Digital partners that know publishing.

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At OCC, we have been creating sophisticated software solutions to publishing problems for over twenty years. Our friendly London-based technical team, together with our experienced project managers, routinely develop industry-leading products.

Talk to us about your digital content and platform needs. As digital partners, we can assist at all stages of product discovery; from initial requirement gathering through to development delivery. We can streamline your current editorial workflow and increase the value of existing resources.

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Metadata and content.

Converting your existing content into digital formats, or adopting a digital first work flow doesn’t have to be overly complicated or difficult. Metadata is often the most important, and trickiest, piece of the puzzle to get right but we are here to help: from devising the schema to advising on workflow.

Platform development.

We have delivered market-leading products for educational publishers, frequently developing and launching revolutionary products that further progress within the industry. Our philosophy is not digital for the sake of digital, but digital to enhance and improve user interactions with content.

Resource production.

Whether it’s enhancing your existing resources with engaging visuals, or producing content from scratch, we can add value to your portfolio. We deliver powerful, creative solutions that enable you to connect with your audience and meet your design objectives.

“The most productive and collaborative environment for software development requires the nurturing of an environment of trust and mutual respect. This is exactly what working with OCC can offer. Partnering with OCC was the most engaging, reliable and fun development experience I have had in the last 20 years”

— Brad Scott, Publishing Technologist

We’re really proud of the work we’ve created with our clients.

National teaching platform

The Education Platform is a transformative product for the UK education industry. The platform allows teachers to discover content, create digital copies and share copies with students. It allows for the ingestion of content files and descriptive metadata. There are detailed authentication models and a comprehensive administration module that sits in the back end.
ExamBuilder tool

OCR is one of the UK’s leading examboards. With a huge backlog of pdf past papers, we wrote a custom XML spec to manage the conversion to a digital format. Our Content Authoring Tool manages the ingestion of content and manipulation of metadata. On the front end, teachers can choose from the question bank to build their own practice papers.
Knowledge-sharing webinars

NHS Vanguards lead the development of new models of care. We helped create an internal series of videos aimed at the sharing of learnings within the vanguards and associated institutes and a public-facing video series which would look back on the journey of the vanguards—their achievements and experiences.
Awareness campaign

We worked with The Royal Society to raise awareness of the diversity within the scientific community using specific role-model stories and by encouraging participation from members of the wider community to tell their own story. We worked towards building a picture of what it is like to be at all points of the spectrum from a PhD student to a fellow of the Royal Society. #AndAScientist.
Learning management system

Our sister agency, TVF Communications, were working with Hoya to create educational content that taught healthcare professionals how to use medical devices. They came to us to develop a platform to host the content. Given budget considerations, we decided to utilise functionality extensions and create bespoke plugins to customise a Moodle platform and create a LMS to house elearning content.
Assessment question banks

Hodder Education (Hachette UK) are a leading educational publisher, creating a range of quality print and digital resources for schools and colleges in the United Kingdom. We have worked with Hodder for a decade, assisting in delivering their pioneering vision for the digital education sector.
Content management system

Many publishers are starting to make the switch to modern content authoring systems in order to streamline their workflows, reduce their reliance on external conversion teams, and save their editorial teams time and money. Our solution, ContentEd, is a highly functional editorial tool that can be adapted to any workflow.