Albany, New York Microsoft Premier Certified Exchange Experts
Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 Implementation Architecture Consulting, Migration Consulting, and Troubleshooting Experts
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have more than two decades of background assisting companies to plan, set up, and maintain messaging solutions based on Microsoft Exchange Server. For companies in Albany New York, Progent provides a range of budget-friendly Microsoft Exchange design and maintenance services to ensure that your organization's messaging system delivers:
Data security and compliance
Inbound and outbound malware defense and message content filtering
Dependability
Convenient access for remote and mobile workers
Time-saving administration utilities
Multi-media inboxes with voicemail, Instant Messaging, Presence, and conferencing services
Dependable and fast backup and restoration
Tight coordination of on-premises and cloud-based networks
Progent's Exchange Server consulting and maintenance experts can assist your organization to prepare for and perform non-disruptive migrations from legacy messaging systems to a current Microsoft Exchange platform. Progent's 64-bit upgrade experts can help your company to assess the strategic benefits and costs of moving to a 64-bit edition of Microsoft Exchange Server and can help you to design and execute an economical upgrade plan to a 64-bit version of Microsoft Exchange Server. Progent's Power BI consultants can show you how to utilize information from Exchange files to build modern visualizations to produce collaborative Power BI analytical reports and dashboards. Progent can also assist you to expand your Exchange-based email environment with the latest smartphones by offering BYOD integration services that include iPhone integration and management and Android smartphone integration.
Microsoft allows you to create transparent hybrid environments that combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange deployments. This allows you to have some mailboxes hosted at your physical datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can assist you with any phase of designing, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange consultants can provide occasional expertise to help you through stubborn technical issues and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange initiative is completed on schedule and within budget. For more information about Progent's online consulting support for hybrid Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange environments, go to Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Integration Services
Progent can help you in any facet of your migration to Exchange 2019 including deploying Windows Server 2019 for hosting Exchange; designing high availability (HA) infrastructure for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid environment; moving mailboxes; designing and configuring Hyper-V virtualization; setting up hardware load balancing (HLB); configuring Database Availability Groups (DAGs) with MCDB caching; integrating with Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business 2019 for cloud voicemail; integration with SharePoint; preparing firewalls; integration with Microsoft 365; and configuring Outlook. For details, visit Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2019 integration services.
MS Exchange 2016 Consulting
Exchange 2016's new design permits easier implementation and scale, more efficient use of equipment, and lower administration cost. Microsoft Exchange 2016 Server also offers closer connectivity with Microsoft 365 apps, operation with Windows Server 2016, higher I/O performance, improved DLP, and more rapid recovery, more extensive support for iOS and Android mobile devices, comprehensive web-based administration, and a more complete web client. Learn more concerning Progent's Exchange 2016 Server consulting.
Exchange 2013 Deployment
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 incorporates significant enhancements to the functionality of its predecessor Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and introduces important innovations as well as a revamped structure. These enhancements affect vital facets of IT including manageability, high availability (HA), security and compliance, cost of ownership, teamwork, expandability, throughput, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange 2013 consulting professionals can help you evaluate the potential business benefits of upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2013, design an efficient validation and rollout plan, and train your IT staff to maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 solution. Progent also offers affordable remote support and management for Exchange 2013. Learn more details concerning Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 help.
MS Exchange Server 2010 delivered game-changing technology for fault-tolerant, protected, unified communications. In comparison to Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2003, MS Exchange 2010 is more economical to deploy and maintain, easier to manage and scale, richer in features, higher performance, less subject to single-point failure, more extensive in its support for mobile users, and better equipped to protect business data and defend against hacker assaults. Read more details about Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server consulting services.
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server Help
MS Exchange Server 2007 is designed to address the demands for data security, ubiquitous connectivity, speed, and dependability. Exchange Server 2007 provides built-in resilience that enables world-class robustness to keep your Exchange environment operating smoothly, defend against spam and malicious email, and help your business to be compliant with government and industry standards. Learn more concerning Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 consulting services.
MS Exchange 2003 Server Support
MS Exchange 2003 offers a dependable, expandable, and easy-to-manage infrastructure with 24×7 messaging and collaboration as well as reasonable licensing cost. Exchange Server 2003 remains widely used because it supports a broad range of collaborative activities, including group scheduling capabilities, chat groups, and team folders, and also allows access to information across geographic, logical, and protocol boundaries with functions such as Instant Messaging, low latency data, and video conferencing. Although Microsoft has withdrawn support for this older platform, Exchange Server 2003 is still among the most widely used editions of Microsoft's Exchange family. Progent's consultants can assist you to maintain your existing Exchange Server 2003 environment or upgrade to a more advanced version of Microsoft Exchange. Read more information concerning Progent's MS Exchange 2003 consulting.
MS Exchange 2K Help
In contrast to Exchange 5.5, which has its own directory, MS Exchange 2000 utilizes Microsoft Active Directory, providing a greatly simplified administration and security architecture. Microsoft has terminated support for this venerable platform and it is time to upgrade. Progent's veteran messaging engineers have decades of experience supporting Exchange Server 2000 and can help your company to migrate affordably to a newer incarnation of this popular messaging technology. Learn more details concerning Progent's Exchange Server 2000 support services.
Exchange 2016 Server Migration Consulting
Progent can help your business with all stages of your Exchange Server 2016 migration including coexistence, piloting, moving mailboxes, decommissioning and training. Progent's consultants can assist you to evaluate the strategic benefits of deploying Exchange 2016, design and carry out an efficient migration, and deliver as-needed troubleshooting. Progent can help your business to create a Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 ecosystem that utilizes local and/or cloud-based datacenters. Learn more about ways that Progent's MS Exchange 2016 migration consulting services can help you to upgrade affordably from your current Exchange environment to Exchange 2016.
MS Exchange 2013 Upgrade Support Services
Exchange Server 2013 delivers significant improvements its predecessor Microsoft Exchange 2010 and offers powerful new functions as well as a streamlined design. Progent's consultants can help your business to upgrade to MS Exchange 2013 Server utilizing as much as feasible of your existing infrastructure. Progent can also assist you to configure MS Exchange 2013 Server with Lync, SharePoint, and Office or Microsoft 365 for advanced collaboration support and eSearch capabilities. Learn how Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2013 Server migration consulting experts can help you migrate efficiently to Microsoft Exchange 2013 Server for local, cloud, or hybrid deployments.
MS Exchange 2010 Migration Consulting Services
Progent can provide comprehensive help for every step of your Exchange Server 2010 upgrade with services that include outsourced or co-sourced project management, site readiness preparation, project planning, cost estimates of all new software and hardware required, suggested vendor sourcing, system verification at customer location or at Progent's test lab, setting up temporary coexistence of MS Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2007, implementation the production system, decommissioning the old system, and webinar training for customer's IT staff and end users. Find out more about ways that Progent's MS Exchange Server 2010 Migration Support Services can assist your business to transition economically and efficiently from your legacy Exchange Server environment to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Spam and Virus Filtering, Data Loss Protection plus Email Content Filtering and Email Encryption ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering, data loss prevention and email encryption solution that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Email Guard Spam Filtering, Virus Blocking, Content Filtering and Data Loss Protection.
Upgrade Consulting for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business
Progent's Microsoft Teams experts and Microsoft-certified Skype for Business consultants can provide online and on-premises consulting services for organizations of all sizes to evaluate the benefits of migrating to Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business from any version of Lync Server or Office Communications Server. Progent can help you to plan an on-premises, cloud or mixed topology; interface Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business with Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Microsoft 365; configure high-availability solutions; connect Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business with your PSTN gateway; and interface with third-party collaboration platforms like Cisco UC. Progent's certified information security consultants can assist you design and validate a security environment for your Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business solution that is compliant with government and industry requirements.
How to Contact Progent for Microsoft Exchange Server Consulting and Troubleshooting
If your New York company is trying to find an Exchange technology support specialist, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.
The Helpdesk service delivery structure used by Progent's Technical Response Center offers small businesses an efficient option to reliance on independent service individuals by offering extensive technical knowledge shared by multiple engineering groups, optional 24x7 availability of emergency assistance, escalation capability to appropriate experts for handling the most complex problems, support consistency and reliability, prompt follow through overseen by veteran IT service administrators, a variety of convenient mechanisms for initiating service jobs, plus excellent progress transparency made possible by trouble ticket tracking and accessible through a web portal.
Progent's support specialists in Mac and Windows technology can show you how to combine Apple Macintosh and Windows computers into cohesive networks with full sharing and workgroup support. Allowing efficient co-existence among a mix of servers and workstations powered by Mac OS and Microsoft Windows calls for broad knowledge of and background with Apple Macintosh and Microsoft products. Progent's experience in Windows and Apple consulting makes it possible to provide world class assistance to companies that rely on these technologies to keep their competitive edge. Progent can also help your business to interface Apple's iPhones and iPads with your Windows network.
Progent can give you access to experts who can customize your Microsoft Business Solutions ERP, MRP, and financial system applications to suit your specific business requirements. Progent's Microsoft consultants offer experience in Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Axapta, Microsoft Microsoft Navision, Microsoft Solomon, and Microsoft Retail Management Software. Progent also offers custom e-Commerce integration services for safe, company-wide information sharing plus interfacing with Customer Relationship Management packages.
Progent offers the assistance of a certified VMware VCDX consultant to help your organization design, configure, manage and troubleshoot VMware vSphere-powered virtualization solution for on-premises networks, private and public clouds, or hybrid cloud deployments. Progent offers advanced knowledge for deploying and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware's NSX virtual network system for disaster recovery and application continuity. Progent has extensive experience of VMware vCloud Director (vCD), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator and vCloud used for administering private and hybrid cloud solutions that provide high uptime, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
Cisco's Small Business series of access points are Linux-based units designed as entry-level Wi-Fi APs for light workloads. Progent's Cisco CCIE Wi-Fi network consultants can provide remote or on-premises integration and troubleshooting services to assist you to design, implement, upgrade, tune, manage and debug Cisco Small Business wireless access point deployments of any size or topology.
Forefront TMG 2010 is based on the proven security technologies of Microsoft ISA Server 2006 and provides a centrally managed web gateway that acts as a single-server platform for an array of security functions including an application and network layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, malware inspection, IPS, application proxy, Virtual Private Network control, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 includes advanced web security logging and reporting features, allows custom reporting generated by SQL Server, works with Active Directory to streamline policy enforcement, and can be operated as a virtual machine to cut costs and enhance recoverability. Progent's Microsoft engineers can help you to plan and carry out test and production deployments; integrate Forefront Threat Management Gateway with Windows Server 2008 R2, AD, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and SharePoint; install Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 to operate on a virtual server with Windows Hyper-V; and deliver continuing consulting and repair services. Progent's consultants can also help you to upgrade smoothly to Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 from Microsoft ISA Server 2006 or 2004.
Progent can help companies of any size to move any part of their network infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. This can simplify network administration and lower hardware expense. Azure includes a wealth of cloud services and Progent can help you to evaluate the benefits and limitations of different cloud computing architectures you can use with Azure. Progent can help you administer cloud-resident or hybrid cloud and on-premises apps and resources and make sure you sidestep the common errors small companies make when moving to the cloud. Progent can assist you to configure VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, utilize cloud storage with Azure Storage, manage user identity with Azure Active Directory, and create transparent backup services with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you to prepare firewalls and IPsec VPN connections and to integrate iPhones and iPads and Google Android smartphones and tablets.
Progent's seasoned team of IT consultants and subject matter specialists have extensive experience delivering online and onsite assistance for organizations of any size who need to integrate Android phones and tablets into their information networks so that mobile clients can communicate and collaborate while on the go. Progent offers the range of skills to resolve network problems that involve multiple vendors and that represent a mix of legacy and up-to-date information technology. Progent offers budget-friendly remote consulting to help you with any facet of designing, implementing, managing and troubleshooting your Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) environment. Progent can provide occasional technical support to assist you to handle particularly stubborn technical issues, or Progent can provide outsourced or co-sourced project management services to ensure that you finish major network projects on schedule and on budget. Progent can help with on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid network environments and offers support for all major operating systems, applications, management utilities and hardware infrastructure. Progent also can provide customized group or one-on-one classes to show you how to manage and use Android phones and tablets efficiently.
Progent can help your business to understand the wealth of subscription options available with Microsoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, and integrate your information network with Microsoft 365 so you derive top business value. Progent supports cross-vendor environments that include Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also help your business to create and maintain hybrid solutions that seamlessly combine on-premises and cloud-based resources.
For companies that have a mix of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows desktops, there exist two basic solutions for using Windows-dependent applications on macOS or OS X: an external connection to an actual Windows computer or local emulation of a Windows environment on a computer. Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection Client for Apple Mac allows you to attach an Apple Mac to a networked Microsoft Windows-based PC to use Microsoft Windows software and access system resources. Virtual PC for Apple Mac emulates Microsoft Windows on an Apple Mac system so that you are able to run Microsoft Windows programs locally. Progent's macOS and Mac OS X technology support experts can help you to maintain these products for using Microsoft Windows applications on your Apple Macs and can in addition help you to assess and install other products for Microsoft Windows platform simulation.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a proven ransomware recovery expert who can help you to halt the spread of an ongoing ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service offers advanced virtual server technology, a world-class data center, and the technical expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team to provide small and midsize companies with a comprehensive information technology outsourcing alternative that improves network dependability and security, eliminates management hassle, and saves money. With Private Cloud Hosting, a small or midsize business can have all of its software platforms and key application servers hosted in a safe and fault tolerant facility on a high-performance, non-stop virtual machine configured and maintained by Progent's network service experts.
Microsoft Exchange and Macintosh computers can work together efficiently. Progent's Apple and Microsoft certified experts can show you how to set up Microsoft Entourage and Microsoft Exchange Server so your Mac users can work closely with colleagues who run Outlook. With Microsoft Exchange and Entourage for Mac, Exchange and Mac systems can coexist, allowing Mac users to get and transmit email, examine the GAL, import addresses, synchronize appointments, and alert fellow workers to meetings via your Microsoft Exchange account. Progent will make sure that your Exchange Server is appropriately configured and that WebDAV and Outlook Web Access are enabled. Progent also can provide customized onsite Entourage education.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to maintain Microsoft System Center 2007 Configuration Manager to simplify administration, improve security, and boost productivity by ensuring that operating systems and applications are always current, tracking product licenses, and monitoring resource usage profiles to help you make smart purchasing choices. Once your organization is set to update your SCCM 2007 change management solution, Progent can help you to plan and implement an efficient move to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
Microsoft Communications Server provides Instant Messaging and Real Presence in an extensible, world-class package offering advanced security, seamless compatibility with popular Microsoft products, an extendable, standards-based development environment, and support for regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your enterprise can realize cost savings and improved operational efficiencies, enhanced individual productivity, and better intellectual property security with this simple-to-administer, fault-tolerant solution. Successful implementations of Microsoft Office Communications Server call for careful planning and thought prior to installation. Progent's Microsoft-authorized professionals can deliver the expertise necessary to deliver all the benefits of Microsoft Office Communications Server across your whole organization.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 features outstanding levels of speed, security, availability, expandability, and versatility that improve output of local, remote, and mobile users. Progent's network experts can deliver affordable online engineering, technical support, and education services to assist your company to plan, implement, and maintain Windows Server 2008 R2 to add significant business value to your information system.
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting and Management service provides complete hosting of a small or mid-size organization's production servers in an environment that delivers the highest degree of availability and expandability and is also simple to migrate to any data center. ProSight Virtual Hosting and management services are based on mature virtualization platforms that enable small companies with multi- platform IT systems to economize dramatically on the expense of capital equipment, infrastructure support, and IT administration while achieving world-class fault tolerance and an unprecedented level of vendor flexibility.
Progent's certified Excel and Office 365 Excel consultants offer a wide range of online support services to assist you to design, develop, pilot test, deploy, administer, and troubleshoot applications powered by any release of Microsoft Excel, including Excel Online and Office 365 Excel. Progent can assist your business to move your existing Excel applications to the newest versions of Excel, integrate Excel with iOS-powered iPhones and iPads and Android phones and tablets, and resolve compatibility issues between various versions of Excel. Progent offers as-needed support to clients looking for a fast fix to a stubborn problem associated with Excel and Progent also offers full project management services for upgrading or creating mission-critical applications based on Excel. Progent's cost-effective online training for Excel can be customized to meet the special requirements of individual users or teams.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall.
Progent offers one-on-one training designed for individuals who wish to expand their understanding of the Apple macOS and OS X operating system, Apple Mac computers, or Mac office software including Word, Excel, and Outlook for Mac. Progent also can provide customized group or one-on-one webinar training for Mac applications.
Progent's Help Desk outsourcing and co-sourcing services help organizations to reduce costs, improve output, and adjust immediately to fast-changing economic environments.
Progent's Microsoft-Certified SQL Server engineers offer a range of support services to assist small businesses to design, deploy, manage, and repair MS SQL Server 2008 systems so that they receive the maximum business benefit from this state-of-the-art RDBM technology. In addition, Progent offers expertise for network infrastructure, enterprise-wide security, and custom software programming to optimize the business benefit of your computer investment.
Progent can provide the affordable support of remote Internet connectivity consultants to help your company to evaluate or update your Internet services so your Internet access solution aligns with your business needs. Services provided by Progent include evaluation of your current bandwidth utilization, carrier and service plan comparison and selection, network provisioning, and overseeing a seamless move to a new ISP and/or service arrangement. Provisioning can include enhancing current routers and deploying new ones, implementing firewalls, and designing fault-tolerant BGP configurations.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a proven ransomware recovery expert who can assist your business to contain the progress of an ongoing ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting engineers can help your organization to assess the value of Exchange 2010 for your company and can assist you to design and implement an efficient migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 from Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server that will provide fast payback by increasing your workers' efficiency, cutting the expense of hardware and service, simplifying management, and integrating your vital communications technologies.
If you have a company IT system with 10 to 50 desktop users, Progent's computer outsourcing services free your company from over-reliance on single independent service provider while giving you cost-effective and dependable access to enterprise-class network expertise. By delivering IT consulting help when you require it, offering specialized expertise for key applications, delivering value-added services such as 24x7 server monitoring, and billing only for services you use, Progent offers you an economical way for maximizing the productivity and profitability of your small business network. Progent is the smart way for small organizations to build and support a robust and safe IT system and to benefit from quick access to the skilled support typically restricted to enterprises who can support a sizeable in-house IT organization.
Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and medium-size businesses to design, implement, tune, manage, and debug computer networks that support telecommuters.
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 builds on the powerful security technologies of Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 and offers a easily administered web gateway that acts as a one-server platform for an array of security features such as an application and network layer firewall, URL filtering, malware inspection, IPS, application proxy, Virtual Private Network management, and HTTP and HTTPS inspection. Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 provides advanced web security reporting features, allows custom reports powered by SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to simplify policy enforcement, and can be operated as a virtual server to cut expenses and enhance availability. Progent's Microsoft engineers can assist your company to design and carry out test and production implementations; interface Forefront Threat Management Gateway with Windows 2008 R2, Active Directory, SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and SharePoint; install Forefront TMG 2010 to operate on a virtual server with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V; and deliver ongoing consulting and repair services. Progent's consultants can also assist you to upgrade economically to Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway from Microsoft ISA Server 2006 or 2004.
Cisco offers a full array of routers that includes routers built to provide the security, bandwidth, and reliability required by organizations ranging from small offices to global enterprises. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, automatic failthrough, and redundant power for improved fault tolerance and network uptime. Progent can help you choose and configure Cisco routers to build a reliable infrastructure for your network and to make it easy to grow as you support new users, open new offices, deploy new services, extend your network to clients and partners, and support a more mobile workforce. Progent offers expertise in a variety of routers based on Cisco's IOS operating system, including Cisco's 800 family of small office VPN routers, Cisco 2800 and 3800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 3900 and 4000 G2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for wide area network edge environments, CRS Carrier Routing System for core Networks, as well as legacy 2500 and 2700 Routers.
For assistance creating, enhancing, or troubleshooting business aplications for Microsoft Windows, Linux, or the Web, Progent's expert team of programmers, database architects, and project managers can help make sure you get the project done on schedule and within your budget. Progent's experienced software developers offer cost-effective and expert online help for jobs as simple as creating VBA macros for Office Excel or as large as developing mission-critical RDBMS applications built on SQL Server or MySQL.