San Antonio, TX (March 17, 2008)-Zencos announces new bundled services for implementations, migrations and SAS administration support for SAS®9.2, at the SAS Global Forum 2008, being held at Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas on March 16-19, 2008.

"With the release of SAS 9.2 we see a great opportunity to help customers deploy their software faster and better manage their SAS processes with the new features," said David Septoff, Zencos CEO.  "Therefore we've been working on creating some new services for customers that will allow them to rapidly deploy and take advantage of all the new SAS 9.2 features.  Zencos' proactive approach can help to address the challenges typically encountered when migrating or deploying a new software system."

Zencos' packaged migration services are designed to assist existing SAS customers with their migration to SAS 9.2 by providing SAS BI solution expertise.  The company has performed multiple migrations for prior SAS releases including the initial release of SAS®9 in 2004; as well as other versions.  Zencos consultants have valuable experience with important migration tasks such as metadata migration, and have developed best practices around these important processes.  Zencos has demonstrated its proficiency by winning several awards at past SAS Global Forum events including the 2007 Best Contributed Paper in Systems Architecture Award.  Zencos can get SAS users deploying new powerful advanced analytic features faster by shortening installation and migration timeframes and providing knowledge transfer to get customers up to speed with new features, tools and processes.

For new SAS deployments Zencos continues to offer its installation and configuration services for SAS 9.2.  "Our team of consultants has built a strong reputation performing installation and configuration for SAS customers and we plan to continue the quality of our delivery with SAS 9.2," said Joe Costanzo, Zencos chief technology officer.  "We've been working very hard learning the new interfaces and processes with Web Services, the new collaborative data integration tools and deployment and configuration processes so that our customers will benefit from our expertise.  Our new service bundles really cover the complete life cycle for BI in today's business from planning, installation and configuration or migrations to reporting and delivery, knowledge transfer and ongoing support services."

Zencos is also announcing that its ZenGuard support service is available for SAS 9.2 customers.  ZenGuard is Zencos' remote SAS administration support service that provides dedicated assistance on utilizing the SAS 9 Enterprise Intelligence software and associated SAS 9 Client technologies.  ZenGuard was initially released one year ago at the SAS Global Forum 2007 in Orlando, Florida.  "ZenGuard is a true extension of Zencos, where the customer continues the relationship in a proactive way, gaining the necessary knowledge and skills to stay productive and really make the most of their BI initiative," stated Septoff.

About Zencos

Zencos is a SAS Gold Alliance partner that offers a full breadth of solution implementation steps from strategic planning, installation and configuration, data services and analytics, report and application development, to training and ongoing SAS administration support.  Zencos' solutions provide the vital intelligence data necessary to interpret information accurately and correctly, allowing companies to make critical business decisions.  Zencos, the architect of vision and strategy for business intelligence solutions, offers comprehensive business intelligence technology to the financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and manufacturing markets, as well as other industries.  See where our vision and strategy for business intelligence can take your company at www.zencos.com.

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Brian McDonald
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