Progent's Enterprise Network Consulting Enterprise Services Project Best Practices: Microsoft Solutions Framework MSF
When conducting consulting projects for enterprise clients, Progent follows a phased methodology driven by specified milestones so as to achieve budgetary, scheduling and technical targets while reducing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Methodology follows accepted project management procedures based on the best practices defined by the Microsoft Solutions Framework Project methodology which specifies requirements definition, architecture proposals, test models, design tuning, and expert deployment. All facets are recorded to provide a detailed summary of technical services delivered and to help in downstream system support.
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional has the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in important areas of system, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of certified professionals for all of the security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, and web application security.
Microsoft Operations Manager Support and Integration Setup and Support
Progent’s Microsoft certified experts provide small and midsize businesses experienced support services for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. Operations Manager 2007 and MOM 2005 offer extensible and scalable high-end system management by providing detailed event management, 24x7 monitoring and threshold alarms, reporting and trend profiling, and network and application-specific heuristics and routines to increase the control of Windows Server System environments. Through built-in application intelligence, Operations Manager 2007 and 2005 allow you to isolate your IT reliability problems before they become disasters, improve the efficiency of your IT operations via specified best practices, and support your network operations and senior administrative staff by sharing key service level and performance information. Progent’s System Center Operations Manager consulting experts have broad field-proven experience with Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and 2005 and can help your company install and configure MOM in order to maximize the reliability and productivity of your IT network.
Progent's Data Center professionals can help you identify fault-tolerant data centers that match the particular needs of your business. Fault tolerant co-location sites are especially attractive to small companies because of their affordability and convenience compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to build an in-house data center that offers even a basic degree of fault tolerance is too expensive for the majority of small businesses. Progent is ready to show you how to get all the benefits of non-stop data centers and 24x7 colo sites by providing a complete array of engineering and maintenance services.
When conducting IT projects for enterprise customers, Progent follows a phased approach driven by defined milestones so as to achieve financial, timing and engineering targets while reducing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Methodology utilizes industry project management standards derived from the best practices described by the Microsoft MSF methodology which includes requirements definition, architecture recommendations, test models, design tuning, and expert implementation. All facets are documented to make available a detailed description of IT services performed and to assist in downstream network support.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team offers network help and information technology consulting services for Microsoft Operations Manager and for the expanding line of Application Management Packs that bring the power of MOM to a broad range of business-critical applications. Progent offers consulting for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to bring small business systems maximum availability, protection and speed. Progent can show you how to take full advantage of Microsoft Operations Manager by performing requirements analysis, deployment, setup, customization, troubleshooting, Help Desk services, security consulting, and administration. With over five years of background working with the NetIQ platform upon which MOM is based, Progent's network consulting experts can offer small businesses world-class support for MOM.
Network monitoring commonly entails observing a system's resource usage in order to identify data traffic backups or troubleshoot hardware or program problems. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are powerful, license-free monitoring tools that work under Linux and can be deployed to observe mixed-platform environments where UNIX and Windows operate together. Progent's system integration engineers can help you use both these programs to optimize and repair your network. Progent's Linux support professionals offer small companies and programmers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX/Linux and Solaris systems that work with Windows-based products.
Progent's Linux consulting experts offer small and mid-size companies and software developers support for administering and supporting Linux systems that run with Microsoft-based networks. Progent offers your organization access to Linux experts, consulting professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISSP credentials. This wide array of expertise provides you with a convenient single source to show you how to create and manage a protected and robust cross-platform connectivity and communications environment that allows Linux and Microsoft coexistence by combining MS Windows with major Linux variations including RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Progent can supply organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and major cities across the U.S. with a Microsoft Excel specialist who can help you create state-of-the-art Excel applications or offer individual training in the newest features of Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2003. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers can help your business build and maintain a protected, robust information system foundation to run your MS Excel applications.
Progent's Cisco-certified network engineers can show you how to run Cisco's network management tools along with a selection of powerful third-party products to create a complete network management solution to keep your environment running reliably, conserve limited resources, protect your data, revive rapidly from hardware breakdown or deliberate attacks, and allow you to add or repurpose valuable resources sensibly and economically as your company grows.
Progent delivered a wireless networking solution that enabled a school to improve efficiency and avoid the recurring costs of a dedicated wireline connection. Progent recommended a Proxim Tsunami high-speed wireless bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim wireless bridge is intended for connecting separate locations as far as 2.5 miles apart and can reach even longer distances. This wireless alternative provided improved performance and reliability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b network, and since it uses the 5.8Ghz band it provided immunity to local interference.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified experts can provide small and medium sized businesses computer consulting, support, and repair services for Microsoft SPS 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal platform for efficiently connecting people, groups and information. SharePoint Portal Server provides a common spot for your employees or clients to access, manage, share and manipulate relevant data, documents, and software and to interact with other people. It allows faster and more intelligent decisions, more efficient sharing across groups and more streamlined business practices. The primary objective of SharePoint Server is to gather together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of information accessible within and outside an organization. Windows SharePoint Services join employees, customers, teams and major tasks with the data they’ve developed in a way that makes data convenient to locate, download and apply.
If your company computer system mixes Sun Solaris platforms with MS Windows, Progent can show you how to integrate your computers into a unified environment that allows all your OS platforms to coexist for simple administration, seamless information exchange, high reliability, superior throughput, and strong protection. Progent's Solaris and Microsoft Windows coexistence support services include IT architecture integration and service, consulting for Windows services for UNIX, remote network monitoring and management, remote technical support and repair, in-person technical support, and help desk call center services.
