Cary, N.C. (Oct. 29, 2008) — Zencos, a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) services, and NaviSite, a leading provider of enterprise application hosting solutions, announced today their agreement to offer hosted solutions.  The agreement brings together NaviSite’s extensive dedicated application hosting experience with its global footprint of enterprise class, secure, scalable and reliable infrastructure and Zencos’ BI solution expertise in designing, building and supporting BI solutions.

The two companies developed the new service offering in response to the growing need for organizations to have high-quality, cost-effective technologies to overcome the challenges of limited human and capital resources.  Hosted solutions lessen the burden of hardware and infrastructure requirements, and minimize additional costs and resources to manage the application servers and other equipment.

“Recently, we have been focusing our attention on adding to our portfolio of services and solutions and now we have the opportunity to offer viable, hosted solutions that can deliver BI ROI to our customers faster and at a more affordable price,” stated David Septoff, Zencos CEO.  “By partnering with NaviSite, we feel that Zencos is in a better position to further architect, build, and support BI solutions for today’s growing companies.”

NaviSite’s dedicated hosting solutions integrate the latest hardware and software, including Microsoft Windows Server™ 2008, Linux and VMware® ESX, and feature dual hard drives, RAID, Intel® Xeon® server-grade processors, intrusion protection and other industry-leading technology. All solutions are hosted in NaviSite-operated enterprise-grade SAS 70 Type II certified data centers, with best-in-class technology and design, including N+1systems that provide power and cooling for guaranteed availability and performance.  NaviSite has also introduced a new Web site that enables businesses to easily configure and purchase their dedicated hosting solutions online.

“With 11 years of leadership experience in enterprise-class hosting, NaviSite is uniquely positioned to bring to market an advanced range of managed, dedicated servers and full-service support especially designed for the growing BI market,” said Sumeet Sabharwal, Senior Vice President of Dedicated Hosting at NaviSite. “By partnering with Zencos, we feel that we can provide best-of-class expertise in designing and deploying hosted BI solutions.”

Zencos brings a strong background in designing, implementing and supporting SAS®9 Solutions to the partnership.  Zencos will be able to leverage its SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) installation and configuration experience with its design and development skills to rapidly deploy BI systems on NaviSite’s hosted infrastructure.  By assisting customers who choose to have NaviSite host their, Zencos can get organizations up and running faster and achieve ROI in a shorter timeframe.To ensure customers stay productive and optimize their investment, Zencos provides ZenGuard™, a cost-controlled remote support model that allows customers to address their day-to-day questions quickly and easily, while remaining within a defined budget.  ZenGuard delivers results faster by eliminating procurement cycles for individual consultants.  Support includes addressing immediate infrastructure issues as well as implementing continuous system improvements and adjustments to reduce overall downtime.  This leads to improved performance and a stable environment for business users to generate timely analytics.

About NaviSite

NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. Customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in 17 state-of-the art data centers supported by more than 700 professionals. NaviSite provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities, packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in class technologies and a full suite of web-hosting and internet infrastructure options. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com

About Zencos

Zencos architects, builds, and supports business intelligence solutions which provide the vital intelligence necessary to interpret information accurately, allowing companies across all industries to make timely critical business decisions.  Zencos is a distinguished SAS® Gold Alliance partner that offers a full breadth of solutions including hosted solutions, hardware and software planning, installation and configuration; application development and data storage mechanisms; training and ongoing SAS administration support.  See where our vision and strategy for business intelligence can take your company at www.zencos.com.
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