Birmingham, Alabama Microsoft-Certified Consulting
MS SQL Server Consulting and Development
MS SQL Server technology provides your business IT network a database management platform that supports all classes of data, operates with a wealth of popular applications produced by Microsoft and other publishers, can be used to develop specialized programs quickly and affordably, offers a broad array of smart functions for utilizing your data, and gives you these benefits within an architecture designed for protection and privacy, speed, stability, expandability, and low-overhead administration. Progent's Microsoft-Premier engineers have many years of hands-on background in planning, integrating, customizing, and managing effective SQL Server-based systems that are closely integrated with Microsoft's .NET family of servers. Progent's SQL experts can make sure your SQL-powered database system is incorporated efficiently with your applications in order to maximize the business benefit of your information system.
Progent's SQL engineers offer remote and on-site support to help your Birmingham, Alabama company to plan and carry out moves from legacy database management products to the current version of Microsoft SQL Server. In addition, Progent can provide continuous network monitoring to ensure your business network is working efficiently, and Progent's remote Help Desk Call Center is available to offer rapid resolutions for SQL issues. Progent's Power BI integration experts can help you use data from SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to create visualizations to incorporate into actionable Power BI analytical reports and dashboards.
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement and administer Microsoft SQL Server environments that include physical and cloud resources. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)
Alabma State Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Alabama.
| City | Address | Phone | Link |
| Birmingham | Eagle Point Business Center, 4000 Eagle Point Corporate Drive Birmingham, AL 35242 |
(205) 882-5100 | Birmingham Network Support Services |
| Mobile | 202 Government St Mobile, AL 36602 |
(251) 303-8282 | Mobile Network Support Services |
| Montgomery | 8436 Crossland Loop, Suite 204 Montgomery, AL 36117 |
(334) 557-8818 | Montgomery Network Support Services |
MS SQL 2019 Server Planning and Integration Expertise
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2019 consultants can assist your organization to evaluate the business case for migrating to SQL Server 2019 and can deliver rapid online or on-premises contact with consulting experts in solution design and deployment, software development, database administration, and network security. To find out more, refer to SQL Server 2019 migration consulting.
Microsoft SQL 2017 Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2017 experts can help you to assess the business advantages of migrating to SQL Server 2017 and can help your organization to plan and carry out an efficient migration of your current SQL Server environment to any network model including onsite, cloud-hosted, or hybrid. Progent's SQL Server experts offer remote or on-premises support ranging from as-needed design assessment or debugging to end-to-end project management to ensure your SQL Server 2017 project is carried out on schedule and within budget. Read about Progent's SQL 2017 Server migration and support.
MS SQL Server 2016 Consulting and Support
SQL Server 2016 introduces major enhancements in speed, capacity, security and compliance, uptime, mobile computing support, and integrated business intelligence. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can deliver remote and on-premises support to help organizations of any size to deploy, administer or debug any edition of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also assist you to integrate SQL Server 2016 with all key Microsoft platforms including Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP, Skype for Business, and System Center Operations Manager. Learn about Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2016 expertise.
Microsoft SQL 2014 Server Consulting
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 incorporates major improvements in critical areas including performance, availability, compliance, and cloud integration. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the first release of SQL Server that includes in-memory capability that operates transparently with all workloads including OLTP, enterprise data warehousing, and data analytics. Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2014 consultants can provide efficient remote and on-premises services such as system design, deployment, administration, troubleshooting, and application development expertise to help businesses of any size to achieve fast return from their SQL Server 2014 deployment. Learn about Progent's SQL Server 2014 support.
SQL 2012 Server Support
SQL Server 2012 includes a broad array of capabilities that deliver major enhancements in key areas including high-availability, data protection, throughput, ease of management, business analytics, cloud support, scalability, information sharing, accessibility, and streamlined application development. Progent can provide the support of Microsoft-certified consultants and experienced software programmers, database administrators, project management experts, network infrastructure architects, disaster recovery planning specialists, and data security consultants to assist your business to evaluate the potential benefits of SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up pilot systems at your datacenter or at Progent's lab, design and execute out a smooth migration to SQL Server 2012 from previous versions of SQL Server or from legacy RDBMS platforms, and define an efficient and secure IT infrastructure that helps you realize the full strategic benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Learn about Progent's SQL 2012 Server expertise.
Microsoft SQL 2008 Consulting
MS SQL Server 2008 delivers important improvements over previous releases of Microsoft's flagship DBM platform. New features introduced by MS SQL 2008 impact vital facets of information management such as information privacy, dependability, scalability, simplicity of administration, and intelligent functions for converting all types of data to useful business information. Improvements include transparent encryption for guarding privacy and attaining compliance, Policy-Based Framework for lowering administration costs, new synchronization services to accommodate occasionally connected users, seamless integration with Office Word and Excel and SharePoint Server 2007 for working with report data, and Resource Governor to provide predictable responsiveness to users. (Note: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has arrived at End-of-Support. Progent can provide SQL Server 2008 migration consulting services to help your business to move smoothly to an up-to-date release of SQL Server.) Read about Progent's SQL 2008 consulting services.
MS SQL Server 2005 Consulting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 enhances your information environment by providing a secure and robust company information control and evaluation platform. MS SQL 2005 Server maximizes the strategic value of your IT network by offering a proven data management solution for non-stop operations of enterprise-class, multiterabyte databases, enabling you to make better decisions derived from up-to-date business measurements through advanced analytics, reporting tools, and data-mining capabilities, and providing an improved development environment that enables programmers to create secure mission-critical applications quickly, and easily add new functionality for users. Read about Progent's SQL 2005 Server consulting.
Microsoft SQL 2000 Server Consulting Services
SQL Server 2000 is a complete, Web-aware DBM and information analysis product that opens the door to the rapid development of a new generation of enterprise-grade line-of-business applications that can provide your company a critical competitive advantage. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 offers built-in compatibility with XML and the capability to operate across the Internet and outside your corporate firewall. Progent's Microsoft-premier SQL professionals can help your company to migrate your business applications and data from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 up to the current version of Microsoft SQL Server technology. Read more details about Progent's SQL Server 2000 consulting services.
Progent's Software Programming Support for Microsoft SQL Server
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server application programmers and DBAs can provide remote consulting to help organizations of all sizes to create, manage, and troubleshoot applications based on SQL Server. Progent's SQL Server consultants can provide support for any phase of the application life cycle in environments that range from small office databases to N-tier VLDB applications. Services available from Progent's SQL Server application developers and database administrators include:
- Requirements analysis
- Database physical modeling
- ETL development
- T-SQL software development
- Software installation
- Data migration
- Capacity planning
- Performance tuning
- Backup and Restore technology
- Partitioning strategies
- Reusable schema
- Replication solutions
- Security
- Business continuity planning
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Progent's Professional Support Services for Microsoft-powered Technology
For companies of any size in Birmingham Alabama, Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can provide low-cost online network help and IT consulting support for the whole array of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers. Progent can deliver Windows Server 2019 upgrade consulting, Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud solutions, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 design and configuration support, Windows Server 2008 expertise, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 technical support. Progent's migration, integration, update, and support services include network design, configuration, and management outsourcing for
project management and documentation, on-site and off-site
technical support and system troubleshooting,
Help Desk Outsourcing Services, certified
security expertise, full-service
outsourcing, and
ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
Progent's System Center 2016 consultants include System Center 2016 Operations Manager experts, Microsoft System Center 2016 Configuration Manager consultants and Microsoft System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2016) hybrid cloud management consultants who can assist your organization to plan and deploy Microsoft's platform for unified management of hybrid cloud networks that combine on-premises resources and cloud services.
Progent in addition offers a full range of online PC desktop support services such as Windows 10 planning consulting, Windows 8.1 consulting, Microsoft Windows 7 technical support, moving to 64-bit computing, preparing for to 64-bit computing, configuring Office 365, and streamlining desktop configuration.
In case your Birmingham Alabama company needs urgent online support from a Microsoft certified consultant, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support.
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Deploying Phase: Implementation Network Manager
24 Hour Envisioning Phase: Requirements Definition Consultant
When conducting IT tasks for corporate customers, Progent uses a phased methodology driven by defined milestones in order to achieve budgetary, scheduling and engineering targets while minimizing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Project Methodology follows accepted project management standards based on the best practices defined by the Microsoft MSF methodology which specifies requirements definition, architecture proposals, pilots, design adjustments, and professional implementation. All phases are recorded to provide a detailed description of technical services delivered and to assist in ongoing network maintenance.
24/7/365 Remote Branch Office Software Security Consultant
Hosting Facility Support Services
For enterprises with branches in or any area covered by Progent's consultants, Progent's Microsoft-Certified IT consulting professionals and authorized Cisco system specialists offer a variety of IT support services including project management, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, site moves, corporate security, network design, local or phone-based branch office support, and troubleshooting for collocation hosting facilities. A Progent network architect can show you how to design a multi-site information system that makes smart use of collocation services and Internet hosting sites. Progent’s Microsoft Premier engineers can help large corporations plan, integrate and support major rollouts of the latest releases of Microsoft technology such as Enterprise Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Enterprise editions of Windows. Progent’s Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional consultants can help you configure Cisco products for connection solutions that incorporate basic, high-performance, integrated, and remote networking.
Herakles/QTS Test Lab Consultants
Top Quality Network Testing Lab Professional
The Progent Test and Training Lab at the QTS Data Center can be used for testing line-of-business applications, creating cost-effective system upgrade methodologies, evaluating and optimizing performance, planning or verifying business continuity solutions, mitigating compatibility problems, and building training systems for the latest products and technologies. For Progent clients who lack adequate internal resources to configure proper pilot environments, the lab reduces capital outlay and technical risk and helps keep critical network initiatives on schedule.
ISA Server 2006 Setup and Support
ISA 2006 Firewall Specialists
Microsoft ISA 2006 is a comprehensive gateway that offers a fully integrated application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), and web caching platform for securing the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a wide variety of attacks. Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 consultants can show you how to design, rationalize, pilot, install, customize and support the any version of ISA Server 2006 on your information system.
Offsite Employees Video Conferencing Support and Integration
Work from Home Conferencing Support and Integration
Progent can help small and mid-size companies to deploy and debug video conferencing technology to enable their at-home workforce to interact effectively with colleagues and clients.
Urgent Remote Workers Helpdesk Support Outsourcing
24-7 Remote Workers Helpdesk Services Online Support
Progent can provide small and medium-size companies supplemental or fully outsourced Help Desk call center support for an offsite workforce.
24x7 Microsoft Dynamics GP IT Consultants
Consultants Dynamics GP/Great Plains
Progent can help you prepare and execute a smooth move to Dynamics GP so that you retain your data, strengthen your protection, enhance your analytics, take full advantage of Microsoft Office integration, and reduce productivity disruption by creating and following a smart migration strategy. Progent can also help educate new Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010 users so you don't lose productivity. Progent can improve your financial reports and management analytics by providing Crystal Reports help, FRx programming, and Microsoft Excel support. Progent's experience with Microsoft .NET development, Microsoft SQL Server solutions, and programming with VBasic, XML and other platforms make it possible to create specialized line-of-business software and eCommerce programs that integrate transparently with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Cisco VoIP phones Troubleshooting
UC520 Network Consultants
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can help your business to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from discontinued Voice over IP devices to the newest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly known as CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can also help you to configure Cisco Unified CM applications such as Unified CM IM and Presence Jabber, Cisco Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) for building a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent can deliver support with any facet of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, setting up SIP gateways, installing ISR routers with CUBE internetworking capability, and designing Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco SRST systems for high availability.
IT Outsourcing Model Article
IT Outsourcing Example Article
Progent’s IT outsourcing services offer budget-friendly network consulting for mid-size companies. Whether it involves planning network infrastructure, setting up an in-house Help Desk or using an outside one, rolling out an updated e-mail system, monitoring your network, or building a web-based business solution, outsourcing your IT engineering services can smooth out costs and minimize uncertainties, allowing IT support expenses to increase in a more moderate and manageable manner than is possible by amassing a large, all-purpose in-house network support organization. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets explain how Progent can enable you to build a protected and highly available network foundation for your vital Windows-based business software including Windows 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Networking Support Desktop Update Automation
Microsoft Configuration Manager Networking Firm
Progent's network engineers can help you to streamline desktop PC change and update management by providing expertise with management solutions like System Center Configuration Manager, Systems Management Server, and WSUS.
Private Cloud Virtual Datacenter Hosting Specialist
Engineer ProSight Virtual Server Private Cloud Hosting
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting combines advanced virtual server architecture, a state-of-the-art data center, and the technical support services of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting group to provide small and midsize businesses with a complete information technology outsourcing alternative that enhances network dependability and protection, eliminates management distraction, and cuts costs. With Private Cloud Hosting, a smaller company can have all of its software platforms and key business application servers supported within a safe and fault tolerant facility on a high-performance, non-stop virtual server configured and supported by Progent's computer support professionals.
Remote CISSP Certified Security Systems Engineer Engineer
Consulting Services CISSP Certified security Systems Engineer
Progent's CISSP-certified network security consultants can assist organizations of any size with any facet of IT security. Progent can implement cost-effective security systems that guard a small business against advanced threats or Progent can plan, configure, and monitor a comprehensive security environment for hybrid enterprise networks that support local, online, and mobile users accessing IT resources spread over a mix of physical datacenters and various clouds.
802.11x Wireless Setup and Support
Flex 7500 2500 Wireless Controller Computer Engineer
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi technology consultants can help you to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Cisco wireless devices such as Aironet and Meraki 802.11ac wireless access points (APs) as well as Cisco's Wireless Network Controllers.
WatchGuard Firebox T-Series Firewall Consultants
WatchGuard Firebox M670 Firewall Testing
Progent provides consulting services for WatchGuard Firewall/VPN security appliances such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM families of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can help you choose, deploy, and maintain a WatchGuard Firewall appliance that aligns with your network security requirements and budget. Progent can help you to manage outdated WatchGuard firewalls or migrate efficiently to current WatchGuard firewalls.
ProSight Small Business Private Clouds Engineer
Consultancy ProSight Small Business Private Clouds
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting and Management service offers comprehensive hosting of a small or mid-size organization's production servers in an environment that delivers the maximum degree of availability and expandability and is also easy to move to any data center. ProSight Virtual Hosting options are built upon proven virtualization architectures that enable small and midsize businesses with multi- platform environments to save dramatically on the expense of capital equipment, infrastructure support, and network management while achieving world-class fault tolerance and an unprecedented level of vendor independence.
Consultants SQL 2008 Reporting Services
Online Troubleshooting Microsoft SQL 2008 Server
Progent's Microsoft-Premier SQL Server consultants offer an array of support services to assist small and midsize companies to plan, implement, manage, and troubleshoot MS SQL 2008 solutions in order to gain the maximum strategic advantage from Microsoft's state-of-the-art information management platform. In addition, Progent offers help with system architecture, enterprise-wide protection, and software development to increase the strategic advantage of your computer investment.
Windows 2000 Support and Help
Network Consultants Windows 2000 Server
Progent's certified Microsoft Windows 2000 consultants can help you optimize the functionality of your current Windows 2K Servers and can simplify network administration, offer tech support and troubleshooting, and enhance security. Progent can also show you how to design, rationalize, and implement a plan to migrate from Microsoft Windows Server 2K to Windows Server 2003. Progent is experienced in setting up pilot programs to eliminate the obstacles associated with migrating to Windows Server 2003 by uncovering possible hardware and application compatibility problems.
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Top Rated IT Consultant ProSight Endpoint Protection Services
Consultants ProSight Ransomware Protection
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including blocking, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks.
Cisco Specialist
Consulting Services Company Cisco
Progent offers fast remote support from Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts. Progent's CCIE consultants can connect to your network using advanced remote diagnostic utilities to deliver quick and economical analysis and remediation of critical network infrastructure problems.
24/7 Redhat Linux Integration Services
CentOS Linux Remote Technical Support
Progent's Linux support services offer small businesses and developers support for administering and supporting Linux computers that run with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your organization contact with Linux consultants, consulting professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISA and CISSP credentials. This broad array of expertise provides you with a convenient single source to help you build and maintain a secure and robust cross-platform connectivity and communications environment that allows Linux and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Microsoft Windows with leading Linux derivatives including RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Network Security Assessment Consult
Web Application Security Assessment Professional
Progent offers special network security packages intended to provide larger institutions a professional and thorough network security audit from a group of premier security engineers. All Progent's network security evaluation packages feature a collection of services including network scans from within and from beyond your network security perimeter, professional analysis of scanned data by accredited security engineers, creation of a report explaining the findings, plus an interactive concise executive outbrief and a detailed live outbrief for internal IT managers.
Exchange Migration Consulting
Exchange Server 2010 Upgrade Engineer
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting engineers can help you to assess the benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 for your business and can assist your IT staff to design and implement a smooth migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010 from Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that will provide fast ROI by increasing your workers' efficiency, cutting the cost of equipment and support, streamlining management, and consolidating your key communications technologies.
Network Device Configuration Management Specialists
Automatic Network Topology Mapping Remote Support
Progent’s ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to map out, monitor, optimize and troubleshoot their networking appliances such as routers, firewalls, and access points plus servers, printers, client computers and other networked devices. Using cutting-edge RMM technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that network diagrams are always updated, captures and manages the configuration information of almost all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends alerts when problems are detected. By automating time-consuming network management activities, WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks like network mapping, expanding your network, locating appliances that require important updates, or isolating performance problems.
iPhone and Outlook integration Engineer
iPhone and Power BI integration Online Support
Progent offers affordable remote consulting to assist you to plan, deploy, and troubleshoot any aspect of your iPhone and Windows integration efforts and is available for quick tasks to help you get past occasional technical bottlenecks or major engagements to help you complete business-critical projects on schedule and within budget. Progent has experience in local, cloud-centric, or hybrid networks and can help you create or maintain a resilient, secure and scalable infrastructure that aligns with your mode of computing. Progent also offers online or onsite training to show you how to manage and use your iOS devices in a secure, collaborative environment that optimizes the strategic value of your IT system.
Internet Security and Acceleration Server Support and Help
ISA 2004 Firewall Computer Consulting
Progent's certified ISA Server consulting experts have broad backgrounds developing corporate security solutions for information systems with multiple locations, mobile workers, and mission-critical eCommerce applications. A Progent ISA Server engineer is ready to help your small or mid-size company design and implement a configuration of ISA Server 2004 that supports your information security requirements without restricting your productivity.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Support and Setup
Windows Server 2008 BranchCache Consult
Windows Server 2008 R2 offers high levels of speed, security, fault tolerance, expandability, and versatility that improve output of local, branch office, and mobile users. Progent's network experts can provide cost-effective remote engineering, troubleshooting, and education services to help you to design, implement, and maintain Windows Server 2008 R2 to add significant business value to your information system.
Remote Workforce VoIP Remote Technical Support
Offsite Workers IP Voice Online Troubleshooting
Progent can help small and medium-size companies to implement VoIP solutions to give their teleworkers the advantage of transparent extensions of the company phone network.
Windows 2008 Cluster Server Technology Consulting
Microsoft Certified Partner Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster Remote Consulting
The cluster feature set incorporated into the Datacenter and Enterprise editions of MS Windows Server 2008 has been dramatically re-engineered to streamline the deployment, setup, and management of server clusters that offer improved levels of network dependability, security, performance, and versatility. New or improved features include automated cluster verification, easier setup and deployment, unified cluster administration, redesigned cluster infrastructure for increased availability, better protection and quorum models, elimination of failure points, more disk and memory capacity, and enhancements for geographically dispersed clusters. Progent's clustered server consultants can assist you evaluate the advantages of Windows clustering, design and implement an installation, train your IT personnel to manage your cluster environment, deliver continuing consulting and technical help services, and produce and validate a workplace recovery plan.
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