Immediate Remote Help for Anchorage Alaska Computer Systems
For businesses in Anchorage Alaska, Progent provides remote support for networks based on any mix of Microsoft Windows, Cisco, Apple macOS and OS X, or Linux/UNIX technology. Progent's Microsoft Premier consulting experts have provided remote troubleshooting to companies in all 50 states in the U.S. (Check out testimonials from Progent's customers.) Progent also can furnish the expertise of Cisco CCIE network specialists to help with challenging networking issues, as well as the assistance of CISA and CISSP-certified cybersecurity experts to help with advanced security design and troubleshooting jobs.
Progent's remote technical support engineers offer excellent leverage due to the fact that they possess the practical experience and are equipped with the sophisticated technology needed to solve most network problems quickly. Efficient support lowers direct expenses since solutions use up fewer chargeable consulting minutes. Remote support also eliminates the cost of dispatching a consultant to your site. Your organization saves even more in indirect costs by minimizing or eliminating system downtime and related costs resulting from business disruption, upset customers and vendors, unproductive employees, and distracted executives. Progent's advanced remote technical support expertise is particularly important for businesses that rely on public clouds for vital network infrastructure or software like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, Amazon AWA, Google Cloud Platform, or where on-premises support may not be an option.
Progent's pricing model for remote help is designed to stretch your IT service investment. Progent charges per minute for telephone-based assistance, so you owe just for the services that you receive. In contrast to many remote service firms, Progent requires no service activation surcharge or minimum fees. Progent's one-minute granularity and clean model for pricing eliminate scenarios where fast repairs manage to end up as major bills. Progent's penchant for disposing of problems quickly means you spends less cash.
Progent's Online Consulting and Technical Support Expertise
Over time, Progent has refined a set of optimized technologies and proven processes that promote the highest degree of effectiveness for online consulting and troubleshooting for computer networks of any size. Progent offers safe Virtual Private Network support for VPN gateways from a variety of popular companies including Microsoft, Cisco, SonicWall and Checkpoint. Protected VPN access permits the engineers of Progent's remote service group to access your environment remotely without violating system security.
Progent's proven customer support database system maintains extensive histories of all support that Progent's customers have received. Progent's staff consultants have the benefit of the specifics of all help rendered to every customer by any Progent consultant. This archive of problems and responses is stored as a conveniently retrievable proprietary database that permits Progent's online support professionals to communicate their knowledge with the whole team to make sure that the effectiveness of Progent's support services grows over time. Progent's extensive list of certifications and working associations with important industry leaders such as Cisco and Microsoft make available additional massive technical knowledge bases and allow priority response from vendors' internal support staff with the result that Progent's remote service experts are able to find optimal solutions quickly.
Remote technical support services offered by Progent to companies in Anchorage Alaska include:
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Certified Windows Experts
Progent's Microsoft-certified remote support engineers can deliver computer troubleshooting and IT help for all Microsoft server technologies. Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and can provide your organization the expertise of consulting professionals who can help your company with a broad variety of platform support services including Windows Server 2022 planning and migration services,
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 migration,
Windows Server 2016 configuration for hybrid environments, Windows Server 2012 R2 integration,
Windows Server 2008 maintenance,
Microsoft Exchange 2019 Server deployment,
MS Exchange 2016 migration, Exchange Server 2013 configuration,
Exchange 2010 maintenance,
SharePoint Server 2019 planning and deployment, SharePoint 2016 migration and hybrid integration consulting, Microsoft Teams integration, Microsoft Skype for Business Server migration consulting, Microsoft Lync Server management, and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 troubleshooting,
Forefront TMG 2010 management and ISA Server 2006 migration, Microsoft SQL Server 2019 integration expertise, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 expertise, SQL Server 2016 integration and programming and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 consulting,
Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) system monitoring,
Project Server planning,
Microsoft Access Application Development and Troubleshooting,
SBS Server 2011 support, and
Windows Essentials migration and cloud integration.
Progent also can deliver a wide range of affordable PC desktop support services to assist you company to install, integrate, repair, and administer workstations and laptops based on Microsoft Windows. Progent's PC desktop support services cover areas such as providing Windows 11 planning and migration consulting and Windows 10 integration consulting, plus System Center 2012 Configuration Manager design and installation, Microsoft System Center 2016 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2016) hybrid cloud integration, and Intune consulting to streamline the management of your desktops along with your web-facing tablets and smartphones.
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Talk to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) for High-level Network Problem Solving
The Cisco CCIE certification is the highest recognition for networking engineers, and certifies a person's networking knowledge at the master level. Cisco CCIEs know how to handle the most stubborn challenges occurring in network infrastructure planning, deployment, administration, security, and repair. Cisco qualified CCIEs work on a privileged basis with Cisco's in-house engineers in isolating problems with IOS network administration utilities and coming up with workarounds or identifying program patches. Cisco qualified CCIEs offer excellent value since their broad expertise enables them to fix problems quickly. In typical instances, less seasoned consultants can struggle for hours or days with the same problems that a CCIE can dispose of in minutes. Progent's Cisco CCIE certified support experts can connect to your environment via the latest remote troubleshooting tools in order to provide fast, secure, and economical analysis and repair.
Alaska State Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Alaska.
Progent locations in Alaska State
Progent's Cisco CCIEs can provide help for the entire range of Cisco's popular family of infrastructure appliances by offering services that include:
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Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is intended to help organizations to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineer can assist you to identify and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your Anchorage network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For more information, see Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.
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Ransomware Removal Help
Progent's ransomware recovery experts can help your Anchorage business to restore a network breached by a ransomware attack like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, LockBit or Egregor. Progent's team of IT security experts bring the wide selection of knowledge necessary to rebuild all critical facets of a compromised system quickly and with little loss of data. To find out more, see Progent's ransomware cleanup and business continuity expertise.
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CISSP, ISSAP, and CISM Certified Network Security Consultants
Progent's qualified CISSP and CISSP-ISSAP cybersecurity consultants can provide a range of security services that can enhance the immunity of your Microsoft Windows, macOS and OS X, or Linux network against internal or external threats or help your business to clean up rapidly after a damaging breach. Security consulting services offered by Progent cover comprehensive information security analysis utilizing tools such as GFI LANguard, AMAP Application Scanner, and software from Solar Winds tools and Netcat; fast cleanup after malicious assaults; setting up firewalls; establishing secure mechanisms for remote and mobile access; protecting your messaging infrastructure from spam and DHA attacks; and instituting round-the-clock proactive monitoring.
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Cloud Integration Solutions
Progent can provide advanced online consulting to help companies of all sizes connect their information networks with popular public clouds including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Progent can help you to design and administer hybrid environments that support Windows and Linux systems and apps in either cloud-centric systems or in hybrid topologies that utilize local resources along with cloud services. To help you to integrate public cloud services with physical datacenters, Progent offers a range of public cloud migration services such as Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-prem installations of Exchange,
Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud planning and deployment services, Amazon Web Services hybrid cloud integration support, Amazon Web Marketing Service programming and debugging, and Google Cloud integration consulting. Progent has more than 20 years of experience providing high-level consulting support remotely, and Progent can make sure you successfully carry out your cloud migration initiatives quickly and within your budget.
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VMware Site Recovery Manager and NSX Consulting
VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a component of VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and verify a repeatable workflow for recovering applications and services quickly after a breakdown. SRM supports centrally managed and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also enables transparent testing for site recovery, updates and fixes and can produce audit reports to confirm complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help your organization to design, deploy, test and administer a disaster recovery system based on VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Progent's VMware vSphere consultants have extensive experience of VMware vCloud Director, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator and vCloud tools for administering private and public cloud and hybrid cloud solutions that deliver maximum availability, data security, and disaster recovery. Progent can also provide advanced VMware NSX consulting from a VCDX-NV certified network designer to assist your organization to build a completely virtualized Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) that can be set up or migrated in minutes and managed with a high degree of automation independent of the hardware used by the basic IP network.
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UNIX, Linux, Solaris, and macOS and OS X Support Services
Progent's UNIX/Linux experts and Apple macOS and OS X technology specialists offer phone-based support services to cover a broad range of computer technologies such as system architecture, email solutions, system and process security, plus UNIX and Microsoft Windows integration. For server hardware economization and easy administration in environments that include Linux and Microsoft Windows, Progent can provide VMware vSphere consulting and Citrix XenServer support. Progent can also help with transitioning from older applications to Microsoft Windows or Linux-based environments. Progent's group-oriented approach to resolving technical issues promotes quick escalation, when required, to engineers with task-relevant experience to tackle complex situations. This accelerates solutions of critical problems, reduces network downtime, and cuts service costs.
Progent's UNIX and Linux consultants can offer urgent remote assistance analyzing problems within UNIX/Linux networks based on leading derivatives of UNIX such as:
Mac OS X
Sun Solaris
IBM AIX Open UNIX
HP-UX
Berkeley UNIX (BSD)
Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX)
ProSight Fixed-price Managed Services for Small and Mid-size Businesses
Progent offers a selection of budget-friendly, fixed-price services intended to allow small and mid-size organizations to benefit from the same best-of-breed technology used by many of the industry's leading enterprises. The ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services addresses all critical facets of modern networking including email protection, security and compliance, automated backup/recovery, network infrastructure health monitoring, VM hosting, and IT resources documentation management. ProSight managed services include:
- ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint security and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security and Exchange Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.
- ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS): Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of management outsourcing plans that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of vital files/folders, apps, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you avoid data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.
- Progent's Patch Management: Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services allow your IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.
- ProSight Duo Two-Factor Authentication: Access Security, Endpoint Policy Enforcement, and Secure Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a device that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad selection of devices can be utilized for this added means of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for access security.
- ProSight Reporting: Real-time Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Platforms
ProSight Reporting is a growing line of real-time management reporting plug-ins created to integrate with the top ticketing and network monitoring programs such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and utilizes color coding to highlight and contextualize key issues like inconsistent support follow-through or endpoints with missing patches. By identifying ticketing or network health problems clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting improves network value, reduces management hassle, and saves money. For more information, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring platforms.
- ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Management
ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it simple and affordable for small and mid-sized organizations to diagram, track, optimize and troubleshoot their networking hardware such as switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers as well as servers, printers, endpoints and other networked devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art RMM technology, WAN Watch makes sure that infrastructure topology maps are always updated, captures and displays the configuration information of virtually all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and generates notices when potential issues are discovered. By automating complex network management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks like making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding appliances that require critical software patches, or resolving performance bottlenecks. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure monitoring and management services.
- ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring Services
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop monitoring service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to help keep your network running at peak levels by tracking the health of critical computers that drive your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alarm is sent automatically to your designated IT personnel and your assigned Progent consultant so all looming issues can be resolved before they can disrupt your network Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring services.
- ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and low-cost alternative for small and mid-size organizations to obtain an unbiased assessment of the overall health of their information system. Powered by some of the leading remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms in the industry, and supervised by Progent's certified group of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the configuration of your essential infrastructure assets adhere to best practices. Both the Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and deliver immediate ROI like a cleaner Active Directory environment. Both versions also include a year of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management (RMM). Benefits can include lower-cost management, better compliance with information security requirements, higher utilization of IT resources, quicker problem resolution, more reliable backup and recovery, and higher availability. See more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure review.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an affordable service based on a brief phone discussion with a Progent backup/recovery consultant. The fact-finding interview is intended to evaluate your organization's ability to stop or recover rapidly following an attack by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, WannaCry, MongoLock, or Locky. Progent will work with you personally to gather information concerning your current antivirus tools and backup/recovery system, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can apply industry best practices to create an efficient AV and backup environment that meets your business needs. For details, refer to The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
Special Support Programs Offered by Progent
Progent can provide the skills of seasoned remote consulting experts for contract information technology projects. Progent's charges for ongoing consulting projects are determined based on the level of expertise of the engineers required. Progent's background in these special areas of information technology enables customers to execute critical projects economically and on schedule. Progent's special remote consulting solutions include:
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Help Desk Expertise
Progent's Help Desk Call Center service offerings for companies with networks that incorporate Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux products include comprehensive Help Desk Call Center services, shared Helpdesk support services, and Call Center consulting.
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services provide smaller organizations a comprehensive service desk solution that handles all facets of remote desktop technical support from initial requests through trouble ticket generation, screen sharing, progress tracking, problem solving, and management reports. Progent offers call desk services at a significant discount from Progent's normal desktop support rates, and Progent offers the additional option of fast as-needed escalation to subject matter experts to handle the most problems.
Progent's Help Desk consulting support can aid you in creating an efficient new Call Center or enhancing your established organization, identifying or enhancing Call Center software products to address the unique needs of your company, or providing occasional phone support personnel to work with your existing Help Desk Call Center team to deal with high-demand events such as software migrations, mass updates, or rolling out new business software.
Progent's Call Center staff of seasoned information technology consultants provides your workers in Anchorage Alaska fast access to a large support resource with years of experience delivering phone support and online diagnostics for networks based on Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux components. Progent's charter is to give the Call Center the reputation as a significant enabler of company efficiency, and Progent's aim is to solve and not simply report technical issues.
- Business Applications Services: Training, Development, and Troubleshooting
Progent's Applications Experts Group offers online and in-depth engineering support and training in specific application fields that include ERP, MRP, custom programming for accounting packages, and Customer Relationship Management. Progent also offers expertise, custom development, and training for Microsoft business applications including CRM, MS Office Project, Office Word, and Office Excel. For more concerning Progent's expertise, custom development, and training offerings, visit Progent's Applications Experts Team.
- Centralized and Streamlined Administration of Hybrid Cloud Environments
Microsoft System Center unifies and automates the management of hybrid cloud environments by offering comprehensive integration with Windows Server 2022, Windows 10 and Windows 11; cohesive integration of multi-OS environments that include various Linux distributions, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and expanded public and private cloud support including tighter integration with Intune for iPhone and Google Android smartphone management plus built-in integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics and reporting. Progent's System Center consultants can provide world-class online and on-premises support for all components of System Center2including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager (SCSM). Progent can help you to plan and configure a new deployment of System Center2, expand or optimize your current one, migrate efficiently from a previous release of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center environment.
- Online Hybrid Network Monitoring Services
Progent offers businesses in Anchorage Alaska remote hybrid network monitoring by providing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) expertise. Progent can customize Operations Manager to accommodate your business so that your IT support is proactive and automated. By detecting emerging issues before they result in network outages, system monitoring can minimize inconvenient and costly service breakdowns. Progent can also utilize system monitoring products like Nagios and MRTG Graphical Traffic Load Monitor to troubleshoot UNIX/Linux, Solaris, or macOS and OS X networks, Microsoft systems, or networks that support a variety of OS platforms.
How Your Anchorage Company Can Contact Progent's Remote Support Experts
To get in touch with Progent about emergency remote help with Windows, macOS and OS X, or Linux environments, visit Progent's Nationwide Phone-Based Help, telephone 1-800-993-9400, or see Contact Progent.
For businesses and new ventures in Anchorage Alaska, Progent's phone-based computer support specialists can provide effective and affordable system support the instant your business needs it. Over two decades of offering remote technical assistance has earned Microsoft Partner status for Progent's team of engineers and has allowed Progent to acquire high-end troubleshooting capability and to refine online connectivity tools to repair computer problems quickly while eliminating the cost and lost time that comes with in-person service calls.
Even if your Anchorage organization deals with a regular independent support technician or employs an in-house organization that can deal with common computer issues, Progent's Microsoft certified consultants are available to offer an easy and seamless remote expansion of your on-site resources in cases when your usual service personnel either lack the bandwidth or the expertise to deal with sudden network emergencies or especially complex integration problems.
Benefits of Progent's IT Support for Companies in Anchorage Alaska
Progent's remote technical help services allow your Anchorage organization to have the advantages of on-call, world-class IT support without the cost of maintaining a full-time IT organization. Your network will acquire greater strategic value by becoming more reliable, efficient, and secure. Benefits to your business include:
- Seamless remote expansion of your on-site support resources
For most offices in Anchorage Alaska, local network service resources, whether made up of outside consultants or a full-time maintenance staff, can resolve the majority of network issues. However, serious problems can strike when your regular support personnel are too busy or absent, and some trouble may be associated with technology that is beyond the scope of your onsite support personnel. In these instances, Progent's online service professionals offer an easy, quick, and affordable solution to augment your regular resources and to pass on useful knowledge to improve your capability to resolve future problems locally.
- Reduced Dependence on Freelance Service Providers
For network maintenance, smaller offices often depend on independent freelance consultants. While freelance consultants have smaller overhead than big service firms and can afford to charge lower rates, they are often overbooked, making it hard to respond rapidly to crisis situations. If an independent service provider is busy with another customer, ill, on a trip, or in class, the lack of backup help may force your company to wait for help during an emergency. As your business grows, system downtime and trouble with critical applications become more costly. The budget you thought you were saving on an independent can be eaten up fast by lost productivity. Progent provides a reliable source of reserve service experts to make sure your IT system is always up and running.
- Build a Solid Foundation for Seamless Growth
Companies often start with an IT architecture created on a shoestring budget. Without a robust infrastructure, band-aid repairs can get thrown on top of a shaky foundation. As a network grows, stability and expandability issues can impede the success of the organization. Such badly built environments require careful analysis, smart long-term planning, and broad-based technical knowledge to evolve to a system infrastructure able to provide the solid foundation to handle current business demands and ease downstream growth.
- Work with Problem Solvers Instead of Product Resellers
Smaller companies require advice and technical education to negotiate an increasingly complex maze of product alternatives available for accelerating business success and enhancing productivity. These companies hardly need a network consultant who is motivated to resell a certain vendor's products. Network consulting and product selling can result in a scenario where the recommended
solution is designed around a predetermined product rather than the genuine needs of a business. Progent eliminates these conflicts by offering just services rather than products. This enables Progent to match IT expertise with the real interests of customers.
What Makes Progent Different from Other Support Organizations?
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner support firm and Progent's head count, depth of technical knowledge, refined support tools, and understanding of corporate IT allow offices to avoid the limitations associated with excessive reliance on smaller consulting organizations, individual freelance consultants, or limited in-house resources.
Progent stands out by providing:
- Best Practices
Progent's team of Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified consultants average more than ten years of hands-on professional experience, at the front lines of network support, executing a broad variety of technical projects for an extensive array of clients. Each Progent support professional shares a proven set of personal best practices which are combined into company-wide leading practices training that Progent teaches its consulting staff. This means that you get not just world-class IT capability, but also a consultant with proven approaches for using computer knowledge to fix real-world IT problems quickly.
- Value Pricing
Progent's pricing policy is to bill for phone service and on-premises help per minute. As a result, you pay exclusively for received support. Progent does not demand a higher rate for off-hours or urgent support, and within California or in areas where Progent provides on-site support, Progent does not charge for travel except for urgent support where on-site time is less than 4 hours. Also, Progent imposes no service activation charge and asks no retainer for support services delivered during regular working hours. Many service organizations impose substantial minimum fees or charge for every quarter hour or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity does away with big invoices for quick repairs so you won't be forced to permit less critical problems to stay unaddressed.
- Complete Documentation of Delivered Services
Progent has created a comprehensive support reporting system that stores and organizes complete documentation for all delivered support activities. Unlike some independent consultants or small support firms who provide minimal documentation or details of tasks performed, each service delivered by Progent is tracked by comprehensive documentation. Each Progent consultant has access to the support reports transmitted by every consultant to every customer. The practice of documenting and organizing support records allows more efficient support and eliminates a slew of common problems such as when a support customer is effectively held captive to a consultant who won't let go of vital service information.
- 24x7 Server Monitoring with Microsoft Operations Manager
Progent is one of the only consulting firms to offer 24x7 remote monitoring services based on Microsoft Operations Manager. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager allows your network maintenance to be proactive instead of reactive. By anticipating possible issues before they cause downtime, system monitoring can keep your information network from stressful and expensive service losses.
How Does My Business Begin Receiving Online Computer Help from Progent?
To initiate Progent's online help services or to find out more about Progent's online support options, contact Progent at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368) or see Contact Progent. If you have an urgent requirement for IT help, go to Immediate Network Support.