Durham, N.C. (April 16, 2007) — Zencos Consulting announces ZenGuard^™, a unique approach to business intelligence (BI) solution management support.    Zencos’ newest offering provides businesses and organizations access to a wealth of BI experience and expertise shared among its team of consultants.

Designed for business and organizations that do not have internal expertise or dedicated resources, ZenGuard specifically addresses the utilization and ongoing maintenance of the SAS^®9 environment.   By building a strong relationship and knowledge base around the SAS^®9 BI infrastructure ZenGuard provides crucial leadership and reliable advice. 

ZenGuard provides dedicated assistance on utilizing the SAS^®9 platform and associated SAS^®9 client technologies.     Specifically addressing the development and ongoing maintenance of the SAS BI environment, ZenGuard promotes continuous improvement throughout the support cycle by providing reliable advice for BI success.    ZenGuard offers assistance and expertise on strategic SAS system activities including: maintenance, troubleshooting, data integration, reporting as well as strategic advice.

“After learning and developing the best approach to creating a true ROI in BI architecture, we decided to offer customers access to our knowledge and experience with the launch of ZenGuard,” said David Septoff, Zencos CEO.   “We believe that our new ZenGuard service can extend ROI on SAS^®9 BI systems and deliver cost savings across multiple systems.   It has become apparent to us that there is a need for an extension of our core services to customers who need answers to ad-hoc issues.”

“SAS and Zencos Consulting have a long history of successful business intelligence implementations using SAS^®9 architecture,” said Jim Davis, SAS’ Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. “The new ZenGuard service will help qualified customers get the most from their SAS^®9 investment.”

ZenGuard is a cost controlled support mode that allows customers to address day to day questions quickly and easily.   Compared to traditional time and materials consulting projects, ZenGuard will deliver answers in a faster turnaround time by eliminating procurement cycles.   Customers will have the option of purchasing pre-paid hours for their support needs. 

The process begins with a BI architecture assessment to gain an intimate knowledge of an organization’s SAS^®9 applications, environment, projects and goals; which generates recommendations for increasing the return on investment (ROI).   At the same time ZenGuard will provide ad-hoc support for customers via phone and web support systems.

For more information on ZenGaurd contact Zencos at 919-827-1088, extension 1, or via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

About Zencos

Based in Durham, N.C., Zencos, an Inc. 500 business intelligence consulting firm, offers solutions that provide the vital intelligence data necessary to interpret information accurately and correctly.  From the creation of data marts to e-applications, sophisticated reporting, analysis and visualization, Zencos delivers a strong methodology and framework that achieves insight and flexibility 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, visit us at www.zencos.com.

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