Bakersfield Microsoft Certified Advisor
Microsoft Dynamics GP Upgrade and Enhancement Consulting and Support Services
Dynamics GP, previously branded Great Plains, sports a longer heritage than almost any other enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution made for Windows. Dynamics GP is a proven, full-featured product and is one of the most popular ERP platforms for SMBs, with around 50,000 active customers globally. Many organizations who have relied on Dynamics GP for years have managed to defer upgrades and maintenance to the point that they now find themselves using legacy software and outmoded IT infrastructure. This can be risky. Meanwhile, a common theme we hear from prospective customers is that they have trouble finding veteran Dynamics GP consultants to partner with for guidance on how to update their Dynamics GP environment efficiently and derive the most benefit from the application.
The longer a business tries to make do with legacy versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP, the more complex the migration procedure becomes. When physical host servers or storage systems break down, there may be no equivalent devices on the market to use as substitutes. When versions of Windows Server used to host Dynamics GP arrive at end-of-support status, vital security patches stop being distributed. Current releases of SQL Server may not work with your special GP customizations. Innovative products such as Microsoft's Power BI may not run. Organizations investigating an update of their Microsoft Dynamics GP deployment are often intimidated by the volume of pieces there are to the puzzle. And the cost suggested for a migration may seem astronomical.
Microsoft Dynamics GP Upgrade and Customization Services Offered by Progent
Progent has offered support for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Great Plains for more than 20 years, and Progent's tested professionals have provided advanced and affordable online consulting for Windows-powered networks to businesses in every state in the U.S. By offering deep experience with all versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP as well as top-tier system integration skills, Progent is ideally suited to help your Bakersfield, California business get the most out of GP.
We partner with our clients and begin by understanding their needs. After gaining familiarity with the situation and the areas needing improvement we provide our suggestions. Proposed services can include an upgrade to a more current and supported release of Dynamics GP, simple user education, complete platform and specific module configuration including 3rd-party modules offered by a wide array of suppliers that have published add-ons to Microsoft Dynamics GP, custom integrations with other key business applications used by organization, custom report writing, and solution analysis to assess whether GP is being used to its fullest. Our goal with each Dynamics GP engagement big or small is to optimize business value and manage expense.
Progent's consultants can assist your Bakersfield, California company in every facet of your Microsoft Dynamics GP migration or customization process including:
- System Assessment
Take a look at what features of Microsoft Dynamics GP you are now using and propose additional features of GP that may be helpful to your business. - Migration Planning and Scheduling
Develop a comprehensive upgrade plan and schedule that avoids business interruption. Schedule pilot testing, live deployment, and education. Specify customizations and add-on products. Predict and resolve integration issues. - Testing
Plan and implement a pilot environment for validating the upgrade project. - System Upgrades
Back up databases and dictionaries, eConnect automation, and GP Integration Manager data. eMigrate Dynamics GP to the latest version to ensure continuing support from Microsoft and to make all the latest features available to your organization. Update SQL Server and compatibility levels for all associated databases. Activate services from the Professional Services Tools Library (pstl). Prepare data and execute scripts to resolve known issues. - Management Reporting
Create reports and or dashboards for private as well as external use. Deploy SQL Server Reporting Services and combine Microsoft Dynamics GP with Power BI for self-service reporting and for combining information from diverse local and remote repositories. - Training
Provide individual or classroom style training for current and first-time users of Dynamics GP. - Support Services
Act as a single contact for support to deliver effective and cost-effective handling of problems made possible by close understanding of your particular environment.
Progent can provide the support of top-tier consultants who have been creating working Microsoft Dynamics GP and Great Plains solutions since version 1. Progent has the skills to do the jobs you need directly instead of managing less knowledgeable consultants or internal staff. Key areas where Progent's consultants can provide Microsoft Dynamics GP expertise include:
- Guidance
Recommend the use of software modules included with the basic GP system but are not now being utilized. Also, suggest third-party add-ons designed specifically for Dynamics GP to provide features that GP doesn't offer. - Integrations
Build custom connections between Microsoft Dynamics GP and other business platforms to avoid redundant entry and improve accuracy. - Customizations
Create big and simple customizations that run with Microsoft Dynamics GP to handle specific functions not addressed by out-of-the-box GP modules or external modules.
Progent can assist your business to upgrade your network infrastructure to support Dynamics GP for any architecture including on-premises, private or public cloud, or a hybrid environment. Network infrastructure services available from Progent's consultants include:
- Requirements assessment and site inventory
- Network topology planning and deployment (on-premises, private or public cloud, or hybrid)
- Configuring security gateways and remote connections and defining security policies
- Managing Apple iOS, Google Android, and Windows smartphones and tablets
- Developing high-availability (HA) environments
- Integration with PaaS and IaaS services such as Office 365
- Disaster recovery preparedness
- Performance optimization
A modern Dynamics GP ecosystem incorporates diverse application platforms, local network infrastructure resources, and public cloud products combined into a cohesive ERP solution. For more than two decades, Progent has provided remote and on-premises support from Microsoft-certified experts including Dynamics GP/Great Plains consultants, Windows Server specialists, SQL Server developers, Exchange integration consultants, Microsoft Office experts, and SharePoint Server integration consultants. Progent's consultants have supported these products from their initial versions to their latest versions, and Progent supports cloud options by offering Office 365 consulting, Exchange Online expertise, and SharePoint Online migration and application development services.
Progent also has extensive experience delivering support from top-tier Cisco CCIE-certified network consultants, Windows Hyper-V planning and integration consultants, and VMware virtual machine specialists. This background with strategic technologies cuts time and expense when helping organizations through each aspect of updating their legacy Dynamics GP deployment. Progent also offers the skills of senior security and information assurance experts, disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness consultants, application developers, hybrid cloud integration experts, and SQL Server DBAs who can help you to plan, implement, and manage a well-tuned Dynamics GP solution.
Progent's Support Expertise for Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP Solutions
For more about Progent's remote and on-premises consulting services in Bakersfield, California for Dynamics GP/Great Plains Enterprise Resource Planning product family, refer to:
- Dynamics GP Support Services
- Dynamics GP 2015 Expertise
- MS Dynamics GP/Great Plains Program Features
- Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP Features and Benefits
- Expertise with Microsoft Dynamics GP Reporting
- Dynamics GP Custom Software Development
To download a datasheet describing the consulting services available from Progent for Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains software, select
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Configuration SQL Server 2012 Migration
IT Consultant SQL Server 2012 Migration
Progent offers the support of certified engineers as well as seasoned database application developers, database administrators, project management experts, Cisco-certified network architects, disaster recovery planning specialists, and data security consultants to help your business to assess the potential advantages of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your business, install pilot environments at your datacenter or at Progent's test lab, plan and execute out a smooth migration to SQL Server 2012 from earlier releases of SQL Server or from other database solutions, and define an efficient and secure network infrastructure that helps you realize the full business benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Linux Remote Technical Support
Professionals Ubuntu Linux
If your company is producing UNIX or Linux applications in an environment that has Microsoft Windows-based processors, PCs, and office applications, Progent offers full-service IT outsourcing that allows you to focus on your area of high-value know-how without the continual distraction of managing your company information system. By using smart network monitoring and by delivering online and on-site assistance when your company needs it, Progent offers an affordable alternative for managing an information system that provides excellent dependability, security, and performance. Progent's UNIX/Linux developer support services include comprehensive it outsourcing, virtual server infrastructure, online and on-premises service and repair, network monitoring services, and Help Desk services.
Citrix desktop virtualization Consult
Open Now Consultants virtual Windows desktops
For Windows desktop virtualization, Progent can provide the expertise of a Citrix XenDesktop consultant who can help you to design a XenDesktop environment that improves the business impact of your IT system; integrate XenDesktop technology with your physical and virtual servers, end-user computers, and peripherals; upgrade your existing desktop virtualization software to current releases of XenDesktop; and deliver comprehensive remote technical support. Progent can also train your network managers to follow industry leading practices to maintain XenDesktop efficiently.
24/7 network piloting Lab Specialist
Herakles Colocation Center Test Lab Engineer
Progent's Test and Training Lab at the QTS Data Center can be used for testing mission-critical applications, creating cost-effective system upgrade methodologies, evaluating and optimizing performance, designing or verifying business continuity solutions, mitigating compatibility problems, and establishing training systems for new technologies. For Progent customers without sufficient in-house resources to configure proper pilot environments, the lab cuts capital costs and engineering risk while keeping critical network projects on schedule.
MAS 90 Engineer
After Hours ERP Contract Programming Firm
Progent can provide you with application developers who can modify your Microsoft Business Solutions ERP, MRP, and financial system packages to meet your particular company requirements. Progent’s Microsoft consultants offer experience in Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Software, Microsoft Dynamics NAV Business Management Software, Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 Accounting Software, and Microsoft Retail Management Software. Progent also offers expert e-Commerce consulting support for safe, corporate-wide resource sharing plus integration with CRM packages.
Dynamics GP Software IT Consulting
24 Hour Dynamics GP Great Plains Software Integration Services
Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains allows you to expand and control your business better by delivering deep access to decision-driving data and a fast ROI. Dynamics GP offers major productivity benefits including its ability to extend the reach of your company, manage your accounting, automate financial processes, standardize procedures across your company, refine inventory control, enhance order accuracy, grow revenue and minimize lead-time, and maximize free cash flow. Progent can help you configure and maintain a robust, safe server and communications infrastructure to support Great Plains, and can provide experienced Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains consultants to help you reap all the benefits of your Dynamics GP/Great Plains business management system.
iPad Network Consultant
OS X Architecture Online Technical Support
Progent's Mac networking consultants can assist you with a broad array of network infrastructure areas such as network architecture, remote and mobile connectivity, internetwork compatibility, protection, and emerging technologies including VoIP and high-speed wireless networking. For business networks based exclusively on Apple Mac OS X or for environments that use a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows powered servers and workstations, Progent has the knowledge and depth to handle the complexity of planning, integrating, and maintaining a network architecture that is reliable, safe, productive and aligned with your business goals. Progent can show you how to configure Apple’s Xserve enterprise servers, Xserve RAID zero-downtime storage products, and Apple's Xsan SAN systems. Progent can also provide skilled experts to help you with Cisco routers and switches.
CCIE Certified Jabber and Cisco Unified CM Consultant
Jabber and Webex Technical Consultant
Progent's Jabber consultants offer online or on-premises support to assist businesses of any size to design, deploy, manage, update or troubleshoot Cisco Jabber solutions and Cisco Unified CM ecosystems. Progent can provide advanced expertise for all the technologies that make up creating an end-to-end Cisco Jabber solution such as Cisco network devices and management software, Microsoft Office 365 applications, Windows and Mac desktops, Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets, SIP trunking, Wi-Fi systems, security and compliance, cloud computing, telepresence systems, PBX systems, business continuity, and other components of a cohesive collaboration solution.
After Hours Cisco Video Conferencing Consultants
Radvision Telepresence Technology Professional
Progent can provide the support of an accredited consultant with an extensive background integrating technology from the major telepresence providers such as Cisco/Tandberg, Polycom, and LifeSize and can assist your company to plan, install, expand, or maintain a video conferencing environment that preserves your investment and optimizes the strategic value of your information system. Progent also offers the expertise of infrastructure consultants able to assist businesses of any size to create and maintain a network that provides the performance, reliability, security, and expandability you need to accommodate your video conferencing/telepresence solution.
Wi-Fi IP phone integration On-site Support
wireless IP phone integration Consulting
Cisco's wireless VoIP phones are industrial-grade wireless devices designed for workers who are on the move within office, warehouse, retail or other venues where management requires user endpoints that provide more control, security and ruggedness than is achievable with the BYOD mode of workplace communications. Creating solutions with Cisco's wireless IP phones usually requires that IT teams set up and optimize many key pieces of your wireless environment such as APs, switches, Cisco wireless LAN controllers, and management tools. Progent's certified consultants offer online and onsite support to help you create and maintain a Cisco wireless IP phone deployment by delivering integration services that can range from debugging the set up of a wireless IP phone or access point to offering project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services for updating the Wi-Fi infrastructure of a campus.
At Home Workers Conferencing Computer Engineer
Telecommuter Video Conferencing Computer Consulting
Progent can help small and mid-size companies to deploy and troubleshoot conferencing solutions to enable their at-home workers to collaborate effectively with fellow workers and clients.
Windows Active Directory Professionals
Microsoft Active Directory Consulting Services
Windows Enterprise Directory requires significant field experience to integrate efficiently across an enterprise. Progent’s Microsoft Certified consultants are experts in planning, integrating, and supporting sophisticated Microsoft Enterprise Active Directory installations. Progent’s fields of expertise with Microsoft Windows Active Directory include replication problems, multi-domain partition configurations, repair of corrupted AD objects, cleaning up legacy legacy version configuration objects in production Active Directory environments, and repair of unsuccessful configurations of Active Directory and AD-associated applications.
Configuration Remote Employees Helpdesk
Offsite Employees Helpdesk Help and Support
Progent can provide small and medium-size businesses supplemental or fully outsourced Help Desk call center support services for an offsite workforce.
WatchGuard Firebox T-Series Firewall Protecting
WatchGuard Firebox M4600 Firewall Security Organization
Progent offers consulting expertise for WatchGuard Firewall security appliances such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM series of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can show you how to select, deploy, and manage a WatchGuard Firewall product that aligns with your network security requirements and budget. Progent can help you to manage outdated WatchGuard firewalls or migrate efficiently to current WatchGuard firewall solutions.
Cisco VoIP Phones and Unified Messaging Consultant Services
Top Cisco VoIP Phones and CUBE Integration Services
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure consultants can provide high-level support services for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (formerly CallManager). Progent can assist you to integrate VoIP phones, create dial plans, configure SIP trunking and PSTN connections, deploy Cisco ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server failover solutions.
CCIE Certified Wave 2 Wi-Fi controller Consulting Services
8540 wireless controller Integration
Progent's Wi-Fi consultants can assist you to deploy Cisco Wi-Fi controller appliances to manage wireless networks of any size. Progent can help you to maintain and debug your existing Cisco-based Wi-Fi environment or implement an efficient transition to Cisco's latest wireless controller solutions.
Award Winning Anti-Virus Technology
Support and Setup Postini
E-Mail Guard is Progent's economical spam filtering and virus protection managed service that offers small businesses enterprise-quality protection from spam, viruses, directory harvesting, and other forms of e-mail-based assaults on computer networks. E-Mail Guard is based on Postini's Perimeter Manager, a comprehensive suite of web-based spam filtering and virus protection services that defuse email assaults before they are able to penetrate the company firewall. Perimeter Manager also lets administrators monitor and control their email application, irrespective of server vendor, hardware technology, or data center location.
Hybrid cloud solutions Specialists
Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud solutions Consulting
Progent can provide advanced online support services to help organizations connect their networks with popular public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. Progent can help your it team to design and manage hybrid environments that support Windows and Linux systems and apps in either cloud-centric systems or in hybrid network models that combine physical resources along with public cloud services. To assist you to integrate cloud services with networks, Progent offers a range of cloud integration services that include Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and deployment services, Amazon AWS cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service programming and debugging. Progent has more than 15 years of experience delivering advanced consulting support online, and Progent can help you successfully carry out your cloud integration initiatives on schedule and affordably.
Microsoft Server Consolidation Setup and Support
Microsoft Server Consolidation Online Technical Support
Microsoft Virtual Server, hosted on the Windows Server 2003 platform and based on technology originally produced by Connectix, delivers the power necessary to carry out hardware reduction, application migration, and server quarantine tasks via virtualization technology in an enterprise-class IT environment with advanced scalability, manageability, and reliability. Microsoft has targeted Virtual Server at companies who want to improve ROI in software programming and piloting, migration from outdated mission-critical software, and hardware consolidation. Progent's certified Virtual Server experts can assist your IT staff to evaluate and integrate MS Virtual Server 2005.
Network Consultant SharePoint
Office SharePoint Server 2010 Support and Integration
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants can provide companies of all sizes consulting, technical support, and application development expertise for Microsoft SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an enterprise platform that uses web technology for intelligently connecting people, teams and data. Microsoft SharePoint Server offers a common location for your employees or customers to access, manage, distribute and interact with relevant data, documents, and software and to interact with one another. Microsoft SharePoint allows quicker and better decisions, more effective sharing across teams and more economical business processes. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, customers, teams and projects with the information they’ve developed in a manner that makes data easy to find, download and apply. Progent's certified SharePoint experts can assist your organization to manage your existing SharePoint environment or migrate to the latest release of SharePoint Server or to SharePoint Online.
Microsoft LCS Server Instant Messaging Technology Consulting Services
Live Communications Server On-site Technical Support
Microsoft Office Communications Server provides IM and Real Presence in a scalable, world-class solution offering advanced protection, seamless integration with popular Microsoft software, an extendable, standards-based development environment, and compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and GLB. Your organization can realize cost savings and improved operational efficiencies, increased worker productivity, and stronger IP security with this easy-to-manage, highly available IM platform. Successful implementations of Microsoft Office Communications Server call for extensive 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 throughout your whole organization.
24 Hour Professionals Mac Office
After Hours Microsoft Office for Mac IT Consultants
Microsoft Office for Mac allows Mac users to receive the benefits of the industry's most popular office productivity applications. Progent's Apple-certified Mac experts can help you set up Mac Office on a multi-vendor network that incorporates Apple OS X and Windows platforms so that Mac users can access the latest capabilities of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage in order to share information and network resources with co-workers who use Windows. Progent's engineers have expertise with both Apple Macintosh and Windows platforms and can support networks that combine Mac with Microsoft Windows systems with extensive resource sharing, or environments which intentionally restrict sharing between Mac and Windows systems.
Support and Help Disaster Recovery
24x7x365 Network Load Balance Configuration
Progent’s Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) consultants have in-depth experience helping small organizations to minimize system downtime by offering cost-effective online consulting support for disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, high-availability network infrastructure, data backup and restore solutions, and non-disruptive system maintenance. Progent’s business continuity consultants can assist you to develop and validate an efficient business continuity strategy that matches your business needs and budget. Progent’s disaster recovery specialists can assist you to design, implement, and manage resilient technologies including non-stop Internet connectivity, virtualized servers, clustering, load balancing, continual off-site backup, and geographically dispersed data centers.
Polycom ATX Telepresence Services
SCOPIA Video Conferencing Specialists
Progent can provide the expertise of a veteran specialist with years of hands-on experience installing, managing, and upgrading video conferencing systems from top-tier suppliers such as Cisco/TANDBERG, Polycom, LifeSize, and Radvision. Progent can work with your internal network support team, your ISP, and your telepresence technology supplier to help your organization increase the business value of your video conferencing solution.
Threat Management Gateway 2010 Online Troubleshooting
Threat Management Gateway 2010 On-site Technical Support
Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 is based on the proven security capabilities of Microsoft ISA Server and offers a centrally administered web gateway that acts as a one-server platform for an array of security functions including an multi-layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, malware inspection, IPS, application proxy, VPN management, plus HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Forefront Threat Management Gateway provides comprehensive web security logging and reporting features, permits custom reports generated by Microsoft SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to streamline authentication and policy enforcement, and can be operated as a virtual server to cut expenses and improve recoverability. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to plan and execute test and production deployments; integrate Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 with Windows Server 2008, Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010; set up Forefront TMG 2010 to operate on a virtual server with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V; and provide continuing consulting and repair services. Progent can also assist your organization to migrate smoothly to Forefront TMG 2010 from ISA Server.
Proxim Tsunami Wireless Example Application
Proxim Wireless Example Application
Progent delivered a wireless integration solution that allowed a school to increase productivity and avoid the ongoing expense of a dedicated link. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami wireless 60Mbps bridge. The economical building-to-building Proxim bridge is designed for interfacing separate locations as far as 2.5 miles apart and can reach even greater distances. This wireless alternative offered better performance and reliability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b wireless network, and because it utilizes the 5.8Ghz spectrum it provided protection against outside interference.
Wireless Security Scan Specialist
Internal Security Scan Professional
Progent offers small organizations a pair of low-cost network security evaluation packages that provide, for a set price, remotely managed scans of your security profile which are evaluated by professional security engineers who assess the results of the scan, present unbiased summaries of your current network security, and make recommendations for remediation. Progent offers two non-overlapping security inventory packages for external and internal security scanning that are priced to fit the budgets of small companies while offering enterprise-class evaluations of your network's exposure to attack.
Remote Technical Support DoubleTake Carbonite Software Backup
DoubleTake Carbonite Availability Specialists
DoubleTake/Carbonite Software publishes a selection of products intended to deliver small businesses a variety of affordable solutions for backing up and recovering business-critical applications including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL, RIM Blackberry, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Progent’s disaster recovery planning consultants have in-depth backgrounds incorporating DoubleTake/Carbonite technology into small business IT systems to create a high state of availability and business continuity readiness at an affordable cost.
Data Center Colocation Technical Consultant
Remote Technical Support Colocation Selection
Colocation data centers make it possible for businesses to share world-class data centers for housing computer equipment that supports critical applications. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified IT experts can help your business with all facets of your colocation strategy including selecting and moving to a colocation facility, creating network topology, defining required equipment, on-premises and remote maintenance, setting up offsite network management, and training your IT personnel.
Expert Microsoft Certified Windows 7 Migration Server Consultants
Professionals Windows 7 Training
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can help your company to test
Services GIAC Security and Compliance Test
Consulting GIAC Security Audit
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance specialists offer support for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation such as evaluating infrastructure security mechanisms, event handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.
CRISC Certified Risk and Information Systems Control Systems Engineer Consultant
Award Winning Engineer CRISC Certified Risk and Information Systems Control Auditor
Progent can provide the guidance of a CRISC-certified risk management expert to help you to plan and deploy an enterprise risk management solution based on best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines.
Wireless LAN Site Survey Integration Services
24-Hour 802.11x Wi-Fi Site Survey Engineer
Progent’s Wireless Site Survey assists you to design and install a WiFi LAN customized for your facilities, providing you a wireless solution that delivers the coverage, speed, load-handling capability, Quality of Service, security, and roaming ability your business requires. Progent's Wireless Site Survey services are offered either as an economical remote service or as a more detailed on-premises service.
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