Immediate Remote Technical Support for Chicago Illinois Information Networks
For businesses in Chicago Illinois, Progent provides remote help for networks based on any combination of Microsoft, Cisco, macOS and OS, or Linux platforms. Progent's Microsoft Certified professionals have delivered online troubleshooting to companies in every state in the U.S. (See recommendations from Progent's customers.) In addition, Progent offers the consultation services of Cisco CCIE-certified network specialists to solve challenging networking problems, as well as the assistance of CISA and CISSP-certified security experts to handle advanced security design and troubleshooting jobs.
Progent's remote support engineers provide excellent leverage due to the fact that they have the real-world background and are equipped with the advanced tools needed to resolve most network problems rapidly. Efficient support reduces direct costs since service calls accumulate minimal chargeable minutes. Online support also avoids the expense of dispatching an engineer to your site. Your organization benefits additionally in incidental expenses by reducing or avoiding network downtime and related costs resulting from business disruption, disgruntled customers and vendors, unproductive workers, and distracted executives. Progent's advanced remote consulting expertise is especially important in environments that are dependent on public clouds for vital infrastructure or applications such as Azure, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform, or where on-premises support may not be useful.
Progent's billing policy for online help is designed to leverage your network support investment. Progent bills on a per-minute basis for phone consulting, so you pay exclusively for the services that you receive. In contrast to many remote support companies, Progent requires no service activation charge or minimum payments. Progent's one-minute billing unit and clean policy for pricing eliminate situations where speedy. minor fixes somehow end up as substantial bills. Progent's penchant for dealing with technical issues efficiently means your business spends less money.
Progent's Online Consulting and Troubleshooting Expertise
Over time, Progent has mastered an array of customized technologies and proven methodologies that allow the maximum degree of efficiency for online help and repair for computer networks of all sizes. Progent's online support team can interface to your company's environment remotely without compromising system security.
Progent's sophisticated technical support database application stores detailed histories of the support that Progent's clients have received. Progent's team consultants have access to the history of services provided to every client by every engineer. This history of trouble tickets and solutions is stored as a quickly exploitable support knowledge base that allows Progent's remote support experts to share their experiences company-wide to make sure that the quality of Progent's technical support improves over time. Progent's high-level certifications and working associations with important industry leaders such as Cisco and Microsoft open up other vast technical support databases and allow fast access to manufacturers' in-house support staff with the result that Progent's remote service specialists can come up with the best resolutions promptly.
Remote support services available from Progent to companies in Chicago Illinois include:
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Authorized Windows Expertise
Progent's Microsoft-certified remote service professionals can provide computer repair and consulting help for the complete line of Microsoft server products. Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and can provide your business the expertise of support professionals who can assist you with a broad range of platform support services such as Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design and integration services,
Windows Server 2019 migration,
Windows Server 2016 integration for hybrid environments, Windows Server 2012 R2 planning and deployment,
Windows Server 2008 R2 maintenance,
Microsoft Exchange 2019 planning and configuration,
MS Exchange Server 2016 migration, Exchange 2013 configuration,
Microsoft Exchange 2010 maintenance,
SharePoint Server 2019 planning and deployment, SharePoint Server 2016 migration expertise, Microsoft Teams configuration help, Microsoft Skype for Business planning and deployment support, Lync Server integration, and Office Communications Server 2007 troubleshooting,
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 management and ISA Server migration, Microsoft SQL Server 2019 integration expertise, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 consulting, Microsoft SQL Server 2016 integration and development and SQL Server 2014 consulting,
Systems Center Operations Manager system monitoring and reporting,
Project Server and Project Server Online planning,
Microsoft Access Programming,
SBS Server 2011 consulting, and
Windows 2012 R2 Essentials cloud integration.
Progent in addition can deliver a broad range of cost-effective desktop services to help your business to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and manage desktop PCs and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent's PC desktop consulting services include providing Windows 11 planning and migration consulting and Windows 10 integration consulting, as well as System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) design and deployment, Microsoft System Center 2016 Configuration Manager cloud integration, and Intune integration help to centralize the administration of your desktops along with your cloud-connected tablets and smartphones.
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Talk to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) for Complex Infrastructure Troubleshooting
The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification is the premier accreditation for network professionals, and certifies a person's network technology skills at the master level. Cisco CCIEs know how to deal with the most complex problems surrounding network infrastructure design, deployment, maintenance, compliance, and problem solving. Cisco qualified CCIEs can cooperate on a privileged basis with Cisco's internal engineers in isolating anomalies with IOS Software network management tools and coming up with workarounds or identifying program updates. CCIEs represent an excellent cost-effectiveness since their depth of experience permits them to find solutions for problems rapidly. In common instances, less qualified consultants can struggle for hours or even days with the same tasks that a Cisco CCIE can resolve in a few minutes. Progent's Cisco CCIE certified support experts can communicate with your network using the latest on-line troubleshooting technology in order to provide efficient, safe, and economical analysis and remediation.
Chicago Metro Area Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Chicago Metro Area.
Progent locations in Chicago Metro Area
Progent's CCIEs offer assistance with the complete line of Cisco's market leading family of networking products. Cisco technology support available from Progent includes ASA 5500-X Next Generation firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging, Cisco routers consulting, Cisco Catalyst switch consulting services, Nexus switch consulting and support, Meraki switches integration, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) integration and technical support, Cisco Voice over IP phones and IP video phones solutions and Cisco wireless VoIP phones configuration, Cisco Meraki wireless AP planning and configuration, Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Points consulting help, Cisco WiFi controllers support Services, Cisco VPN and Network Security engineering support, and SIP and CUBE infrastructure solutions for SIP PSTN trunks and Cisco CUBE integration consulting. Progent also offers remote and onsite wireless site surveys to help you to modernize your Wi-Fi infrastructure.
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Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is intended to help you to complete the urgent first step in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware engineer can assist businesses to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your Chicago network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly 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 and Operational Continuity Services
Progent's ransomware recovery consultants can help your Chicago business to restore an IT network damaged by a ransomware crypto-worm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Conti or Egregor. Progent's team of IT security experts have the wide selection of skills necessary to reconstruct all vital components of a compromised network quickly and with minimal loss of data. To learn more, visit Progent's ransomware removal and business continuity expertise.
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CISM and CISSP Certified System Security Consultants
Progent's certified CISSP and CISSP-ISSAP security and compliance experts can provide a range of system protection services that can strengthen the defenses of your Windows, Apple macOS and OS X, Linux, or UNIX environment against attacks or assist your company to clean up rapidly following a damaging breach. Security services available from Progent include: thorough information security audits using utilities such as GFI LANguard NSS, EEYE Vulnerability Scanner, and products from Solar Winds tools and Nikto; fast cleanup after virus and worm attacks; integrating firewalls; establishing safe techniques for off-site and mobile communication; defending your email system from spam and directory harvest attacks; and initiating 24x7 proactive monitoring.
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Hybrid Cloud Integration Solutions

Progent offers advanced online support to help businesses of any size integrate their IT infrastructure with popular public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Progent can help your IT team to plan and administer hybrid environments that support Windows and Linux operating systems and apps in both cloud-only solutions or in hybrid topologies that seamlessly combine local resources along with public clouds. To assist you to integrate public cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a range of cloud migration support services that include Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange,
Azure hybrid cloud planning and integration consulting, Amazon AWS hybrid cloud migration, Amazon Web Marketing Service programming and debugging, and Google Cloud integration expertise. Progent has over 20 years of background delivering high-level consulting support remotely, and Progent can make sure you successfully carry out your cloud migration projects on schedule and affordably.
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VMware Site Recovery Manager Planning and Deployment
VMware's Site Recovery Manager is a component of VMware vCenter that allows you to specify, automate and verify a repeatable process for recovering applications and services quickly following a breakdown. SRM provides centrally managed and automated disaster recovery, application mobility, plus non-disruptive site relocation, failback and site re-protect. SRM also allows transparent testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and fixes and can produce audit reports to verify complete service restoration, validate SLAs and prove compliance. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consultant to help your organization to design, configure, test and administer a DR solution powered by VMware SRM.
Progent's VMware vSphere experts have extensive experience of VMware vCloud Director (vCD), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vCloud Suite tools for managing private and hybrid cloud solutions that provide high availability, data security, and disaster recovery. Progent can also provide advanced VMware NSX expertise from a VCDX-NV certified network designer to assist you to build a fully virtualized Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) that can be provisioned or re-purposed in minutes and administered with a high level of automation regardless of the hardware used by the basic network infrastructure.
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UNIX/Linux, Sun Solaris, and Apple macOS and OS X Expertise
Progent's UNIX/Linux experts and Apple macOS and OS X technology specialists offer online consulting services to address a broad array of information technologies such as system infrastructure, email solutions, system and process security, plus UNIX and Microsoft Windows integration. For server economization and simplified management in environments that include Linux and Microsoft Windows, Progent can provide VMware vSphere consulting and Citrix expertise. Progent can also help with transitioning from older applications to Windows or Linux-powered environments. Progent's team-oriented approach to solving technical problems promotes quick escalation, when required, to consultants with task-relevant experience to handle complex scenarios. This expedites repair of urgent problems, minimizes network downtime, and cuts support expense.
Important Linux variants for which Progent can provide expertise include:
RedHat Linux
SUSE Linux
Debian GNU/Linux
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
Progent's ProSight Subscription-based IT Services for Small and Medium Size Organizations
Progent provides a family of affordable, subscription-based managed services intended to enable small and medium-size businesses to utilize the same cutting-edge IT solutions used by some of the world's leading corporations. Progent's ProSight line of outsourced network management services addresses all key facets of information technology including email content filtering, threat defense based on machine leaning, automated backup and disaster recovery, network infrastructure management, VM hosting, and IT asset documentation management. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:
- ProSight LAN Watch: Network, Server, and Endpoint Remote Monitoring Services
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's network, server and endpoint monitoring managed service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management technology to keep your network running at peak levels by checking the health of critical assets that drive your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alert is transmitted automatically to your designated IT management staff and your Progent engineering consultant so that any looming problems can be addressed before they can disrupt productivity. Learn more details about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring consulting.
- ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM: Unified RMM Solution for Networks, Servers, and Workstations
ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM software delivers a centralized, cloud-based platform for managing your network, server, and desktop devices by offering tools for streamlining common time-consuming jobs. These can include health checking, update management, automated repairs, endpoint configuration, backup and recovery, anti-virus defense, secure remote access, standard and custom scripts, asset inventory, endpoint profile reporting, and troubleshooting help. When ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM spots a serious issue, it sends an alarm to your designated IT management personnel and your assigned Progent consultant so potential problems can be taken care of before they impact your network. Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM server and desktop monitoring consulting.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it easy and affordable for smaller organizations to diagram, track, optimize and troubleshoot their networking appliances like routers and switches, firewalls, and load balancers plus servers, client computers and other networked devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology, ProSight WAN Watch makes sure that network maps are kept updated, copies and displays the configuration information of almost all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and generates alerts when issues are discovered. By automating time-consuming management and troubleshooting processes, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off common chores such as making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding appliances that require important software patches, or resolving performance issues. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure management services.
- ProSight Reporting: Real-time Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Platforms
ProSight Reporting is an expanding suite of in-depth reporting tools created to work with the industry's top ticketing and network monitoring platforms including ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and utilizes color coding to surface and contextualize critical issues like inconsistent support follow-up or endpoints with out-of-date AVs. By exposing ticketing or network health problems concisely and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances productivity, reduces management hassle, and saves money. For details, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring applications.
- ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of management outsourcing plans that deliver backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS products manage and track your backup processes and allow transparent backup and fast recovery of important files/folders, apps, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these fully managed services are best suited for your IT environment.
- 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 technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.
- ProSight Multi-Factor Authentication with Cisco Duo: Identity Validation, Endpoint Policy Enforcement, and Protected Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a device that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. For more information about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services.
- ProSight Shared Help Desk: Outsourced and Shared IT Support Center Services
Progent's Co-managed Service Desk provides a seamless supplement to your core support organization. User interaction with the Help Desk, delivery of support, problem escalation, trouble ticket creation and updates, performance measurement, and management of the service database are cohesive whether incidents are resolved by your corporate support resources, by Progent, or a mix of the two. You have complete versatility to expand or shrink your part of technical support work as circumstances demand. Progent provides startup deployment and provisioning of the professional services PSA software plus workflow documentation, validation and education.
To learn more about ProSight Shared Support, refer to ProSight Shared Call Desk.
- 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 utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Filtering
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.
- Progent's Patch Management: Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to optimizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.
- ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management Services
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and affordable way for small and mid-size organizations to obtain an objective assessment of the health of their IT system. Based on some of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in the industry, and supervised by Progent's certified team of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how closely the configuration of your core network devices conform to best practices. The Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a low, one-time cost and provide immediate ROI like a cleaner Active Directory (AD) environment. Both versions also include one year of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management (RMM). Benefits can include easier network management, better compliance with government and industry security requirements, higher utilization of IT resources, quicker troubleshooting, more reliable backup and restore, and less downtime. See more about ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure review.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service built around a brief interview with a Progent backup/recovery consultant. The fact-finding interview is designed to assess your organization's preparedness either to stop or recover rapidly following an attack by a ransomware strain such as Ryuk, WannaCry, MongoLock, or Hermes. Progent will consult with you directly to gather information about your existing cybersecurity posture and backup platform, and Progent will then deliver a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report describing how you can follow industry best practices to create an efficient security and backup environment that meets your business requirements. For additional information, visit The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report.
Special Consulting Services Available from Progent
Progent offers the skills of world-class remote consulting professionals for special information technology programs. Billing charges for longer-term consulting projects are determined based on the qualifications of the engineers involved. Progent's background in these important fields of computer technology allows clients to execute critical initiatives economically and on time. Progent's special remote engineering services include:
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Help Desk Support
Progent's Call Center support programs for businesses with networks that incorporate Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, or UNIX/Linux products include comprehensive Help Desk services, co-managed Helpdesk services, and Helpdesk consulting.
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer smaller businesses a complete service desk solution that handles all facets of remote desktop technical support from initial requests through ticketing, remote desktop control, progress tracking, problem resolution, and reporting. Progent offers call desk services at a substantial discount off Progent's normal Level 1 desktop service rates, and Progent offers the option of rapid as-needed escalation to subject matter experts to resolve the most problems.
Progent's Co-managed Help Desk services allow your IT organization to split the load for Help Desk support seamlessly between your IT staff and Progent's large roster of seasoned desktop support engineers and matter experts (SMEs). Progent's Co-managed Help Desk service is a collaborative support solution built around the top professional services automation (PSA) platform for handling service requests, ticket lifecycle, ownership, status tracking, and reporting.
Progent's Help Desk staff of seasoned information technology consultants gives your workers in Chicago Illinois instant contact with a large support resource with substantial background delivering phone help and online repair service for networks powered by Microsoft Windows, Cisco, macOS and OS X, UNIX, or Linux products. Progent's mission is to give the Help Desk Call Center perception as a significant enabler of company productivity, and Progent's goal is to fix and not just record technical problems.
- Applications Services: Training, Custom Programming, and Troubleshooting
Progent's Applications Consulting Group provides phone-based advanced engineering expertise and training in special application areas such as ERP, Manufacturing Requirements Planning, customizing accounting packages, and CRM. Progent also offers consulting expertise, programming, and training for familiar Microsoft applications including Microsoft CRM, Office Project, Microsoft 365 Word, and Office Excel. To find out more about Progent's consulting, customization, and training offerings, go to Progent's Business Application Experts Team.
- Centralized and Streamlined Administration of Hybrid Cloud Networks
System Center unifies and automates the administration of hybrid cloud networks through comprehensive support for Windows Server 2022 servers, Windows 10 and Windows 11; cohesive management of mixed-OS networks that include Linux, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware; and better public and private cloud support including tighter integration with Microsoft Intune for Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphone administration plus native integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OSM) for cloud-based analytics and reporting. Progent's System Center consultants can provide advanced online and onsite expertise for all components of System Center2including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Progent can help your business to design and configure a new deployment of Microsoft System Center2, expand or optimize an existing one, upgrade smoothly from a prior release of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center environment.
- Remote Hybrid Network Monitoring and Reporting Services
Progent offers businesses in Chicago Illinois remote hybrid network monitoring by providing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) consulting services. Progent can customize SCOM to accommodate your business so that your network support is proactive rather than reactive. By uncovering emerging issues before they result in crashes, remote monitoring can head off inconvenient and costly network crises. Progent can also assist with server and infrastructure monitoring products such as Nagios and MRTG to analyze UNIX/Linux, Sun Solaris, or Apple macOS and OS X networks, Windows environments, or environments that incorporate a combination of platforms.
How Your Chicago Business Can Contact Progent's Online Technical Support Professionals
To contact Progent about urgent phone-based assistance with Microsoft, Apple macOS and OS X, or Linux environments, visit Progent's Nationwide Online Help, phone 1-800-993-9400, or visit Contact Progent.
For organizations and startups in Chicago Illinois, Progent's phone-based network support engineers can deliver effective and cost-effective IT support the moment your company needs it. More than 20 years of offering online tech support has earned Microsoft Partner certification for Progent's team of engineers and has enabled Progent to acquire world-class troubleshooting skills and to refine online connectivity technology to fix computer problems quickly while eliminating the cost and lost time that comes with on-site service calls.
Even if your Chicago office has a regular independent support technician or employs an in-house organization that can handle common network issues, Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can provide an easy and seamless virtual expansion of your local resources in cases when your regular IT support personnel either don't have the time or the experience to resolve unexpected system crises or especially complex integration projects.
Benefits of Progent's IT Support for Organizations in Chicago Illinois
Progent's online network troubleshooting services allow your Chicago organization to have the benefits of on-call, enterprise-level IT support without the expense of maintaining an in-house IT organization. Your information system will acquire greater strategic worth by being more available, efficient, and secure. Advantages to your business include:
- Seamless virtual expansion of your local support resources
With most businesses in Chicago Illinois, local computer support providers, whether made up of independent consultants or an in-house maintenance staff, can resolve typical network issues. However, serious problems sometimes occur when your regular resources are overstretched or absent, and some problems may stem from technology that is beyond the scope of your local service technicians. In these situations, Progent's online service experts give you an easy, quick, and affordable solution to augment your local help and to transfer valuable knowledge to increase your ability to handle downstream issues in-house.
- Reduced Dependence on Freelance Consultants
For IT support, smaller organizations commonly depend on independent freelance consultants. While independent service people carry less overhead than larger service firms and can often charge marginally less, they are sometimes stretched too thin, making it impossible to respond quickly to urgent situations. If an independent service provider is busy with another customer, sick, on a trip, or in training, the lack of reserve personnel may require your company to wait for assistance during an IT crisis. As your business grows, network downtime and problems with vital software are more expensive. The money you thought you were conserving on an independent can be eaten up fast by reduced productivity. Progent provides a dependable source of reserve service experts to insure your IT system stays available.
- Build a Scalable Foundation for Seamless Growth
Businesses often begin with an information architecture created on a modest budget. Without a robust infrastructure, slap-dash repairs can get piled on top of a shaky foundation. As a company grows, stability and scalability issues can impede the productivity of the organization. These poorly designed environments need careful assessment, intelligent long-term planning, and broad-based IT knowledge to upgrade to a system architecture that can offer the stable foundation to handle critical business demands and facilitate downstream growth.
- Interact with Problem Solvers Rather Than Product Resellers
Smaller businesses require advice and technical education to navigate through an ever more complicated maze of product options available for accelerating business success and enhancing efficiency. Businesses hardly need a network consultant who is attempting to earn a commission on a specific vendor's technology. IT support and product sales can result in a scenario where the recommended
solution is built around a profitable technology instead of the true needs of a business. Progent eliminates these conflicts of interest by offering just services rather than products. This allows Progent to align technical consulting with the best needs of customers.
What Makes Progent Different from Other Service Organizations?
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner consulting firm and Progent's staff size, breadth of technical knowledge, refined support tools, and familiarity with enterprise networking enable companies to avoid the pitfalls of exclusive dependence on smaller service organizations, individual freelance service providers, or over-stretched in-house IT help.
Progent stands out by offering:
- Certified Expertise in Microsoft's Entire Family of Servers
Progent offers in-depth support for Microsoft's popular server products with services such as Microsoft Windows Server 2022 planning and migration expertise, Windows Server 2019 migration services, Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud solutions, Windows 2012 R2 Server planning and integration help, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 migration, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server maintenance, Microsoft Exchange 2019 Server deployment, MS Exchange Server 2016 planning and deployment, Exchange Server 2013 integration, Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server management, Exchange 2007 Server and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 upgrades, plus Microsoft SQL Server 2019 hybrid integration consulting, MS SQL Server 2017 migration, Microsoft SQL Server 2016 integration, Microsoft SQL Server 2014 support, and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 management and troubleshooting.
- Value Pricing
Progent's pricing model is to charge for online support and in-person visits per minute. As a result, you pay just for delivered services. Progent does not impose a higher rate for off-hours or emergency support, and inside California or in areas where Progent provides on-premises service, Progent does not bill for travel except for emergency support where on-site work is less than 4 hours. In addition, Progent imposes no minimum charge and asks no retainer for services delivered during regular working hours. Many service organizations impose substantial minimum payments or charge for every fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's fine granularity avoids big bills for quick solutions so you will not be forced to permit less critical problems to fester.
- Complete Documentation of Delivered Services
Progent has created a sophisticated service reporting system that stores and organizes detailed documentation for all delivered support activities. Unlike many independent consultants or local service firms who offer scant documentation or specifics of services performed, every service delivered by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Each Progent consultant has use of the service documentation sent by every consultant to each customer. The practice of documenting and archiving support records allows more effective support and avoids a variety of typical problems such as when a service client is virtually held hostage to a consultant who won't let go of the keys to the kingdom.
- Automated Network Monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Progent is one of the only consulting companies to offer round-the-clock network tracking services powered by MS Operations Manager. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager causes your computer maintenance to be proactive rather than reactive. By anticipating possible issues before they result in lost productivity, network monitoring can keep your information network from painful and costly service losses.
How Does My Business Start Getting Online Computer Help from Progent?
To initiate Progent's online help offerings or to find out more about Progent's online support programs, call Progent at 1-866-PROGENT (866-776-4368) or see Contact Progent. If you have an urgent need for IT help, visit Immediate Network Support.