent has provided further validation of
Oco's differentiated capabilities in business intelligence and data
integration."

Prior to joining Oco, Beckerle was at IBM where he was the senior
architect for the core scalable processing capabilities in the IBM
Information Server (formerly Ascential DataStage). He joined IBM when
it acquired Ascential Software, where he was Chief Scientist, and
joined Ascential when it acquired his startup company, Torrent
Systems. He initially created Torrent System's scalable computing
technology, bringing scientific parallel computing capabilities to the
business market. Beckerle has first-hand knowledge of the SaaS
approach from a previous start-up he co-founded to deliver an
Internet-based information service.

Beckerle has served as co-chair for the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) standard workgroup, and on the ANSI X3J13 standard for
the Common Lisp programming language. He earned his master's in
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T., and his
bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in
Waterloo, Ontario. He is a named inventor on eight patents.

"I was thinking about how to bring robust business intelligence
capability to the market with the speed and cost effectiveness of the
SaaS model when I discovered Oco," stated Beckerle. "There had to be a
faster and better way to provide visibility into key business data to
users throughout an organization, without all of the pain, cost,
expense, and risk traditionally associated with business intelligence
or data integration projects." He continued, "Oco is the real deal -
we have the technology, process and methodology, solutions, customers,
and team - to do what we guarantee, business intelligence up and
running in weeks."

About Oco, Inc.

Oco's business intelligence solution provides essential business
visibility, delivering an integrated set of actionable reports and
KPIs from multiple data sources to any user in just weeks. Oco's
comprehensive solution dramatically reduces the timeframe, cost and
risk of traditional business intelligence implementations with
deployment on a fixed-cost, fixed-time basis and a money-back
guarantee. For more information about Oco, please visit
www.oco-inc.com.

Oco, Inc.
Kristin Hambelton, 781-810-2554
khambelton@oco-inc.com
or
Pardes Communications, Inc.
Diane Pardes, 781-652-8059
dpardes@pardescommunications.com

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