Program Content
Do you know the essential role that technology plays in driving opportunity for improving public safety? Want to know how one of the “Best Places to Live” in the United States uses business intelligence to maintain its high quality of life and ensure the safety of its residents?
Find out in this Webcast, as former Cary, NC, Town Manager Bill Coleman shares his experience of trying to regulate the town’s astronomical growth and its impact on Cary’s infrastructure. As Coleman faced increased need for departmental information sharing, he relied on technology to facilitate communication and to predict future public safety priorities based on historical data.
This Webcast focuses on how technology can help you better allocate resources to focus on critical public safety concerns in your town.
Key Takeaways
- Identify opportunities for technology to boost public safety measures.
- Understand how technology can accurately forecast allocation of public safety resources.
- Recognize the relationship between better and more immediate information access and the resulting safer communities.
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Learn how SAS can take state and local government beyond business as usual by helping departments and agencies understand the past, monitor the present, and predict outcomes as they move the organization ahead. |
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About Bill Coleman, Manager of Local Government, SAS and Ben Zenick, VP, Consulting Services and co-founder, Zencos
Bill Coleman works with SAS local government customers across the US to understand best practices and solutions. Coleman applies his more than 30 years of experience as a senior leader in city and local government to guide SAS product and marketing management.
From 1994 to 2008, he served as Town Manager of Cary, NC, the seventh-largest municipality in the state with a population exceeding 130,000. Coleman was responsible for planning, organizing and directing municipal operations, which included more than 1,000 employees and 11 departments providing a full range of municipal services.
Under his leadership, Cary was the first municipality in North Carolina to work on performance enhancement system. The system was designed to help the town maintain its high quality of life by improving resource allocation and operational efficiencies throughout town government, beginning with the areas of public safety and development services.
Ben Zenick is Vice President of Consulting Services and co-founder of Zencos, a business intelligence consulting and services company based in Cary, NC. Under his leadership and vision, Zencos has become an elite SAS® Gold Alliance partner and Inc. 500 company, recognized as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the US. With a strong background in designing, building and deploying extensive data warehouse and business intelligence solutions, Zenick ensures that Zencos team members consistently exceed customers’ expectations through efficient and intelligent execution and delivery.
His management of public sector projects has resulted in several of Zencos’ clients receiving recognition including InfoWorld’s 2008 Top 100 IT Projects.
