Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris Expertise Linux Consultants: MRTG and Nagios Network Monitor Expertise
Nagios and MRTG are powerful, free monitoring utilities that run with Linux and can be deployed to monitor UNIX/Linux networks, Microsoft Windows networks, or multi-platform situations in which the Linux OS and Microsoft Windows run side by side. The Nagios monitor lets network managers to track system services such as POP3, HTTP, FTP, and NNTP. MRTG lets you track the bandwidth in and out of SNMP network appliances including processors, routers, and switches. Progent's system integration experts can assist you to utilize both these programs to streamline and repair your network.
MS Dynamics GP 10.0 accounting software is a full-featured business management platform that unifies data and operations across your business, interfaces easily with other solutions, and connects workers, clients and vendors regardless of time or location. Designed for small to mid-size companies, MS Dynamics GP 10.0 provides capability for financials, management reporting, project management, inventory and order control, e-commerce, human resource management, CRM, field force automation, manufacturing, retail management, and web-based business services. Progent can help you install and manage a reliable, secure server and network infrastructure to support Microsoft Great Plains, and can give you access to experienced Great Plains professionals to help your business exploit the full potential of Microsoft Dynamics GP Release 10.0.
The technical sophistication of the Microsoft .NET products bundled with Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 requires a network consultant with real-world background planning and building seamless, end-to-end business network solutions. Progent's Microsoft SBS Server professionals have an average of more than 10 years of background supporting computer networks built on Microsoft products. This experience assures you success in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting IT environments that include the Microsoft SBS 2003 suite of servers and productivity software.
Progent offers expertise for security analysis software such as LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of programmed system auditing scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad knowledge of security analysis tools and can help you to make sense of testing reports and react effectively. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations, install scanning tools, define and implement a protected system architecture, and suggest policies to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are ready to show you how to set up a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and install VPN. Progent's accredited security experts can validate the security of web software and can provide extensive security tests of enterprise-wide security to validate your company's compliance with recognized industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO.
E-Mail Guard is Progent's economical anti-spam and virus defense managed service that gives small companies enterprise-quality protection from spam, viruses, directory harvesting, and other varieties of email-borne assaults on computer networks. E-Mail Guard is built on Postini's Perimeter Manager, a full suite of web-managed anti-spam and virus protection services that stop email assaults before they can penetrate the company firewall. Perimeter Manager also lets administrators track and control their email application, irrespective of server platform, hardware type, or geographic location.
Progent's consultants offer Apple Mac clients a variety of services such workstation help, interconnectivity with Windows-powered computers, email help, specialized application development, and one-on-one training. Progent's Apple-certified experts and Microsoft-certified engineers can help your business build and maintain a safe, highly available IT system and communications infrastructure to support networks in which Apple Mac computers work with Windows-powered and UNIX/Linux-based systems.
Progent’s Cisco-qualified technology experts offer wireless integration services for Cisco WAP and wireless bridge technology. Cisco provides access points that have either single 802.11g transceivers for as high as 54 Mbps of capacity or two-radio access points supporting both 802.11g and 802.11a for up to 108 Mbps of network capacity. Progent’s Cisco wireless professionals can provide expertise for the entire family of Cisco 802.11g wireless access points and wireless bridges including the Cisco Aironet 350 Access Point, the Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless Bridge, the Cisco Aironet 1130AG Series and 1230AG Series access points, the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series Outdoor Access Point/Bridge, the Cisco Aironet 1400 Wireless Bridge, plus any Cisco 802.11b Wireless Access Point device. The Cisco Aironet 1130AG Series and 1230AG Series access points are designed to conserve current and ongoing system architecture dollars10:25 AM 6/28/2006. The 802.11a radio handles throughput of as much as 54 Mbps on 12 free 5 GHz channels to offer fast performance as well as high scalability. The 802.11g radio allows data rates up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band. When using an 802.11g radio, the access point may be configured to handle only 802.11g clients for high-performance scenarios, or, for added investment protection, it may be set up to support both 802.11g and legacy 802.11b technology.
Microsoft CRM helps mid-market businesses build positive customer relationships. Built-in Sales and Customer Service components enable in-house staff to share information to help promote sales success and offer steady, effective customer service. Progent can configure the most sensible network infrastructure, including mobile wireless connectivity, to support Microsoft CRM, and Progent's Experts Team can provide your Bay Area company with a certified MSCRM consultant who can show you how to combine Microsoft Dynamics CRM with your marketing or customer service data.
Les Kent has a 25-year track record of effective network integration, corporate administration, marketing, and operations. He has demonstrated a talent for creating elegant information technology solutions while working as a system architect, application developer, project manager, deployment expert, and problem solver for small businesses, new ventures, and global corporations.
Cisco's security and remote access technology for small organizations represent a full line of manageable security products to help protect your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's VPN product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP qualifications who are able to assist your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, Cisco wireless appliances, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your business objectives.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer network help and technology consulting services for Microsoft .NET Servers and applications and for Windows Server 2003. Progent’s consulting professionals can help you plan, integrate, maintain and manage the entire family of Windows .NET Servers including Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, ISA Server, Biztalk Server, Microsoft Commerce Server, Content Management Server, Small Business Server, Exchange Server, Microsoft Application Center, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft SharePoint Services, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Microsoft Project Server, and Operations Manager 2007 and 2005.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants can provide small and medium size businesses expert Microsoft SQL Server help. Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive, Web-enabled database and data analysis platform that opens the door to the speedy development of advanced business applications that offer your company a competitive edge. SQL Server provides built-in support for XML and the ability to query over the Internet and beyond the corporate firewall. In addition to offering expertise, support and problem solving services, Progent’s SQL experts can help you get the most out of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to increase the business value of your IT system. Progent can also help you migrate from earlier versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2005.
Progent can help you to plan and implement an efficient transition from a UNIX-based information environment to a network based on Windows and capable of running Microsoft's popular office productivity products, business applications, and developer platforms. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco engineers and application specialists can show you how to preserve your information and reduce business discontinuity by designing an effective migration plan that protects your existing assets in UNIX software and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows migration consulting services available from Progent include evaluation of current infrastructure, migration strategy and validation, Microsoft Exchange migration services, data and application software transition, and server and storage system migration and consolidation.
If you have a company network with 10 to 50 network clients, Progent's IT outsourcing services free your company from over-reliance on an individual freelance consultant while giving you cost-effective and reliable access to enterprise-class technical support. By delivering network support help when you need it, offering advanced expertise for key applications, delivering value-added services such as 24x7 server monitoring, and billing only for support you receive, Progent offers you an economical way for optimizing the business value of your small business network. Progent is the intelligent way for small businesses to build and maintain a robust and safe IT network and to benefit from quick access to the skilled consulting typically restricted to enterprises who can afford a sizeable internal IT organization.
For businesses with Mac users in the San Francisco Bay Area, Progent can provide onsite education customized for people who want to broaden their understanding of the Apple OS X platform, Macintosh computers, or Macintosh office productivity software including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Entourage.
