Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris Expertise Solaris Consulting Help: Conversion Help from Solaris to Windows
Progent can help you to plan and implement a smooth migration from a Sun Solaris-powered information system to a network based on Microsoft Windows and capable of running Microsoft's popular office productivity suites, commercial applications, and developer platforms. Progent's Sun Solaris, Windows and Cisco engineers and application experts can show you how to guard your data and reduce business discontinuity by designing an efficient migration strategy that protects your current investments in Solaris application and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows migration support expertise offered by Progent include evaluation of existing environment, migration planning and validation, Microsoft Exchange migration support, information and application software transition, and processor and storage transition and consolidation.
Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 is a comprehensive edge gateway that offers a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), proxy, and Web caching solution for protecting the Internet-facing applications of any sized business against a wide variety of attacks. Progent's Microsoft ISA Server engineers can help you plan, rationalize, pilot, implement, customize and manage the Standard or Enterprise version of ISA Server on your network.
For custom application development, Progent can supply software design consultants to produce business software in areas such as commercial transaction webs, web development, Microsoft Business Solutions products including Great Plains Software accounting system, and custom management reports based on Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access, or FRx Reports. Progent’s consultants can use Microsoft IIS to build company-specific eCommerce solutions powered by Microsoft ASP.NET. In addition, Progent offers experts in a broad array of custom program development platforms including SQL Server and Delphi. For custom e-Commerce software, Progent also can provide expertise in custom Microsoft Access, custom Visual Basic, custom Excel, and any other specialized development based on any Microsoft development platform.
Progent believes that a carefully designed and implemented information system is a crucial piece for enabling any company's growth, and we follow this credo in our own system environment. Progent has built a non-stop virtual office network that allows our in-house consultants and authorized contractors to deliver rapid and effective service, cooperate easily on complex jobs, and gain from career and private maturity from being a member of a dynamic business culture of self motivation and freedom.
Server growth wreaks havoc on network budgets and management resources. Server consolidation via a virtual architecture offers lower TCO of servers and quicker return on investment, more leveraged utilization of physical computers, simplified operations, increased network availability, and easier manageability. Typical usage scenarios for virtual machines are hardware consolidation, low-cost platforms for mission-critical legacy software based on outdated operating systems, and inexpensive quarantine of program development or evaluation systems from production systems.
Even if your business has a small computer support staff and a modest technology budget, your information system can still have the same high reliability and responsiveness that once needed a substantial internal service group. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the expertise of world-class Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified IT consultants, the latest network management products for proactive monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective support programs such as a help desk service to keep your mission-critical business applications and hardware operating. Progent's 24x7 Network Management Services include round-the-clock network monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring to cut service costs, resolve trouble spots quickly, and anticipate problems before they degrade system performance. Progent is experienced at installing System Center 2005, part of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative powered by Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM) to perform complete event management. Progent supports Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to give small company systems enterprise-class reliability, security and capacity.
Progent’s Cisco VoIP professionals offer expert planning, integration and support services for Cisco VoIP products. Cisco AVVID platform supplies the foundation and feature set for building a single integrated network that can manage voice, video, and data traffic simultaneously. AVVID provides this functionality while maintaining a high degree of system availability, QoS, and security. Key advantages of IP communications systems based on Cisco AVVID VoIP architecture include a versatile, interoperable upgrade strategy that permits you to choose IP Communications products that meet your current requirements, while providing an easy route for speeding up IP adoption, Quality of Service mechanisms that help deliver optimal voice quality through close control of delay, loss and jitter, and network management tools that provide system administration, operations, repair, configuring, fault tracking, and element management. Progent’s Cisco-certified network consultants can show you how to implement a reliable VoIP phone system built around Cisco IP PBX and Cisco IP Telephony products. Progent’s VoIP consultants can show you how to pick and install Cisco software appropriate for your small or medium size business, such as Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Express, Cisco CallManager, or Cisco CallManager Express.
Progent provide San Francisco Bay Area small businesses enterprise-class network consulting as well as online or in-person technical support for networks based on Microsoft Windows Server technology and Microsoft's .NET platform including Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco qualified network consultants also can provide security expertise for companies varying in size from the small office to the global enterprise.
Progent has agent agreements with some of the industry's leading data/voice carriers and can provide your small business the same communications services you can get by dealing direct. Progent can also help you to select the service offerings that make the most sense for your organization and can deliver world-class consulting expertise to help you incorporate your data/voice services into a cohesive solution that optimizes the business value of your IT network. Service providers whose connections are offered through Progent include AT&T, Speakeasy, and NextWeb.
In performing IT projects for corporate customers, Progent follows a structured methodology driven by defined milestones so as to achieve financial, scheduling and technical goals while minimizing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Methodology utilizes industry project management standards derived from the best practices defined by the Microsoft Solutions Framework Project methodology which includes requirements definition, architecture proposals, test models, design adjustments, and expert deployment. All phases are recorded to make available a comprehensive description of IT services delivered and to assist in downstream network support.
Microsoft Virtual Server, run on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and powered by technology originally produced by Connectix, provides the performance needed to accomplish hardware reduction, software migration, and server quarantine tasks via virtualization techniques in an enterprise-class computing environment with advanced expandability, manageability, and availability. Microsoft has aimed Virtual Server 2005 at businesses wishing to enhance operational efficiency in application development and piloting, migration from legacy mission-critical applications, and hardware consolidation. Progent's professional Virtual Server consultants can help your IT staff to assess and integrate MS Virtual Server.
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can help you define and implement an efficient in-place Microsoft Exchange 2003 upgrade plan that avoids productivity disruption, reduces ongoing support demands, and makes your Exchange Server 2003 easy to administer. For complex multiple server or multi-site migrations, Progent offers the background to complete your move quickly and economically. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 support, repair, and design offerings include assistance with the configuration of third-party enhancements of Exchange Server 2003 that are in keeping with your business needs.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 18 years of background providing e-mail, electronic messaging and email/telephony combination solutions for Northern California companies. Progent provides economical Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server consulting services to enhance email security and virus defense, provide high availability email, and implement remote and wireless email connectivity. Progent’s Microsoft Exchange consulting and support services can aid you in designing and implementing a Microsoft Exchange update or a move from a legacy SMPT server or older Microsoft Email software such as Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2000. In addition Progent offers Windows XP and Vista client-side Microsoft Mail help for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook and can show you how to configure Outlook 2003, Outlook 2000, Microsoft Outlook XP, and Outlook Web Access (OWA). For email virus defense and spam blocking, Progent supports Postini managed services and Trend Micro Scanmail. Progent is also an authorized Postini Managed Service Provider (Postini MSP). As a Postini reseller, Progent can help small companies take advantage of Postini’s advanced spam blocking technology.
Progent’s Microsoft certified experts offer a variety of support services for Great Plains Business Software. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is a Microsoft accounting package and business management solution based, like all Microsoft financial solutions, on the scalable and familiar foundation of Windows technology. Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0, the most recent edition of Microsoft accounting software in the Microsoft Great Plains Accounting line, provides a cost-effective solution for managing and integrating accounting, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, CRM, and human resources. Microsoft Great Plains is simple to install and configure, and with its modular approach you are able to license only the capability you currently need, with the option to expand users and enlarge capabilities when necessary. Progent’s Microsoft Great Plains Software consulting engineers can show you how to deploy, configure and manage Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 as well as earlier editions of Great Plains such as Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 and Microsoft Great Plains 7.5.
