Grand Rapids At Home Workers Connectivity Support and Consulting
Collaboration Solutions Consulting Services
Expanding your remote workforce can have a major effect on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Grand Rapids company to select the right tools and follow best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns top value. Progent can provide support services ranging from on demand expertise for getting you over challenging technical roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can assist Grand Rapids, Michigan businesses to with any facet of creating a high-performing work-at-home environment by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.
Microsoft Collaboration Software for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office and Microsoft 365 families, providing a powerful environment of productivity apps that deliver a consistent user interface for exchanging information throughout multiple sites and on a wide selection of endpoint devices. Progent has delivered remote consulting support for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange since their initial publication and can help your company to configure these flagship collaboration products to optimize the effectiveness of your remote workforce.
SharePoint utilizes web entities to allow collaboration and knowledge sharing by providing policy-driven delivery of data, workflow, and tools for looking through company-wide information silos. SharePoint permits you to create protected web portals that enables remote workforce to view and edit aggregated business intelligence via Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social web sites, and Web Parts. To learn about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, go to SharePoint configuration and development consulting.
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. For details about Progent's Exchange consulting expertise, see deployment consulting services for Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s collaborative cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service, comparable to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can save files to the OneDrive service, and co-workers can retrieve them securely via a web browser. Included with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows home employees to co-edit documents. Revisions made offline are automatically uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. For information about Progent's expertise for OneDrive, go to Onedrive integration experts.
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Professional Microsoft LCS Server Instant Messaging
Top Microsoft Live Communications Server Consultants
Microsoft Office Communications Server delivers Instant Messaging and Real Presence in a scalable, world-class package featuring advanced protection, transparent integration with additional Microsoft software, an extendable, industry-standard development environment, and compliance with regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and GLB. Communications Server offers lower costs and improved operational efficiencies, enhanced worker productivity, and stronger IP protection. Microsoft Communications Server has been replaced by Lync Server, which in turn has been replaced by Skype for Business. Progent's Microsoft-certified IM and Presence experts offer online and on-premises support and mediation services for your Office Communications Server 2007 deployment and can assist you to assess the costs and benefits of migrating to Skype for Business. Progent can also help you to plan and execute an efficient upgrade that will add business value to your IT system
SQL 2008 Reporting Services Development Group
Largest Technology Consulting SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is a complete, web-aware database and data analysis package that enables the rapid development of cutting-edge enterprise-class applications that can give your business a critical competitive advantage. SQL Server features core support for XML and the capability to query across the Internet and outside the firewall. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2000 engineers, averaging more than over 10 years of background helping with Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, installing and supporting Microsoft SQL Server applications that are well connected with other applications powered Microsoft's .NET platform.
Microsoft ISA Server Online Consulting
After Hours ISA 2004 Standard Edition Server Technology Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have long backgrounds developing Microsoft ISA Server-based security installations for IT networks with many offices, mobile users, and line-of-business eCommerce applications. Progent's ISA Firewall consultants can assist your small business in planning and implementing a configuration of ISA Server 2000 or ISA 2004 Server that meets your information security needs without adversely limiting your network productivity. Progent's consultants can help you migrate from Microsoft Proxy Server from Microsoft ISA 2000 to ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or Microsoft ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
VLAN Test Lab Specialist
Top Ranked System Pilot Testing Lab Technology Professional
Progent's Test and Training Lab at the QTS Colocation Center can be used for piloting mission-critical applications, creating cost-effective migration methodologies, assessing and tuning performance, planning or validating disaster recovery solutions, mitigating compatibility issues, and building training environments for new products and technologies. For Progent clients who lack sufficient internal resources to configure effective test environments, the lab cuts capital outlay and engineering risk and helps keep vital IT projects on schedule.
Small Business Network Consulting Services Linux Phone-based
Linux RedHat Phone-based Services
Progent offers nationwide urgent technical support and consulting services for businesses that run environments based on versions of the Linux OS or whose information systems include a combination of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft Windows products. Remote technical support offers maximum leverage for your information technology budget by protecting user productivity and limiting the hours charged for network analysis and repair. Sophisticated remote support utilities and skilled service specialists and consultants allow Progent to handle most IT problems without wasting time and expense by going to your site. In most of situations your network problems can be remediated by telephone or through a combination of phone support and online network analysis. Progent can put you in touch with Cisco certified CCIE network experts and CISA certified security specialists to help with the most challenging network issues.
Exchange 2013 Migration Professionals
Exchange 2013 Security Online Technical Support
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes significant enhancements to the functionality of its predecessor Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and introduces important new features as well as a revamped structure. These improvements affect key areas such as ease of administration, availability, security, cost of ownership, collaboration, extensibility, throughput, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange Server 2013 consultants can assist your organization to understand the possible business benefits of upgrading to Exchange Server 2013, design an efficient validation and deployment plan, and educate your IT staff to manage your Microsoft Exchange 2013 solution. Progent also offers ongoing online consulting and management for Exchange Server 2013.
Private Clouds for Small Businesses Services
Consultant ProSight VM Hosting
Progent's ProSight Virtual hosting services offer small businesses a range of advantages including reduced capital costs, savings on operational expense, improved management focus, enterprise-class security, enhanced fault tolerance, and business continuity.
password management system Consult
certificate expiration management Consult
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it.
Security Firm Juniper SRX Series Firewall
Juniper SRX Series Gateway Security Tech Services
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you evaluate the business case for adopting Juniper's SRX Series gateways, plan and execute cost-effective deployments, configure equipment to reflect your security strategy, and provide ongoing consulting services to help you monitor, manage, update, and troubleshoot your environment in order to maximize the business value of your SRX gateway solution.
Immediate Sun Solaris Consultancy
24-7 Solaris Specialists
Progent's UNIX platform consulting services provide small businesses and developers assistance with administering and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent offers your business access to UNIX consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP certification. This broad range of experience provides you with a convenient single source to show you how to create and maintain a secure and reliable mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with popular versions of UNIX such as Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms such as RedHat Linux, SuSE, Debian GNU/Linux and Mandrake.
Part-Time CIO Technical Support Services
Chief Information Officer Onsite Technical Support
Progent offers the temporary assistance of a veteran CIO who can provide a broad perspective to help you pick and support network technology to meet your present situation and that can serve as a firm foundation for your growth. Progent's temporary Chief Information Officer consulting services provide economic leverage to companies trying to maximize the impact of their IT expenditures but who are unable or unwilling to take on one more executive-level position to their head count. Since Progent is vendor-neutral, with a sizable team of consultants certified to maintain all major operating systems and networking technologies plus a broad selection and application software, Progent is in an ideal situation to offer objective advice as well as advanced technical support for creating information solutions that fit the special needs of your organization.
24x7 CCNP Certified Onsite Technical Support VPN
VPN Support
Cisco's network security and offsite access products for small organizations provide a comprehensive line of easy-to-administer security products to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can help your business to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, Cisco Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi access points, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit best with your business objectives.
Remote Employees Helpdesk Services Remote Consulting
Offsite Workforce Helpdesk Services Remote Support
Progent offers small and mid-size businesses overflow or comprehensive Help Desk call center services for at-home workers.
IT Consultants IP Communications
CCIE Expert Certified Remote Support IP Telephony
Progent's Cisco-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone experts can assist your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the latest media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Cisco Unified CM, originally branded CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can also assist you to install Cisco Unified Communications Manager applications that include Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service with Jabber support, Cisco Unity Connection for voicemail management, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach (SNR, and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for building a highly automated customer contact solution. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including reviewing dial plans, setting up SIP gateways, installing ISR routers with CUBE internetworking support, and creating Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony solutions for survivability.
Les Kent has a 35-year history of effective technology integration, corporate administration, marketing, and operations. He has demonstrated a talent for creating sophisticated IT solutions during his time as as a system architect, programmer, project manager, deployment expert, and troubleshooter for small companies, start-ups, and major corporations.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Information Technology Consulting
Windows Server 2008 R2 Professional
Windows Server 2008 is an important advance in making information networks more protected and available, simpler to virtualize and administer, higher performing, and able to provide a better environment for web publishing. Progent can help your business get the most from the enhancements built into Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by delivering Microsoft-certified consulting, tech support, training, temporary staffing, monitoring, and security expertise.
Microsoft and Cisco Authorized Expert Amazon EC2 integration Development Companies
Immediate Amazon Web Services hybrid cloud solutions Programming Firm
Progent offers cost-effective remote consulting to assist businesses of any size to integrate Amazon AWS cloud services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual machine hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for scalable high-performance storage, and Glacier for value-priced long-term archiving. Progent can help your IT team with every aspect of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, preparedness assessment, system design, pilot testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance optimization, software license management, backup/restore solutions, and security and compliance. Progent can provide advanced expertise with firewall configuration and VPN technology and can help you create all-cloud or hybrid cloud networking models that seamlessly incorporate Amazon AWS resources. Progent offers occasional consulting to assist you to resolve complex technical issues or Progent can deliver project management outsourcing to help you move to the Amazon AWS platform on schedule and on budget.
ransomware protection review Engineers
Urgent ransomware recovery strategies Engineers
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service based on a brief interview with a Progent backup/recovery expert. The interview is designed to assess your company's preparedness to defend against ransomware or recover rapidly after a ransomware incident. Progent will consult with you personally to gather information concerning your existing antivirus tools and backup/recovery procedures, and Progent will then deliver a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report describing how you can apply best practices to create a cost-effective AV and backup/recovery environment that minimizes your vulnerability to ransomware and aligns with your business needs.
Nexus Switch Scripting Technical Support
Nexus Switch VXLAN Remote Consulting
Cisco Nexus switches are intended to provide the speed, expandability, resilience, virtualization support, capacity, security and manageability needed to act as the heart of an enterprise data center. Progent's Cisco-certified Nexus switch consultants can provide online and on-premises support services to help your business to plan an efficient network topology, set up test systems to confirm your switching solution, install and configure Nexus switches, define and implement appropriate policies, run security vulnerability tests, set up advanced monitoring and alert systems, fully utilize resources by means of virtualization technologies, analyze and repair switching and routing issues, optimize performance, plan for expected growth, and set up the powerful zero-downtime features available for Cisco's Nexus products. Progent can also help your business to upgrade non-disruptively from outdated Nexus switches or Cisco Catalyst switches to up-to-date Nexus switches.
Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 Online Technical Support
SBS Support Services
Microsoft Small Business Server is a low-cost collection of server products that offers the basis for a powerful but manageable information. The technical demands of the Microsoft .NET products bundled with Small Business Server requires a computer consultant with real-world experience designing and building cohesive, comprehensive business technology solutions. Progent's Microsoft SBS Server professionals have an average of over a decade of experience supporting computer networks founded on Microsoft products. This background ensures you success in installing, managing, and troubleshooting IT environments that incorporate the Microsoft SBS Server suite of servers and applications.
24-Hour Windows and UNIX Engineer
Windows, UNIX, Solaris Specialists
Progent's UNIX family support services offer small companies and developers assistance with administering and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that run with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent offers your organization access to UNIX experts, consulting professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISA and CISSP credentials. This broad range of expertise provides you with an easy one-stop source to show you how to create and maintain a protected and reliable cross-platform network and communications environment that allows UNIX and Microsoft interoperability by integrating Microsoft Windows with major variants of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO, and SGI/Irix or leading Linux variations such as RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, PCLOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Exchange Server 2010 Technical Support Services
Specialist Exchange Server 2000
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 20 years of background designing, installing, and maintaining messaging systems for businesses in the and throughout the United States. Progent provides affordable Microsoft Exchange Servers consulting support to ensure that your email environment offers security, service continuity, easy connectivity for remote and wireless users, time-saving administrative utilities, and productive integration with telephony. Progent provides consulting and support services for Microsoft Exchange 2016, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010, MS Exchange 2007, Exchange 2003, and MS Exchange 2K. Progent can also help small or mid-size businesses to upgrade to MS Exchange 2016 Server or Microsoft Exchange 2013.
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