Expanding your telecommuter workforce can have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to design, configure, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Barueri-Alphaville company to pick the appropriate tools and follow leading practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide support services that go from on demand guidance for getting you past occasional technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist Barueri-Alphaville, São Paulo companies to with any aspect of creating a high-performing telecommuting environment by providing infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, helpdesk augmentation, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure required for a remote work environment can be especially challenging if you have to accommodate a mix of personal equipment such as PCs and laptops, routers, and wireless appliances from various vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's background delivering online support for both legacy as well as current IT products in remote office venues enables you to make efficient use of your available infrastructure and offers fast access to expertise for making necessary upgrades. Services offered by Progent to help your company to implement a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem include:

  • Virtual Private Network connectivity makes it possible to establish a secure tunnel for authenticated remote employees to use IT resources located at your company datacenter or in the cloud. Progent can help your company to configure and maintain VPN access between your teleworkers and your various IT resources by providing online VPN integration consulting. For businesses using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA consultants can help your remote workers to utilize Cisco's AnyConnect client software for safe VPN tunneling for a wide range of devices including Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platforms allow a teleworker to view and interact with a data center PC's desktop. This gives IT managers substantial control over the computing ecosystem of telecommuters and offers remote users a consistent and more productive experience. Progent's virtual desktop consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI expertise.
  • Routers connect at-home networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, home Wi-Fi networks, and firewall services. Progent can provide top-tier remote consulting for configuring home routers from a range of manufacturers. See router integration services from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wireless networks, often supporting families and visitors, are frequently utilized by at-home employees to access their Internet router for work. This can create throughput and cybersecurity issues. Progent can help businesses to mitigate these issues by providing expertise that include Cisco Aironet configuration consulting, Cisco Meraki wireless installation consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi AP integration help.
  • Internet connectivity solutions affect the performance and availability of connections between at-home workers and the company data center. Business-critical applications may demand redundant Internet connections in case the primary connection breaks. Progent offers expertise for selecting ISPs, picking sensible bandwidth and data volume bundles, and configuring fault-tolerant Internet access. Refer to Internet connectivity integration services.

VoIP Solutions for an At-Home Workforce
Expanding the corporate PBX environment to include remote users is vital to supporting a productive at-home workforce. A variety of cloud-centric digital PBX products are used by SMBs to server remote users. Many larger organizations depend on Cisco's modern or older platforms for IP voice solutions. Progent can help organizations of all sizes to design or tune a remote VoIP environment that delivers the versatility, convenience and protection required for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants offer advanced support to assist organizations optimize their existing Cisco IP voice environments to support an expanding remote workforce.

  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) extends enterprise IP telephony features to devices such as VoIP phones, media processing platforms, Voice over IP gateways, and mixed media software deployed across the network. CUCM manages other combined media services such as messaging, video conferencing, and team collaboration networks. For more information about Progent's Cisco Unified CM or CUCM support, see Cisco Unified Communications Manager consulting services.
  • Cisco CallManager is Cisco's earlier call-processing software and has been replaced by Cisco Unified CM. Progent's consultants can assist you to maintain your existing CallManager deployment or migrate smoothly to Cisco's current IP telephony products. For details about Progent's support services for CallManager and Cisco's other legacy IP voice products, refer to CallManager expertise.
  • Cisco IP Gateways provide connectivity with PSTN networks and with clients operating beyond the corporate firewall like telecommuters. Progent offers consulting expertise for Cisco's earlier generation IP gateways such as the UC520, UC540 and UC560 product lines and for current Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateways. See Cisco SIP gateway configuration expertise.
  • Other VoIP Platforms supported by Progent include Vonage, RingCentral and 8x8. Progent can assist you to expand your WAN infrastructure to work with these VoIP solutions and deliver online deployment and troubleshooting services.

Voice/Video Conferencing for Telecommuters
A broad range of voice/video conferencing products from leading vendors enable online discussions, video conferencing, chat sessions, and screen/content sharing for both onsite workers and telecommuters. Many companies use multiple products to accommodate their various partners and customers. Progent's communications experts can assist you to maintain your existing voice/video conferencing ecosystem and optimize the productivity of your remote employees.

  • Skype for Business is Microsoft's leading communications product that enables presence, instant messaging, voice and video conferencing as well as the seamless integration of these capabilities within Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook. Progent can provide the expertise of Microsoft-certified specialists who can assist you to deploy and maintain Skype for Business clients to support your at-home employees. To learn more about Progent's support services for Skype for Business, refer to Skype for Business integration experts.
  • FaceTime is Apple's multiuser video phone platform for compatible iOS and Mac devices. FaceTime works over Wi-Fi or cellular Internet connections. Current versions of FaceTime allow up to 32 simultaneous users for video calls. To learn more about Progent's support expertise for Apple FaceTime, visit Progent's FaceTime configuration expertise.
  • Webex Meeting Center provides remote conferencing for virtually all computing devices. Delivered via Cisco's Webex Cloud, Webex capabilities include sharing granular content or computer screens, presentations that embed rich media including Microsoft PowerPoint and Flash videos, session capture, plus editing and playback for future reference and training. For details about Progent's support expertise for Webex as well as for other IP video products from Cisco, visit Progent's Webex Meeting Center support services.
  • Teams is Microsoft's next-generation replacement for Skype for Business. Teams provides a hub for conversations, contacts, and information with capabilities such as video conferencing, persistent threaded chat, plus data sharing. For details about Progent's support expertise for Microsoft Teams as well as for other Microsoft 365 apps, visit Progent's Microsoft Teams consulting services.
  • Other Conferencing Apps supported by Progent's conferencing experts include Google Meet, Amazon Chime, Zoom, and Slack. Progent can provide configuration and debugging expertise for these conferencing platforms and help your business to tune your WAN architecture to run them.

Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Software for At-Home Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are closely integrated with Microsoft's popular Office and Microsoft 365 families, offering a powerful ecosystem of productivity apps that create a cohesive user experience for exchanging data and ideas throughout multiple sites and on a broad range of endpoint devices. Progent has delivered online consulting support for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server since their initial publication and can help businesses to deploy these flagship collaboration products to maximize the effectiveness of your at-home workforce.

Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office suite, providing a rich ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide variety of endpoint devices. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial releases and can help at-home workers set up and use these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize productivity.

Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium Integration Experts for At-Home WorkersMicrosoft Teams works on top of Microsoft 365 and integrates with third-party cloud services to deliver real-time collaboration. Developed as a substitute for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can enable chat, video meetings that include screen sharing, calling, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and app sharing. Teams is closely integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (previously called Azure Active Directory) for delivering its complete range of capabilities. To learn more about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams, visit planning and deployment consulting for Microsoft Teams.

SharePoint Server Deployment Consultants for At-Home WorkersSharePoint uses web entities to enable collaboration and information sharing by offering policy-based delivery of content, workflow, and utilities for looking through company-wide business data. SharePoint allows you to build secure web portals that permits at-home workforce to view and edit consolidated business intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social networking sites, and Web Parts. For details about Progent's SharePoint consulting services, visit SharePoint integration and application development expertise.

Exchange Integration Consultants for Remote WorkersExchange and Exchange Online offer secure collaboration features including public folders, shared mailboxes, and shared calendars and contacts. Progent's Microsoft certified Exchange experts can show you how to activate and utilize these features for your at-home workers. To find out about Progent's Exchange expertise, visit deployment expertise for Exchange Server.

Microsoft Onedrive Integration Experts for Remote WorkersOneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud-based storage service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can store files to the OneDrive service, and co-workers can share them safely via a web browser. Provided with Microsoft 365, OneDrive enables home employees to co-author documents. Revisions made offline are uploaded when you go back online. For information about Progent's consulting services for OneDrive, refer to Onedrive configuration consulting.

Public Cloud Integration for Remote Workers
Progent offers advanced remote assistance for helping businesses to build, manage and repair cohesive hybrid network models that incorporate physical data centers, remote workers, branches, plus public cloud resources. Progent can provide expertise for all types of cloud service delivery such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help telecommuters fix issues with cloud connectivity, authentication, and cybersecurity.

Microsoft Azure Integration for Remote WorkersAzure is a leading family of cloud services that allows you to utilize infrastructure, servers, and key apps running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure features more than 100 services services such as the ability to host Windows and Linux-based virtual machines, scalable cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and data protection. Progent can assist you to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, configure storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity management with Azure Active Directory, and plan data backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent can also show you how to establish secure access to Azure services for remote workers by setting up and troubleshooting firewall appliances and VPN tunnels. For details about Progent's consulting services for Azure, go to Microsoft Azure consulting.

Microsoft 365 Integration Services for TeleworkersMicrosoft 365, formerly called Office 365, is Microsoft's growing family of client productivity applications and cloud services offered on a subscription basis. Office applications and services are provided in a variety of bundles designed for customers ranging from individuals and households to large corporations. Progent offers quick and affordable remote contact with consultants knowledgeable about Microsoft 365-compatible devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent's experts can help your business to assess the various subscription bundles offered with Microsoft 365 and configure 365 applications for your telecommuters in a way that delivers top business value. To find out about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft 365, see Microsoft 365 integration expertise.

Exchange Online Integration Services for At-Home WorkersMicrosoft 365 Exchange Online is among the most popular applications in the Microsoft 365 product suite. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online provides the advantages of lower costs for data center infrastructure, easier management, on-demand scaling, high availability, and additional advantages associated with cloud computing. Microsoft has designed Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to operate transparently with on-premises Exchange environments, allowing you to create hybrid networks. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can provide as-needed assistance to guide you through tough IT roadblocks and can also provide end-to-end project management services to ensure your telecommuters have easy and secure access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment. For details Progent's consulting expertise for Exchange Online, see Microsoft 365 Exchange Online configuration and support consulting.

Amazon AWS Integration Services for At-Home WorkersAmazon AWS is a trailblazer in the public cloud computing arena and is the world's leading source of cloud services. Progent offers fast and economical online access to cloud connectivity experts who can help your business to plan, implement, manage, and troubleshoot hybrid IT networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud services with local resources and with other popular cloud platforms like Azure. Progent also offers access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to assist you to build a high-uptime network architecture so your employees have a productive computing environment whether they are working from your headquarters, a remote branch, from home, or on the move. For information about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, visit Amazon AWS integration support.

Google Cloud Integration Services for TeleworkersGoogle Cloud Platform is a popular collection of cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can help your business to expand your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud, and Progent's database consultants can help you make your mission-critical apps cloud ready so your teleworkers can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent can assist your organization to set up virtual machines on GCP Compute Engine, design an efficient storage solution with Google Cloud Storage, and streamline access management for remote workers with GCP Cloud Identity. Progent's consultants can also help your business to utilize GCP's unified management tools to control and track your Google Cloud environment. To learn, refer to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consulting support.

Help Desk Call Center Support for Remote Workers
A sudden, organization-wide transition to a telecommuter business model, which might be driven by a pandemic or as a component of a business continuity preparedness plan, can overstretch even a well-staffed in-house Call Center. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services allow businesses to outsource or augment their Help Desk with Progent's remote Technical Response Center services.

  • Progent's Standard Help Desk support services utilize Progent's nationwide team of remote IT support specialists combined with world-class ticketing and tracking software to offer an economical, advanced Help Desk. Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer a comprehensive solution that handles all aspects of online Level 1 desktop technical support from initial help requests to ticket generation, desktop sharing, issue resolution, and incident reporting. A web-based User's Service Portal allows telecommuters to track or edit their current tickets, add details, and upload screenshots and attachments. Desktop support services are delivered at a substantial price reduction off Progent's normal Level 1 technical service charges, and Progent makes available the option of fast hand-off to Level 2 and Level 3 support specialists to resolve complex issues. For details, see Progent's Standard Helpdesk Services outsourcing for small and mid-size businesses.
  • Progent's Support Desk Supplemental Service enables your business to augment your current Call Desk team by sharing delivery of Help Desk Call Center services transparently between your in-house IT support personnel and Progent's extensive roster of PC support engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's shared Support Desk service is based on a collaborative support solution based on the number one professional services automation platform for handling service requests and trouble tickets, assigning ownership, monitoring progress, and generating reports. To find out how Progent's Help Desk Call Center Augmentation Services can enable your company to deliver world-class technical support to your teleworkers, see Progent's Call Desk augmentation Services.

Security for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home workers typically use their personal computers and often work in a poorly secured physical space. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires careful deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of IT security solutions experts can help you to design, deploy and manage an effective security solution that guards vital IT resources in environments that include remote workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to build a network that can be securely utilized by local users and by at-home workers, mobile workers, suppliers, clients, and the public. Modern firewall appliances permit you to assign and manage different access rights to various classes of users and to scale your IT network and modify your security as your business evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and legacy firewall appliances from all leading vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, see firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring for TelecommutersOnline Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers utilized by teleworkers and either block or identify and mitigate modern threats such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight software agent is put on each secured endpoint device, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect zero-day threats at inception. When an attack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately isolates the impacted endpoint from the network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight ASM software agent is self-contained, endpoints remain protected even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, visit remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo MFA Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to verify your identity on a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this second form of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several validation devices. For more information about Duo identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of external and internal security threats for a network that incorporates at-home workers. Progent can run online, automated cybersecurity analysis software for rapidly and economically uncovering a broad range of security holes that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be managed by security professionals with advanced credentials including CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist your business to audit your procedures and policies and assess your IT architecture to allow you to design the highest level of protection for your remote workers.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your at-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, rank, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
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Data Protection Solutions for Remote Workers
The field of Data Protection involves saving and recovering critical data so as to prevent data loss and reduce recovery time in case of storage problems resulting from hardware issues, programming glitches, human mistakes, cyber attack, or other causes. Dependable data protection solutions can be especially difficult to design and manage in hybrid environments that combine in-house data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.

  • Backup/Recovery strategies for at-home workers must cover diverse types of user-owned endpoints. Progent offers quick remote access to consultants knowledgeable about a wide range of platforms for backing up Windows, Apple and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops as well as laptops, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Leading backup/recovery products supported by Progent's backup/recovery experts include Barracuda Backup, Microsoft Azure Backup, DoubleTake Software, CrashPlan, Mozy, and Time Machine. To back up resources spread throughout a hybrid network, Progent offers ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a managed backup/recovery service that uses cloud storage and includes granular recovery and unified management capabilities.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plans typically anticipate circumstances that require a temporary changeover to telecommuting. Progent's senior disaster recovery planning consultants and business continuity planning specialists can assist your company to develop, document and validate a DR/BC plan that includes the process of moving to an at-home workforce.

Unified Management for At-Home Workers
Microsoft has rebranded and reshuffled its endpoint management products under the title Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud management of remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises computers. Endpoint Manager offers a centralized solution for protecting critical data by controlling on-premises, mobile, and at-home endpoints.

Microsoft Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also includes Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and securing remote devices and applications. Managed endpoint computers can be personally owned or business owned. IT administrators managing the enrolled endpoint computers of teleworkers can utilize Intune to deploy and authenticate applications on devices, push updates and certificates, set up policies for accessing data and networks, manage passwords, create VPN tunnels, control how home-based workers share information, establish threat defense, ensure compliance, and erase sensitive information from lost, stolen or deactivated devices. Intune can be used with Apple iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X computers. For details about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can assist you to use this platform to administer the endpoint devices of your at-home workforce, see Intune remote device management consultants.

VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich centralized Mobile Device Management product that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoints up to date and secure. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint administration along with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery platform for access control, app management, and configuration management of endpoint computers. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints powered by Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distros of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud-based service or as an on-site product via a perpetual license. Key capabilities of VMware Workspace ONE include rapid remote provisioning of out-of-the-box notebooks, quick onboarding of new employees, policy set up and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies reporting and performance analytics, email encryption, and tight integration with Microsoft applications and cloud-based products. For details about Progent's expertise for VMware Workspace ONE, refer to VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management consultants.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
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