Microsoft Certified Consultants Microsoft ISA Servers: Overview of Consulting Services
Progent’s Microsoft certified professionals provide small and midsize businesses expertise for Microsoft ISA Servers. Microsoft's ISA Server includes an advanced application-layer aware firewall that can protect your business network from attack by outside and internal threats. ISA Server provides thorough inspection of Internet protocols such as HTTP, which enables ISA Server to detect many threats that can get by traditional firewalls. The integrated firewall and VPN architecture of ISA Server support stateful filtering and monitoring of all VPN traffic. ISA Servers are the centerpiece of Microsoft's network security strategy, and Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers and CISSP and CISM certified security professionals can help you enhance your network security through experienced planning and integration of Microsoft ISA Servers. ISA Server is available in several versions including the Microsoft ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition and the ISA 2006 and 2004 Standard Edition. Progent’s Microsoft ISA Server support team can also show you how to integrate Microsoft Proxy Server and upgrade from ISA 2000 Server to the latest versions of ISA Server.
Progent’s business reporting consultants offer experience in Crystal Reports, FRx, and Microsoft Access reporting software. Progent can also help you set up the server, communications and protection infrastructure needed to support a cutting-edge reporting solution. Progent’s reporting specialists can be especially useful in assisting you to combine information from various data sources such as Access, Excel, XML, OLAP, SQL and a wide array of accounting packages and enterprise management software.
For businesses with Apple Macintosh users in the San Francisco Bay Area, Progent can provide onsite training customized for people who wish to expand their understanding of the Apple OS X operating system, Apple Mac hardware, or Mac office productivity applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Entourage for Mac.
SQL Server 2000 is a complete, web-aware database and data analysis solution that enables the fast development of a new generation of high-end applications that can provide your company a critical competitive advantage. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 features built-in support for XML and the capability to communicate across the Internet and beyond the firewall. The expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2000 engineers, averaging more than over 10 years of background helping with Microsoft integration, ensures you success in planning, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server applications that are well connected with other applications powered Microsoft's .NET platform.
Progent's expert consultants can show you how to define and implement an efficient in-place Microsoft Exchange 2003 migration strategy that avoids productivity downtime, simplifies long-term service demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 easy to manage. For complicated multiple server or multi-site upgrades, Progent offers the background to complete your move quickly and economically. Progent's Exchange 2003 help, repair, and design services include expertise with the configuration of third-party enhancements of Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server that are best aligned to your business goals.
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-qualified security engineer able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture ROI, information technology service delivery, protection of information assets, and business continuity planning.
Small to mid-sized companies can now get all the advantages of Microsoft Operations Manager and also have fast access to Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco certified network consulting experts. With Progent's affordably priced IT support programs, mid-size organizations can choose a simple MOM-based co-sourcing package with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online troubleshooting or a comprehensive round-the-clock outsourcing solution. Progent supports MOM 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to provide small business networks enterprise-class reliability, security and performance.
Progent's pricing model is to bill for online service and on-site help by the minute. Consequently, you are charged only for delivered services. Progent does not impose a more expensive rate for off-hours or priority service, and inside California or in areas where Progent provides on-site support, Progent does not charge for travel time except for emergency calls where on-site time is less than 4 hours. Also, Progent imposes no minimum fee and asks no monthly commitment. Many support firms demand large minimum payments or charge for each fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's small granularity eliminates big bills for fast fixes so you will not be forced to permit minor problems to stay unaddressed.
If your business computer system combines Linux-based products platforms with MS Windows, Progent can show you how to integrate your IT resources into a unified environment that allows all your OS platforms to run side by side for easy management, seamless information exchange, high availability, superior throughput, and strong security. Progent's Linux and Microsoft Windows integration support offerings feature IT infrastructure configuration and service, consulting for Windows services for UNIX, remote server monitoring and management, online technical help and troubleshooting, in-person technical support, and help desk outsourcing.
Progent's CISSP certified security experts, or Certified Information Systems Security Professionals, are experts who have been awarded CISSP Certification through rigorous study and thorough testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include Security Administration Practices, Security Design and Test Systems, Connection Permission Methodology, Applications Development Security, Business Processes Security, Physical Security, Encryption, Communications, Network Security, and Disaster Recovery Planning.
Progent is convinced that a well designed and executed information system is a pivotal piece for enabling a company's growth, and Progent follows this belief in our corporate system environment. Progent has built a non-stop virtual office infrastructure that enables our staff consultants and authorized contractors to deliver rapid and effective service, collaborate easily on sophisticated jobs, and experience professional and personal maturity from being a member of an exciting business ethos of self motivation and independence.
Progent’s Cisco Voice Over IP consultants offer expert evaluation, integration and troubleshooting help for Cisco VoIP technology. Cisco Architecture for Voice Video and Integrated Data technology provides the foundation and feature set for creating a seamless integrated network that can handle voice, video, and data traffic simultaneously. AVVID provides this capability while maintaining a high degree of system uptime, Quality of Service, and security. Important benefits of IP communications systems based on Cisco AVVID VoIP architecture include a versatile, interoperable migration ability that allows you to select IP Communications solutions that meet your existing needs, while offering an easy route for accelerating IP adoption, QoS mechanisms that help ensure optimal voice quality via tight control of delay, loss and jitter, and system administration tools that provide network administration, operations, repair, configuring, fault tracking, and element management. Progent’s Cisco-qualified technology experts can help you design a robust VoIP solution built around Cisco IP PBX and Cisco IP Telephony products. Progent’s Voice over IP consultants can help you select and deploy Cisco software appropriate for your small or mid-size business, such as Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Express, Cisco CallManager, or Cisco CallManager Express.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals have 20 years of experience planning, installing, and supporting email solutions for Northern California clients. Progent offers economical Microsoft Exchange Servers consulting services to make sure that your email system features protection, high availability, easy connectivity for remote and wireless users, time-saving administrative tools, and productive integration with telecommunications. Progent offers expertise and support services for Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server, Exchange 2000 Server, and Exchange Server 5.5. Progent can also help small or mid-size businesses to upgrade from Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, or Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server to Exchange Server 2007.
Even if your business has a small computer services group and a modest IT budget, your information system can still have the same high availability and performance that once required a substantial in-house service group. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of skilled Microsoft-qualified and Cisco-certified IT consultants, the most recent system management products for proactive monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective support packages such as a help desk call center to keep your mission-critical business applications and hardware operating. Progent's 24x7 Network Management Services include remote system monitoring, server monitoring, and program monitoring to cut service expenses, resolve trouble spots quickly, and prepare for issues before they impact system productivity. Progent is expert at installing System Center 2005, part of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative built on Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM) to deliver comprehensive process management. Progent can help with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 to give small company systems enterprise-class reliability, protection and performance.
If your organization does not need urgent online support but you think you will require assistance with your network soon, you can save time and expenses and ensure that the appropriate IT skill will be available when you require it by contacting a Progent sales agent and registering as a customer. For more information, call 800-993-9400 or send email to information@progent.com.
