Fast Online Troubleshooting for Buffalo New York Information Networks
For businesses located in Buffalo New York, Progent offers remote support for computer systems based on any mix of Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS, or Linux/UNIX technology. Progent's Microsoft Certified professionals have provided online troubleshooting to businesses in every state in the United States. (Check out recommendations from Progent's customers.) In addition, Progent can furnish the expertise of Cisco CCIE-qualified engineers to handle challenging infrastructure issues, as well as the assistance of CISA and CISSP-qualified cybersecurity consultants to handle high-level security architecture and troubleshooting issues.
Progent's online technical support experts offer excellent leverage due to the fact that they have the practical background and are equipped with the advanced tools required to solve most information system issues quickly. This lowers immediate expenses since service calls accumulate minimal chargeable minutes. Online support also avoids the cost of sending an engineer to your office. Your company saves even more in indirect expenses by minimizing or eliminating network downtime and related losses resulting from business discontinuity, disgruntled customers and vendors, idle employees, and de-focused executives. Progent's advanced online consulting know-how is particularly valuable in environments that are dependent on public clouds for vital network infrastructure or software like Azure, Exchange Online, Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or where onsite tech support may not be an option.
Progent's pricing policy for online help is structured to stretch your IT service dollar. Progent bills per minute for phone consulting, so you are billed only for the support that you receive. In contrast to typical online support organizations, Progent requires no initialization surcharge or minimum payments. Progent's per-minute granularity and clean policy for billing avoid scenarios where fast fixes manage to turn into substantial tabs. Progent's skill at disposing of problems efficiently means your business saves money.
Progent's Online Consulting and Technical Support Services
Through years of experience, Progent has refined an array of customized tools and field-proven methodologies which promote the highest degree of effectiveness for remote help and troubleshooting for computer networks of all sizes. Progent's online support team can access your company's network without violating network security.
Progent's powerful customer support database system keeps thorough records describing the service that Progent's customers have received. Progent's authorized consultants have the benefit of the records of assistance provided to every customer by every Progent consultant. This archive of trouble tickets and responses is structured as a conveniently exploitable proprietary database that allows Progent's remote technical professionals to communicate their experiences company-wide to make sure that the value of Progent's support services improves over time. Progent's high-level certifications and working associations with major vendors such as Cisco and Microsoft make available additional vast technical support knowledge bases and permit fast response from vendors' internal product engineers with the result that Progent's remote service specialists can arrive at the most efficient solutions promptly.
Remote services provided by Progent to companies in Buffalo New York include:
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Authorized Microsoft Windows Experts
Progent's Microsoft-expert remote support engineers offer computer troubleshooting and consulting help for all Microsoft server platforms. Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and can offer your organization the expertise of support professionals who can help your company with a broad variety of technology support such as Microsoft Windows Server 2022 planning and migration expertise,
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 migration,
Windows Server 2016 integration for hybrid systems, Windows Server 2012 R2 planning and deployment,
Windows Server 2008 migration,
MS Exchange 2019 Server planning and configuration,
MS Exchange Server 2016 planning and deployment, Microsoft Exchange 2013 integration,
Exchange Server 2010 monitoring and support,
SharePoint Server 2019 planning and integration, SharePoint Server 2016 migration and hybrid deployment support, Microsoft Teams configuration help, Skype for Business planning and deployment consulting, Microsoft Lync Server 2013 integration, and Microsoft Office Communications Server troubleshooting,
Forefront Threat Management Gateway administration and ISA Server 2006 maintenance, MS SQL Server 2019 migration consulting, MS SQL Server 2017 consulting, SQL Server 2016 migration and development and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 consulting,
Systems Center Operations Manager system monitoring,
Project Server and Project Server Online training,
Microsoft Access Application Development and Troubleshooting,
Small Business Server support, and
Windows 2012 R2 Essentials cloud integration.
Progent in addition offers a wide array of cost-effective PC desktop services to help your company to install, configure, repair, and administer desktop PCs and notebooks based on Microsoft Windows. Progent's PC desktop support services include offering Windows 11 planning and upgrade support and Windows 10 configuration support, plus System Center 2012 Configuration Manager design and deployment, System Center 2016 Configuration Manager hybrid cloud integration, and Intune integration help to streamline the management of your desktops along with your cloud-connected tablets and smartphones.
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Talk to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert for High-level Infrastructure Problem Solving
The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert credential is the highest accreditation for network professionals, and indicates an individual's networking knowledge at the master level. CCIEs can resolve the most stubborn problems surrounding network planning, installation, management, security, and problem solving. Cisco qualified CCIEs work on a privileged basis with Cisco's internal support staff in isolating anomalies with Cisco IOS network administration utilities and developing alternate approaches or identifying software patches. Cisco CCIEs are an excellent cost-effectiveness because their deep expertise allows them to fix problems rapidly. In many instances, less seasoned service providers can struggle for hours or even days with the same tasks that a Cisco CCIE can dispose of in minutes. Progent's Cisco-qualified CCIE support experts can communicate with your environment by means of advanced remote troubleshooting tools to provide quick, safe, and economical analysis and repair.
Upstate New York Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout upstate New York.
Progent locations in Upstate New York
Progent's Cisco CCIEs offer assistance with all of Cisco's market leading family of networking appliances by offering services such as:
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Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to carry out the urgent first step in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware engineer can assist you to identify and quarantine infected devices and protect undamaged assets from being compromised. If your Buffalo system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For more information, see Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.
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Ransomware Removal Services
Progent's ransomware recovery experts can assist your Buffalo business to rebuild a system victimized by a ransomware crypto-worm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, LockBit or Egregor. Progent's group of IT security experts have the wide selection of skills necessary to rebuild all critical facets of a compromised network quickly and with little data loss. To learn more, see Progent's ransomware removal and operational restoration expertise.
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CISSP, ISSAP, and CISM Premier System Security Specialists
Progent's certified CISSP and CISSP-ISSAP cybersecurity experts can provide a range of system protection solutions that can enhance the immunity of your Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and OS X, Linux, or UNIX environment against assaults or assist you to clean up quickly after a serious breach. Security support services available from Progent include: in depth network security and compliance analysis using utilities such as GFI LANguard NSS, AMAP Application Scanner, and products from Metasploit and Netcat; fast recovery from malicious attacks; setting up firewalls; designing safe architectures for off-site and mobile communication; guarding your messaging infrastructure from viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks; and instituting 24x7 network monitoring.
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Cloud Integration
Progent offers expert online consulting to help companies of all sizes connect their networks with popular public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Progent can help you to plan and administer hybrid environments that can include Windows and Linux operating systems and applications in both cloud-centric systems or in hybrid architectures that seamlessly combine on-premises resources as well as cloud services. To help you to incorporate public cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a range of cloud migration services such as Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-prem Exchange environments,
Azure hybrid cloud design and integration consulting, Amazon Web Services hybrid cloud migration, Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) development and debugging, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting. Progent has over 20 years of experience delivering advanced consulting services remotely, and Progent can help you complete your cloud integration initiatives on schedule and affordably.
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VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Planning and Deployment
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you orchestrate, automate and verify a consistent runbook for recovering applications and services rapidly following an outage. SRM provides centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site relocation, failback and re-protect. SRM also supports non-intrusive testing for disaster recovery, updates and fixes and can produce reports to confirm complete service restoration, validate Service Level Agreements and demonstrate DR compliance. Progent offers the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consultant to help you to plan, configure, test and manage a disaster recovery system powered by VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Progent's VMware vSphere consultants have extensive experience of VMware vCloud Director, vRealize Automation, vRO and vCloud tools for administering private and hybrid cloud environments that provide high availability, security, and application mobility. Progent can also provide world-class VMware NSX expertise from a VCDX-NV certified network architect to assist you to create a completely virtualized Software Defined Data Center that can be provisioned or re-purposed in minutes and managed with a high degree of automation regardless of the hardware making up the basic IP network.
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UNIX, Linux, Solaris, and Apple macOS and OS X Expertise
Progent's UNIX/Linux experts and Apple macOS and OS X technology specialists offer phone-based support services to address a broad spectrum of information technologies such as system architecture, email systems, network and process security, plus UNIX and Windows coexistence. For server consolidation and simplified administration in environments that combine Linux-based systems and Microsoft Windows, Progent offers VMware vSphere consulting and Citrix XenServer expertise. Progent can also help with migration from legacy systems to Windows or Linux-based solutions. Progent's team-oriented approach to solving technical problems promotes quick escalation, if necessary, to consultants with task-relevant expertise to tackle challenging situations. This expedites solutions of critical problems, reduces lost productivity, and cuts support costs.
Progent's UNIX/Linux support engineers can provide urgent remote assistance troubleshooting problems affecting UNIX, Linux, or Solaris systems based on popular versions of UNIX including:
Apple Mac OS X
Sun Solaris
IBM AIX OS
HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX)
BSD
SGI/Irix
ProSight Flat-rate IT Services for Small and Medium Size Businesses
Progent offers a family of affordable, fixed-price managed services designed to enable small and medium-size organizations to benefit from the same advanced technology used by some of the industry's leading enterprises. Progent's ProSight line of network management outsourcing services addresses all key aspects of information technology such as email content filtering, threat defense based on machine leaning, cloud-based backup/recovery, infrastructure health monitoring, virtual server cloud hosting, and IT asset documentation management. ProSight managed services include:
- ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Endpoint Security and Microsoft Exchange Email Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.
- ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based management outsourcing plans that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup processes and allow transparent backup and fast recovery of vital files, applications, system images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or application bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection Services family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these managed backup services are best suited for your network.
- Patch Management: Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information system. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.
- ProSight Duo Two-Factor Authentication: Identity Validation, Endpoint Remediation, and Secure Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. For details about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services.
- ProSight Reporting: Real-time Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Applications
ProSight Reporting is a growing family of in-depth management reporting tools designed to integrate with the industry's top ticketing and network monitoring programs including ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and utilizes color coding to surface and contextualize key issues like inconsistent support follow-up or machines with missing patches. By identifying ticketing or network health problems concisely and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances network value, reduces management hassle, and saves money. For details, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring applications.
- ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it simple and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to diagram, track, optimize and debug their connectivity hardware like switches, firewalls, and load balancers plus servers, client computers and other networked devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch ensures that network maps are always updated, captures and displays the configuration of almost all devices on your network, tracks performance, and sends notices when potential issues are discovered. By automating tedious management processes, WAN Watch can knock hours off ordinary chores such as making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding appliances that need critical software patches, or identifying the cause of performance issues. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure management consulting.
- ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring Services
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop remote monitoring managed service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to keep your IT system operating at peak levels by checking the state of vital computers that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alert is sent immediately to your designated IT management staff and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so any looming issues can be addressed before they can disrupt productivity Learn more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring consulting.
- ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and affordable alternative for small and medium-size businesses to obtain an unbiased assessment of the health of their network. Based on a selection of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in the industry, and overseen by Progent's world-class team of information technology experts, ProSight Network Audits show you how well the configuration of your core network assets adhere to leading practices. Both the Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide instant ROI like a more manageable Active Directory (AD) environment. Both also include one year of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management. Benefits can include simpler management, improved compliance with data security standards, more efficient utilization of IT assets, faster problem resolution, more dependable backup and recovery, and higher availability. Read more about ProSight Network Audits network infrastructure assessment.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service centered on a brief interview with a Progent backup/recovery expert. The fact-finding interview is intended to help evaluate your company's ability to stop or recover rapidly following an attack by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. Progent will consult with you directly to gather information concerning your current security profile and backup/recovery platform, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can apply best practices to create an efficient security and backup environment that aligns with your company's requirements. For more information, visit Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report.
Special Consulting Programs Offered by Progent
Progent offers the skills of world-class remote consulting professionals for special information technology projects. Progent's charges for ongoing consulting projects are set according to the level of expertise of the consultants assigned. Progent's background in these important areas of computer technology enables clients to complete critical projects within budget and on schedule. Progent's project-based online engineering services include:
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Help Desk Support
Progent's Help Desk Call Center support alternatives for companies with environments that incorporate Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, or UNIX/Linux products include comprehensive Help Desk Call Center services, co-managed Helpdesk support services, and Help Desk consulting.
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services provide small businesses a comprehensive solution that manages all aspects of online desktop technical support from initial requests through ticketing, screen sharing, progress tracking, problem solving, and reporting. Progent offers service desk support at a significant discount off Progent's regular Level 1 desktop support rates, and Progent offers the option of fast as-needed escalation to subject matter experts to resolve complex issues.
Progent's Help Desk Call Center consulting support can aid you in creating an efficient new Help Desk or revamping your existing one, evaluating or modifying Help Desk Call Center application software to handle the unique requirements of your corporation, or providing occasional phone support staff to supplement your internal Call Center team to handle unusually busy events like software transitions, major updates, or installing brand new applications.
Progent's Help Desk staff of experienced information technology experts provides your workers in Buffalo New York quick communication with a large support resource with extensive background providing telephone-based support and remote troubleshooting for IT systems powered by Windows, Cisco, Apple macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux technology. Progent's concentration is to earn the Help Desk Call Center perception as a significant enabler of business efficiency, and Progent's intent is to fix rather than simply annotate network problems.
- Applications Support: Education, Custom Development, and Problem Solving
Progent's Applications Experts Group can supply phone-based professional consulting expertise and education in special application areas that include ERP, MRP, accounting system customization, and CRM. Progent also can deliver consulting expertise, custom development, and training for popular Microsoft applications including Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Office Project, Office Word, and Office Excel. For additional information concerning Progent's consulting, custom development, and training offerings, visit Progent's Business Application Experts Team.
- Centralized and Streamlined Administration of Hybrid Cloud Environments
System Center unifies and automates the administration of hybrid cloud environments by offering advanced integration with Windows Server 2022, Windows 10 and Windows 11; seamless integration of heterogeneous networks that include various Linux distributions, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and better public and private cloud support including tighter integration with Microsoft Intune for iPhone and Android smartphone management plus native integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OSM) for cloud-based analytics and reporting. Progent's System Center consultants offer advanced remote and onsite support for all elements of System Center2including Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Progent can assist your business to plan and configure a new implementation of System Center2, expand or tune your current one, migrate smoothly from an earlier version of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center solution.
- Online IT Infrastructure Monitoring Support
Progent can deliver organizations in Buffalo New York remote hybrid network monitoring by providing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) consulting services. Progent can customize Operations Manager to accommodate your business so that your IT support is proactive and automated. By anticipating potential issues before they evolve into network outages, system monitoring can avoid disruptive and expensive information system failures. Progent can also deploy server and infrastructure monitoring utilities like Nagios and MRTG to diagnose UNIX/Linux, Solaris, or macOS and OS X environments, Microsoft Windows systems, or networks that support a mix of platforms.
How Your Buffalo Company Can Contact Progent's Online Technical Support Professionals
To get in touch with Progent about emergency remote expertise with Microsoft, Apple macOS and OS X, or Linux environments, visit Progent's Emergency Phone-Based Help, call 1-800-993-9400, or see Contact Progent.
For businesses and new ventures in Buffalo New York, Progent's online computer support specialists are ready to deliver expert and economical system help the moment your company needs it. More than 20 years of delivering remote repair services has earned Microsoft Partner status for Progent's consulting experts and has helped Progent to acquire world-class troubleshooting capability and to fine tune remote connectivity tools to fix computer problems rapidly while eliminating the cost and lost productivity associated with on-premises service calls.
Even if your Buffalo business relies on a regular freelance support technician or employs an in-house organization that can deal with day-to-day network issues, Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants can provide a convenient and seamless virtual expansion of your on-site resources in cases when your regular service personnel either don't have the bandwidth or the expertise to deal with unexpected system emergencies or especially challenging integration projects.
Benefits of Progent's Network Help for Offices in Buffalo New York
Progent's remote network troubleshooting services enable your Buffalo business to realize the advantages of on-call, expert network support without the cost of managing an in-house IT organization. Your network will derive added strategic value by being more reliable, efficient, and protected. Benefits to your business include:
- Seamless remote expansion of your local IT resources
With most companies in Buffalo New York, nearby computer service resources, whether represented by independent consultants or an in-house IT staff, can solve the majority of technical problems. On the other hand, serious problems may strike when your regular resources are too busy or unavailable, and some problems may involve IT products that is unfamiliar to your onsite support technicians. In these cases, Progent's online support experts give you an easy, quick, and budget-friendly solution to supplement your regular help and to pass on useful knowledge to increase your ability to handle future issues in-house.
- Reduced Dependence on Freelance Consultants
For network maintenance, smaller organizations often depend on individual freelance service providers. Although freelance service people have less overhead than big support organizations and can afford to charge lower rates, they are sometimes overextended, making it difficult to respond quickly to crisis situations. If an independent consultant is busy with another customer, ill, on vacation, or in training, the absence of backup personnel may require your company to go without help during an IT crisis. As your business expands, system downtime and problems with critical applications are more costly. The money you thought you were saving on an independent can be eaten up quickly by reduced productivity. Progent offers a ready source of reserve service expertise to insure your network remains available.
- Create a Scalable Basis for Smooth Expansion
Companies typically begin with an IT architecture created on a modest budget. Lacking a scalable infrastructure, slap-dash fixes can get thrown on top of an unstable foundation. When a company grows, reliability and expandability issues can impede the productivity of the organization. Such poorly built environments require careful analysis, intelligent long-term planning, and extensive IT expertise to evolve to a system architecture that can deliver the stable foundation to meet current business requirements and ease future expansion.
- Work with Solution Providers Rather Than Product Resellers
Smaller organizations need guidance and technical education to navigate through an increasingly complex maze of product alternatives available for accelerating business success and enhancing efficiency. These companies do not need a computer engineer who is trying to sell a specific vendor's technology. Network support and product sales can lead to a scenario where the recommended
solution is designed around a predetermined technology instead of the genuine requirements of a business. Progent avoids these conflicts of interest by selling just services rather than products. This allows Progent to align IT expertise with the real needs of clients.
What Makes Progent Unique from Other Support Organizations?
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner support company and Progent's staff size, breadth of technical experience, refined support software, and familiarity with corporate IT allow offices to avoid the pitfalls of excessive reliance on smaller service firms, independent freelance consultants, or limited in-house IT help.
Progent stands out by offering:
- Best Practices
Progent's team of Microsoft and Cisco Certified experts average longer than ten years of real-world professional experience, in the trenches of network service, performing a wide variety of technical tasks for a large mix of businesses. Every Progent consultant shares a proven set of personal best practices which are incorporated into company-wide leading practices training that Progent teaches its consulting team. This guarantees that you get not only world-class IT help, but also a support engineer with field-tested approaches for using computer knowledge to fix actual network problems efficiently.
- Value Pricing
Progent's pricing model is to charge for online service and on-premises help by the minute. As a result, you pay just for delivered services. Progent does not demand a higher rate for off-hours or priority service, and inside California or in areas where Progent provides on-site service, Progent does not bill for travel except for emergency calls where on-site time is less than 4 hours. In addition, Progent imposes no startup fee and asks no retainer for support services provided during regular business hours. Many service organizations demand substantial minimum payments or charge for every quarter hour or longer. Progent's fine granularity eliminates big invoices for fast solutions so you won't be forced to permit less critical problems to fester.
- Full Documentation of Delivered Services
Progent has created a comprehensive support reporting system that records and formats complete documentation for all billed support activities. Unlike some independent consultants or small support organizations who provide minimal documentation or details of tasks performed, every service delivered by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Each Progent consultant has access to the service reports sent by each staff member to each client. The practice of detailing and archiving support activity results in more effective support and avoids a slew of typical problems such as when a support customer is effectively held captive to a consultant who refuses to release vital service information.
- Remote Server Monitoring with Microsoft Operations Manager
Progent is one of the only support firms to provide 24x7 network monitoring services powered by MS System Center Operations Manager. Microsoft Operations Manager allows your network support to be proactive rather than reactive. By anticipating potential problems before they result in lost productivity, network monitoring can save your IT network from painful and costly service disruptions.
How Does Our Company Begin Receiving Remote Network Help from Progent?
To get started with Progent's Nationwide Remote Support offerings or to find out more about Progent's phone support programs, call Progent at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368) or see Contact Progent. If you have an urgent requirement for IT support, visit Immediate Online Support.