Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a significant effect on IT architecture, security/compliance, and company workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can help your Albany organization to pick the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed expertise for getting you past occasional technical bottlenecks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent can help Albany, New York businesses to with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-at-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Call Desk augmentation, security monitoring, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Setting up the physical and software infrastructure needed to support an at-home workforce can be especially complex if you must manage a mix of worker-owned equipment such as PCs and notebooks, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from various vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's background delivering remote support for both legacy as well as modern technologies in remote office solutions enables you to make cost-effective use of your available network infrastructure and provides you with ready access to expertise for making essential updates. Support services available from Progent to help you to implement a productive work-at-home infrastructure include:

  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity allows you to create a safe connection for authenticated remote employees to use IT resources located at your company datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent can assist your company to configure and maintain VPN connections between your teleworkers and your various network resources by providing online VPN configuration support. For businesses using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA experts can assist your at-home workers to utilize Cisco's popular AnyConnect software for secure VPN connections for a broad selection of devices including Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms allow a teleworker to see and use a data center computer's desktop. This provides network managers substantial control over the computing environment of at-home employees and offers them a familiar experience. Progent's virtual desktop services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI solutions.
  • Routers attach at-home networks to the Internet and support VPN connections, local Wi-Fi connectivity, and firewalls. Progent offers top-tier online consulting for setting up home routers from a range of vendors. See router integration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wireless networks, often shared by an entire household and guests, are commonly utilized by telecommuters to connect to their Internet router for work. This can cause performance and security problems. Progent can help businesses to mitigate these problems by delivering services that include Cisco Aironet configuration consulting, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi deployment expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless AP integration assistance.
  • Internet connectivity methods impact the speed and reliability of connections between telecommuters and the company data center. Line-of-business applications may demand redundant Internet access in the event the normal connection breaks. Progent offers expertise for identifying ISPs, selecting sensible bandwidth and data volume packages, and configuring redundant Internet access. See Internet connectivity integration services.

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about building and managing an efficient telecommuter environment for your Albany, New York organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.