Ocean Office, based in Bradford, supply office products and EOS to companies across the UK. Adnan Awan, MD, founded the company two and a half years ago and currently employs four staff members. A stockless dealer who works closely with VOW, they wanted a solution to streamline their customers’ shopping experience as well as run their day-to-day business. They chose Vision Online because it fitted in perfectly with their future growth plans and, being hosted, it meant they did not have to invest in hardware or focus on maintaining an IT infrastructure in-house.
More than 350 office products dealers across the UK use ECi’s “back-office” software solutions to automate their business processes and globally our systems are present in over 5200 dealerships. The hosted software solutions account for more than £22m worth of business each month.
ECi UK first entered the hosting environment more than six years ago and have invested heavily in their ASP/SaaS infrastructure—over £1m to date—and can offer redundancy to ensure business continuity that is not available with any other trade systems house.
Adnan Awan of Ocean Office commented:
“Vision Online allows me to get on with managing my business, not my IT. We originally signed up for Vision on a standalone basis, but when we learned of the fully-hosted online version, the decision to switch to this was a ‘no-brainer’. ECi is a stable systems provider. They take their responsibility in hosting software very seriously; they have been doing it for years and have invested heavily in their infrastructure. We are very pleased with our systems decision and look forward to working closely with ECi on future developments.”