Expanding your remote workforce may have a significant effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company workflows. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and debug IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can assist your Chicago company to select the appropriate technologies and adhere to best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you over challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.
Progent can assist Chicago, Illinois organizations to with any facet of building a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Call Desk outsourcing, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.
Microsoft Integrated 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 applications that deliver a cohesive user experience for sharing data and ideas throughout multiple sites and on a wide range of endpoint devices. Progent has delivered remote consulting services for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server since their first publication and can assist your company to tune these critical collaboration products to optimize the effectiveness of your at-home 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 provide real-time collaboration and communication. Developed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium can enable chat, audio/video meetings with screen sharing, calling, cloud voicemail, group email, as well as file and application sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (previously called Azure Active Directory) for delivering its full range of capabilities. For additional information about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams, visit solution design and deployment consulting for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
SharePoint uses web sites to allow collaboration and information delivery by providing policy-based access to data, workflow, and tools for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint allows you to build secure web portals that permits at-home workforce to see and edit aggregated corporate intelligence by means of Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social networking sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). To find out about Progent's SharePoint expertise, see SharePoint configuration and 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 find out about Progent's Exchange support services, visit deployment consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s collaborative cloud-based storage service, similar to GoogleDrive. At-home users can store files to the OneDrive service, and co-workers anywhere can retrieve them safely through a web browser. Included with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows home workers to co-author documents. Revisions created offline are automatically uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. For details about Progent's support services for Microsoft OneDrive, see Onedrive configuration consulting.
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