Expanding your remote workforce may have a significant impact on IT architecture, security/compliance, and company workflows. Progent has two decades of experience helping businesses of all sizes to design, configure, manage, tune, and debug IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can help your Brisbane company to select the right tools and adhere to best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual solution for telecommuters that promotes collaboration and delivers maximum value. Progent offers services that go from on demand guidance for helping you past occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.

Progent can assist Brisbane, Queensland organizations to with any facet of creating a high-performing remote work environment by delivering infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, data security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure required to support an at-home workforce can be particularly complicated if you must manage a combination of worker-owned hardware like desktop computers and laptops, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a mix of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's background providing online help for both legacy as well as modern technologies in virtual office solutions enables you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for making essential upgrades. Support services offered by Progent to assist you to create a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:

  • VPN technology allows you to create a safe tunnel for authenticated remote employees to use IT resources located at your company datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent can help you to deploy and manage VPN access between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing online VPN integration consulting. For businesses using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco ASA experts can help your telecommuters to set up Cisco's AnyConnect client software for safe VPN tunneling for a broad range of endpoint devices such as Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms enable a telecommuter to view and use a remote computer's desktop. This technology gives IT managers substantial control over the digital environment of telecommuters and offers them a consistent and more productive work experience. Progent's virtual desktop consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI solutions.
  • Routers connect at-home networks to the Internet and support VPN connections, local wireless connectivity, and firewall services. Progent offers expert online consulting for deploying routers from a range of vendors. See router integration services from Cisco-certified experts.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, often shared by the whole family and visitors, are frequently used by at-home employees to connect to their Internet router for work. This can cause throughput and security problems. Progent can assist businesses to mitigate these issues by delivering services that include Aironet integration expertise, Cisco Meraki WiFi installation consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless AP integration help.
  • Internet access solutions affect the speed and availability of connections between telecommuters and the corporate network. Mission-critical processes might require backup Internet access in case the normal connection fails. Progent offers guidance for identifying ISPs, picking appropriate service bundles, and setting up fault-tolerant Internet connections. Refer to Internet access integration services.

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about building and maintaining a productive work-from-home environment for your Brisbane, Queensland business, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.