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MANAGED IT & CO-MANAGED IT

Managed IT Services in
Dallas–Fort Worth

We run and support the day-to-day IT your business depends on — help desk, monitoring, patching and specialist work — with a dedicated U.S.-based team and a fixed monthly fee. Bring us everything, or hand us the parts your in-house team would rather not own.

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U.S.-based team

24x7 after-hours coverage

Fixed monthly fee

Managed IT in Dallas–Fort Worth

What we do, for whom, and where

Cendien delivers managed IT and co-managed IT services for small and mid-sized organizations across Dallas–Fort Worth and beyond, plus remote support nationwide from our Carrollton, Texas team. We run the day-to-day IT your business relies on — help desk, after-hours monitoring, patching and specialist platform skills — through your own ticket queue, for a fixed monthly fee covering a defined scope. Whether you need us to own IT entirely or to extend an existing in-house team, the delivery model is the same.

Whole-team backups with a named escalation path
Business-hours team plus 24x7 after-hours coverage
Documentation on a shared SharePoint site
Monthly service reporting

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What happens when your finance system goes down

See how Cendien's managed IT service desk triages, escalates and restores an outage with every step visible to you, plus monitoring, patching, backups, co-managed IT, two-week onboarding and one fixed monthly fee.

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At 8:05 on a Monday, a clerk can't reach the finance system. What happens next matters. With Cendien, the ticket lands in your queue. An engineer triages it, checks monitoring, and sees a failed network switch. The issue is escalated, the team is updated, and service is restored. And every step is visible to you. Monitoring, patching and backups run in the background. Security practices are built into daily work, within the scope we agree with you. Already have an IT team? We co-manage. You keep strategy and key systems, and we cover the help desk, after-hours coverage and specialist skills. Onboarding usually takes two weeks, with parallel coverage so nothing drops. And it's all one fixed monthly fee. Let's talk about your IT environment at cendien.com.

Why It Makes Sense

Why Managed IT Services Makes Sense

Running IT is a full-time job — and rarely the best use of your team's time. Here's why handing it off delivers a better outcome for your business.

The Business Case

Your IT Runs Your Entire Business

Every system, application, and device depends on a healthy IT backbone. When it fails, revenue, productivity, and reputation all take the hit.

A Full In-House Team Is Expensive

Salaries, benefits, training, and constant turnover make an internal IT department a major fixed cost that is difficult to scale up or down.

Technology & Threats Evolve Fast

Staying current on infrastructure, cloud, and security demands continuous investment in skills, tools, and certifications.

Reactive IT Is the Most Expensive IT

Paying to fix problems after they happen always costs more than preventing them upfront with proactive management.

Key Benefits

Predictable Flat-Rate Costs

Budget-friendly monthly pricing with no surprise IT invoices.

24/7/365 Monitoring

Round-the-clock surveillance and support — no coverage gaps.

Proactive Issue Prevention

We find and fix problems before they disrupt your business.

Access to Senior Engineers

Enterprise-grade expertise on demand, without the full-time cost.

Stronger Security Posture

Continuous patching, hardening, and threat monitoring.

Scales With Your Business

Elastic services that flex as your organization grows or changes.

Reduced Downtime

Backed by a 99.9% uptime guarantee and clear SLAs.

Focus on Core Business

Your team spends its energy on strategic, revenue-driving work.

The bottom line? Lower costs, higher uptime, and a team free to focus on growth.

Let's show you what proactive IT management looks like for your environment.

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What's Included

Everything You Get With Every Engagement

Managed IT goes well beyond break-fix support. Every client gets a complete, proactive partnership built around these deliverables.

Dedicated Account Manager

A single, named point of contact who owns your account, coordinates all work, and keeps initiatives moving.

24/7 Network Operations Center

A full-time NOC staffed by certified engineers who monitor your environment around the clock.

Proactive Monitoring & Alerting

Real-time surveillance with instant anomaly detection and automated alerting before issues escalate.

Regular Maintenance & Patching

Scheduled patches, updates, and maintenance windows that keep systems current and secure.

Help Desk for Your End Users

Front-line support for your employees — password resets, troubleshooting, and quick resolutions.

Monthly Reporting & Dashboards

Clear reports on uptime, incidents, and performance so leadership always knows where things stand.

Quarterly Business Reviews

A strategic QBR covering performance, SLA adherence, roadmap, and value delivered.

vCIO Strategic Guidance

A virtual CIO who aligns your IT roadmap with business strategy and budget planning.

And Much More

Continuous value adds like security assessments, cloud optimization, and proactive improvement.

Co-Managed IT

Keep your IT team.
Extend it with ours.

If you already have in-house IT, co-managed IT lets you keep the reins while we take on the work that is hardest to staff and sustain. Your team stays focused on strategy and the systems only they know best — we cover the help desk, after-hours monitoring, patching and specialist skills.

Help desk

End-user support through your existing ticket queue.

After-hours monitoring

Eyes on your environment outside business hours and overnight.

Patching

Operating system and application patching on a managed schedule.

Specialist skills

Access to platform and domain specialists when your team needs them.

What your team keeps

Overall IT strategy and roadmap
Ownership of key, business-critical systems
Budget, vendor and executive relationships
Final decisions on architecture and priorities

The same delivery model applies to co-managed engagements: tickets through your queue, a standing weekly meeting with your Cendien PM, a shared SharePoint site, a named escalation path and monthly service reporting.

Direct access to the whole team

No call-center layer

Why Cendien Managed Services

Focus on Your Business.
We'll Handle Your IT.

Cendien's managed IT services take on the day-to-day running of your environment so your team can focus on strategic priorities instead of firefighting. Tickets flow through your established queue, and a dedicated Cendien PM meets with you weekly.

From help desk and patching to after-hours monitoring and specialist platform work, we act as a seamless extension of your IT team — for a fixed monthly fee covering a defined scope.

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24/7 Monitoring

Round-the-clock infrastructure surveillance with instant anomaly detection and automated alerting.

Proactive Support

We identify and resolve issues before they ever impact your operations or end users.

Predictable Costs

Flat-rate monthly pricing eliminates surprise IT bills and reduces total cost of ownership.

Elastic Scalability

Services that flex up or down instantly as your business grows or your needs change.

Security-First

Every layer of your environment is hardened, patched, and continuously scanned for threats.

Executive Reporting

Monthly dashboards and QBRs give leadership full visibility into IT health and ROI.

The Cendien Difference

Request One, Get Us All

Every consultant is backed by our full team — technical leadership, account management & 27 years of expertise. No extra cost, just complete support.

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What We Manage

Comprehensive Managed Services

End-to-end IT infrastructure management covering every layer of your technology environment — from the network edge to the cloud.

Network Management

Complete network infrastructure oversight including routers, switches, firewalls, and wireless systems with performance optimization and security hardening.

LAN/WANSD-WANFirewallWi-Fi

Server & Infrastructure

Comprehensive server management covering physical and virtual environments, patch management, capacity planning, and performance tuning.

VMwareHyper-VWindows ServerLinux

Security Monitoring

Advanced threat detection, vulnerability assessments, security patch deployment, and compliance monitoring to protect your digital assets.

SIEMEDRVulnerability MgmtSOC

Help Desk Support

Multi-tier technical support for end users with ticketing system, remote assistance, and escalation procedures for rapid issue resolution.

Tier 1–3Remote SupportITSMSLA-Backed

Cloud Management

Full lifecycle cloud service management including provisioning, optimization, cost control, and hybrid cloud integration strategies.

AWSAzureGoogle CloudHybrid

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Automated backup solutions, disaster recovery planning, business continuity strategies, and regular recovery testing protocols.

RPO/RTOVeeamImmutable BackupsDR Testing

Endpoint Management

Centralized management of all endpoints — laptops, desktops, and mobile devices — with automated patching, policy enforcement, and asset tracking.

MDMIntunePatch MgmtAsset Tracking

Microsoft 365 Management

Full administration of your Microsoft 365 environment including Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, licensing optimization, and security configuration.

ExchangeTeamsSharePointLicensing

IT Reporting & Analytics

Executive-level dashboards, monthly health reports, capacity forecasting, and quarterly business reviews to align IT with business goals.

DashboardsQBRsForecastingKPIs

Onboarding

Your first 30 days

Onboarding is phased so there is no service disruption. The standard onboarding is two weeks and never longer than four.

Discovery & documentation

We map your environment, systems and priorities, and document what we find on the shared SharePoint site so nothing lives only in someone's head.

Access & tooling

Monitoring agents, access and tooling are set up, your ticket queue is wired in, and we agree the scope and service levels for your account.

Parallel coverage

We work alongside your existing team or provider so there is no service disruption while we take over day-to-day work.

Go-live of ticket intake

Ticket intake goes live in the client's established queue, the named escalation path is set, and your weekly meeting cadence begins.

First monthly report

You receive the first monthly service report covering activity and performance, and we align on what to prioritize next.

How the engagement works

One consistent delivery model, every time

Our managed-services model is the same across every platform we support. It is built around dedicated people, transparent processes, and predictable cost.

Tickets through your queue

Work is submitted through the client's established ticket queue, so requests follow your existing process and reporting.

Standing weekly meeting

A weekly cadence with your dedicated Cendien Project Manager to review open items, priorities, and progress.

Quarterly leadership meetings

Quarterly sessions with Cendien leadership to review performance, service levels, and the forward roadmap.

Shared SharePoint site

A shared site holding all documentation, deliverables, and run-books so your team always has the current picture.

Direct team access

Clients reach any Cendien team member directly — there is no call-center layer between you and the people doing the work.

Named escalation path

A named escalation path means issues reach the right senior person quickly, without guesswork.

Monthly service reporting

Monthly reporting on service performance and activity keeps you informed and gives leadership clear visibility.

Fixed monthly fee for a defined scope

One predictable monthly fee for a defined scope — budget predictability with dedicated people assigned to your account.

U.S.-based team plus 24x7

A U.S.-based team during business hours, plus 24x7 after-hours coverage so critical issues are never left waiting.

Freshdesk service desk with AIOps

Our service desk runs on Freshdesk with Cendien's own AIOps automation for routing and resolution.

How It Works

Our Managed Services Process

A proven, structured methodology that delivers reliable, proactive IT management from day one.

Week 1–2

Discovery & Assessment

We conduct a thorough audit of your current IT environment — infrastructure, security posture, gaps, and risk areas — to build a complete baseline.

Deliverable: IT Health Report

Week 2–4

Onboarding & Setup

Monitoring agents, ITSM tooling, and documentation are deployed. SLAs are defined, escalation paths established, and your team is briefed.

Deliverable: Onboarding Runbook

Ongoing

24/7 Monitoring

Our NOC team watches every layer of your environment around the clock — network, servers, endpoints, cloud, and security — with automated alerting.

Deliverable: Live NOC Dashboard

As Needed

Incident Response

When issues arise, our engineers respond within SLA windows, diagnose root causes, and resolve problems — often before you even notice them.

Deliverable: Incident Reports

Monthly

Optimization

We continuously tune performance, right-size resources, apply patches, and recommend strategic improvements to keep your environment ahead of demand.

Deliverable: Optimization Log

Quarterly

Reporting & QBR

Executive dashboards, monthly health summaries, and quarterly business reviews align IT performance with your business goals and roadmap.

Deliverable: Executive QBR Deck

The Cendien Advantage

Why Organizations
Choose Cendien

We are not just a vendor — we operate as an extension of your team. Our managed IT model is built on documented process, dedicated people, and one predictable monthly fee.

1999

Serving clients since

W-2

U.S.-based staff

24x7

After-hours coverage

Fixed

Monthly fee

Serving clients since 1999

Cendien (Arisma Group, LLC) has delivered IT consulting and managed services to organizations across Texas and nationwide since 1999.

A 30+ person firm with W-2 staff

You work with our own W-2 employees — not a broker or a rotating cast of subcontractors.

Documented, reported service

A shared SharePoint site holds the documentation and run-books, and you receive monthly service reporting.

Predictable monthly fee

A fixed monthly fee for a defined scope gives you budget predictability and dedicated people assigned to your account.

Direct access to the team

Any member of the Cendien team can be reached directly — there is no call-center layer between you and the work.

Business hours and 24x7

A U.S.-based team during business hours, plus 24x7 after-hours coverage for the issues that cannot wait.

Technology Stack

Best-in-Class Tools, Expertly Managed

We leverage industry-leading platforms so you get enterprise-grade capabilities without the enterprise-grade complexity.

Monitoring & ITSM

SolarWinds

ServiceNow

Datadog

PagerDuty

Security & Compliance

CrowdStrike

Splunk SIEM

Qualys

Microsoft Defender

Cloud Platforms

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

VMware

Backup & Recovery

Veeam

Acronis

Zerto

Commvault

Already using a specific tool?

We integrate with your existing stack — no rip-and-replace required.

Discuss Your Stack

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Where we deliver on-site across DFW, and how remote support works nationwide.

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How our Freshdesk-based service desk and AIOps routing handle day-to-day tickets.

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ERP application managed services

The same managed model applied to Infor, Workday, Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP.

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The ROI of IT managed services

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Managed services buyer guide

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Request consultants

Need specific IT skills rather than a fully managed service? Start here.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Help desk support, after-hours monitoring, operating system and application patching, and access to specialist platform skills. Work is submitted through your established ticket queue, and your dedicated Cendien Project Manager meets with you weekly.

Free IT assessment — no obligation

Ready to stop reacting
and start preventing?

Let us review your current environment and outline a managed IT plan that fits your team, your scope and your budget — at no cost.

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U.S.-based team

24x7 after-hours coverage

Monthly service reporting

Fixed monthly fee

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What we do, for whom, and where

What happens when your finance system goes down

Why Managed IT Services Makes Sense

The Business Case

Your IT Runs Your Entire Business

A Full In-House Team Is Expensive

Technology & Threats Evolve Fast

Reactive IT Is the Most Expensive IT

Key Benefits

Predictable Flat-Rate Costs

24/7/365 Monitoring

Proactive Issue Prevention

Access to Senior Engineers

Stronger Security Posture

Scales With Your Business

Reduced Downtime

Focus on Core Business

The bottom line? Lower costs, higher uptime, and a team free to focus on growth.

Everything You Get With Every Engagement

Dedicated Account Manager

24/7 Network Operations Center

Proactive Monitoring & Alerting

Regular Maintenance & Patching

Help Desk for Your End Users

Monthly Reporting & Dashboards

Quarterly Business Reviews

vCIO Strategic Guidance

And Much More

Keep your IT team.Extend it with ours.

What your team keeps

Focus on Your Business.We'll Handle Your IT.

24/7 Monitoring

Proactive Support

Predictable Costs

Elastic Scalability

Security-First

Executive Reporting

Request One, Get Us All

Comprehensive Managed Services

Network Management

Server & Infrastructure

Security Monitoring

Help Desk Support

Cloud Management

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Endpoint Management

Microsoft 365 Management

IT Reporting & Analytics

Your first 30 days

Discovery & documentation

Access & tooling

Parallel coverage

Go-live of ticket intake

First monthly report

One consistent delivery model, every time

Tickets through your queue

Standing weekly meeting

Quarterly leadership meetings

Shared SharePoint site

Direct team access

Named escalation path

Monthly service reporting

Fixed monthly fee for a defined scope

U.S.-based team plus 24x7

Freshdesk service desk with AIOps

Our Managed Services Process

Discovery & Assessment

Onboarding & Setup

24/7 Monitoring

Incident Response

Optimization

Reporting & QBR

Why OrganizationsChoose Cendien

Serving clients since 1999

A 30+ person firm with W-2 staff

Documented, reported service

Predictable monthly fee

Managed IT Services in
Dallas–Fort Worth

Keep your IT team.
Extend it with ours.

Focus on Your Business.
We'll Handle Your IT.

Why Organizations
Choose Cendien

Ready to stop reacting
and start preventing?