Expanding your remote workforce may have a significant effect on network architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT networks that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Boston organization to select the appropriate technologies and follow leading practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns top value. Progent offers support services ranging from as-needed expertise for getting you over challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out mission-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can assist Boston, Massachusetts organizations to with any aspect of creating a high-functioning work-from-home environment by delivering infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.
Microsoft Collaboration Software for Remote and Hybrid Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office and Microsoft 365 families, offering a rich ecosystem of productivity apps that deliver a cohesive user experience for exchanging information throughout multiple sites and on a broad range of endpoint computers. Progent has provided online consulting support for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange since their original releases and can help businesses to deploy these critical collaboration platforms to maximize the effectiveness of your remote 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 works on top of Microsoft 365 and integrates with third-party cloud services to deliver real-time collaboration. Designed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can support chat, audio/video meetings with screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, as well as file and app sharing. Teams is closely integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Entra (previously branded Azure Active Directory) for supporting its full range of features. For details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium, visit solution design and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams.
SharePoint utilizes web entities to facilitate collaboration and information sharing by offering policy-based access to data, business processes, and utilities for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint permits you to create secure portals that allows remote workforce to see and edit aggregated business intelligence via Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). For information about Progent's SharePoint support services, refer to SharePoint configuration and application development expertise.
Exchange 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 learn about Progent's Exchange consulting services, see planning and configuration consulting services for Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can store files to OneDrive, and co-workers anywhere can retrieve them safely via a browser. Provided with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows remote employees to jointly author documents. Revisions made offline are uploaded when you go back online. To find out about Progent's consulting services for OneDrive, visit Microsoft Onedrive configuration experts.
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