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Small businesses in the Sacramento area take advantage of IT outsourcing to control costs and boost productivity. IT outsourcing provides a small company with reliable and affordable access to expert consultants without incurring the cost of adding head count to the in-house IT staff. Intelligent IT outsourcing keeps your company's management focused on your business and at the same time offers a high level of network support and security.

Once widely thought of as an expensive service alternative for large enterprises with big IT budgets, IT outsourcing is now a money-saving alternative for businesses of virtually any size. New technology from Microsoft, Cisco and other vendors make it cost-effective and safe for small businesses to outsource network management and support services rom third-party experts for a fraction of the cost of doing everything in-house. Surveys show that the top reasons for small businesses to outsource IT services are:

• Improve management focus
• Reduce and control operating expenses
• Free internal resources for business-specific tasks
• Provide reliable access a broad range of IT experts
• Add expertise not available from in-house IT staff

Progent has supported small business networks for years and has developed highly efficient, non-traditional IT outsourcing programs that address the special needs of small businesses. By leveraging techniques such as proactive monitoring, remote management and support, and automated security protection and correction, Progent can save you money and increase the business value of your information system.

Progent offers small and midsize companies a variety of computer consulting options featured on Progent's web site. Below links contain details some of the services and benefits Progent can provide for companies in the Sacramento area:

	Juniper Consulting		Progent's Juniper Networks-certified network consultants can assist you to design and implement Juniper Firewall and VPN platforms, enhance and support your network infrastructure, and upgrade smoothly from discontinued products to the latest releases. Progent's Junos OS engineers can provide expertise with Juniper's flagship network operating system to help your business to simplify the administration and strengthen the protection of your Juniper VPN appliances and firewalls. Progent also has broad experience supporting Juniper's NetScreen OS and ScreenOS operating system productss and can assist you maintain environments that incorporate a combination of Juniper's software platforms.
	Project Management Consulting Services		For enterprise project management support, Progent offers access to veteran information technology experts with years of experience as IT project managers for program development, information technology implementation, and process re-engineering working with organizations from Big 4 firms to dot-com startups to state government agencies. These proven IT managers offer advanced management skills to help enterprise customers to follow best practices to ensure that major projects are completed on time and on budget.
	Microsoft Excel Consulting Services		Progent's Excel experts can assist you to create advanced Excel-based programs or provide one-on-one training in the sophisticated capabilities of Microsoft Excel 2007 and Excel 2010. Progent's consultants can also assist your business to build and maintain a secure, dependable network and communications architecture to support your Microsoft Excel applications. Progent's SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 experts can show you how utilize Excel Services to expand the power of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and 2010 by incorporating dynamic Excel spreadsheets into management intelligence portals and dashboards. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics specialists can show you how to share data between Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and 2010 and products such as Dynamics GP (Great Plains) and Microsoft Dynamics AX.
	Server Virtualization Solutions Consulting Services		Virtualization techniques allow businesses to run several virtual servers on a single actual processor. Typical usage scenarios for virtualization include hardware consolidation, inexpensive platforms for applications that require older OS software, and economical quarantining of application development or pilot environments from production ones. Progent's virtualization technology engineers offer Windows Server 2012 network virtualization consulting services, Windows Server Hyper-V Virtual Server help, VMware vSphere virtual server expertise, and Citrix Virtual Server assistance. Progent can install virtual machines to maximize speed, fault tolerance and manageability while simultaneously cutting costs; suggest and test business recovery strategies that reduce downtown in case of a major failure; and provide continuing support, repair, and consulting assistance as virtualization technology evolves.
	Virtual Server Hosting Services		Progent's Virtual Server Hosting services offer complete hosting of a small organization's production servers in a solution that delivers the maximum level of dependability and expandability and is also easy to move to another host. Progent's Virtual Server Hosting and Management services are based upon proven virtualization technologies that enable small and midsize businesses with multi- platform environments to economize significantly on the expense of capital investments, system support, and network administration while benefiting from world-class fault tolerance and an unprecedented degree of vendor flexibility.
	64-bit Computing Upgrade Support		Progent’s Microsoft qualified engineers can assist your organization to enhance your application servers and/or workstations from 32 to 64 bits. Progent can assist your company to understand the costs and advantages of migrating to 64-bit processing, design an efficient upgrade strategy that minimizes operational disruptions, and offer economical, professional online help to aid your organization to install 64-bit operating systems and applications on your existing hardware. Progent's 64-bit processing consultants can help you to integrate the 64-bit versions of Microsoft products like Windows Server 2008 Rs, Exchange Server, Windows 7, and Office Excel.
	SQL Server 2008 Support		Progent’s Microsoft certified professionals can provide small and medium size businesses advanced MS SQL Server 2008 support. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a complete, web-ready database and data analysis package that enables the rapid creation of enterprise-grade business programs that can give your company a competitive edge. SQL Server provides built-in support for XML and the ability to query across the Internet and beyond the corporate firewall. In addition to offering consulting, support and problem solving services, Progent’s SQL consultants can help you use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to increase the profitability of your IT system. Progent can also help your company to migrate from older editions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008 or to move to SQL Server 2012 from SQL Server 2008.
	Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Consulting		Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified Exchange 2010 Server engineers can assist you to determine the value of Exchange Server 2010 for your company and can assist you to plan and carry out a smooth migration to Exchange Server 2010 from Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2K that will offer fast return on investment by improving your productivity, cutting the expense of hardware and support, simplifying management, and consolidating your vital communications platforms.
	Colocation Data Center Migration and Consulting		There are several hundred world-class Internet Data Centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and major metropolitan areas throughout the U.S., and Progent's Internet data center expert consultants can improve your network's fault tolerance and performance by helping you select a colocation facility that addresses the specific requirements of your organization including geographic proximity, size, connectivity, budget, and value-added features and services. Progent’s colocation center IT services are designed for businesses with hardware located at collocation hosting facilities and in need of on-demand in-person assistance at the co-location site plus remote support from Microsoft and Cisco certified experts. Progent provides a variety of colo center consulting services such as network topology analysis, Windows and UNIX server integration and support, tech support for server and communications networking, design and deployment of fault tolerant systems, architecting and deploying layered security structures, firewall integration and support, designing load balancing solutions, and creating fault tolerant server cluster configurations.

White Paper: Why Outsource?
Progent has produced a white paper that summarizes the benefits a small organization can realize by outsourcing IT administration services. To read this document and learn the reasons outsourcing can reduce costs, simplify administration, and maximize productivity, click Small Company IT Outsourcing White Paper.

Progent provides on-premise network support, remote technical services, and optional 24x7 urgent technical help in Sacramento, Elk Grove, Parkway, South Sacramento, Florin and cities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Peninsula and the California Central Valley.

If your small business is in the Sacramento area and you require computer assistance, information technology outsourcing, or top-level expertise from a Progent professional:

Call 916-273-1400 or send email to information@progent.com