Progent can assist small and medium-size companies to set up endpoint security protection solutions and provide cleanup services needed to support remote workers.
Progent's consultants can help you with any phase of Microsoft Azure integration including requirements analysis, prerequisites assessment, solution architecture, pilot testing, implementation, automated management, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery preparedness, security policy enforcement, and compliance assessment. Progent can help you to configure and debug firewall appliances and VPN connections so your clients can safely access to Azure-based services, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you integrate critical Microsoft technologies to work in Azure including Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint. Progent can also assist your organization to create a hybrid cloud environment that seamlessly combines on-premises datacenters with Azure-based services.
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants offer expertise with all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation such as evaluating network vulnerability, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.
Widows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V advances the power of server virtualization in key areas such as secure multitenancy, flexible infrastructure, cloud readiness, expandability and performance, and fault tolerance. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can help your business to take advantage of Hyper-V to deploy and maintain virtual servers to reduce IT costs and enhance productivity.
Progent's Microsoft consultants can assist you to assess the benefits of Lync Server for your business and can assist you to design and carry out a deployment of Lync Server that unifies the administration of IM and Presence and increases the productivity of your office employees, at-home workers, and smartphone users. Progent can in addition assist you to perform a smooth upgrade to Lync Server 2010 from Microsoft Office Communications Server or Microsoft Live Communications Server, interface Microsoft Lync Server with Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft SQL Server, show you how you can use Lync Server to enhance the team-computing capabilities of Microsoft Office programs, and offer online seminars and continuing support for Microsoft Lync Server and other Microsoft platforms.
For small and midsize companies, network security and information assurance and compliance can be too complex to stay ahead of yet too dangerous to overlook. The largest largest institutions have been hacked, and the top cloud services have on occasion been taken down. It seems like there's no place to run. Progent has made it affordable for small and midsize organizations to implement critical security projects effectively by providing the benefit of billed time to the closest minute without any minimum charge for remote help. This means you can have the help of a seasoned computer consultant to provide just the help you need whenever you need it. Progent's CISA, CISM, GIAC, CISSP and ISSAP certified consultants can help you with any aspect of network security including security audits, virus defense and recovery, spam and email content filtering, email data loss and data leak prevention, compliance reporting, and creating a comprehensive security strategy.
Progent can show you how to prepare and implement an efficient move to Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains so that you retain your information, strengthen your security, modernize your analytics, take full advantage of Microsoft Office support, and reduce productivity interruption by creating and executing a smart migration strategy. Progent can also help educate new Microsoft Dynamics GP users so you don't lose productivity. Progent can improve your company reports and business analytics by offering Crystal Reports help, FRx programming, and Excel expertise. Progent's background with Microsoft .NET technology, Microsoft SQL Server solutions, and designing with VBasic, XML and other platforms make it possible to create custom business software and eCommerce programs that integrate seamlessly with Dynamics GP.
Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and medium-size businesses to plan, implement, optimize, administer, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate at-home workers.
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi technology consultants can help organizations to deploy, administer, and debug Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi Access Points.
Progent's Cisco certified networking experts can provide high-level support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) (formerly CallManager). Progent can assist you to integrate VoIP phones, design dial plans, configure SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploy ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and design UCS server high availability solutions.
Progent's Power BI consultants can help you to design, deploy, manage, update or troubleshoot your Power BI business analytics solution. Progent's database experts can help you to prepare your target data for Power BI reports and dashboards. Progent can assist you implement and manage a local, cloud based, or hybrid environment for Power BI.
Progent can provide the part-time or temporary assistance of a veteran CIO to provide strategic direction to help you pick and maintain network technology to match your present situation and that can serve as a solid basis for your growth. Progent's temporary Chief Information Officer consulting services provide economic advantages to organizations trying to optimize the benefits from their network expenditures but who are unable or hesitant to add another executive-level manager to their head count. Since Progent is vendor-agnostic, with a large team of engineers certified to support all leading OS platforms and networking technologies plus a wide selection and business applications, Progent is in a unique situation to offer unbiased recommendations as well as advanced technical support for creating information systems that match the special requirements of your organization.
Progent's fault tolerant system experts offer reliability consulting, disaster recovery services, network load balancing, 24x7 interoffice access, 24x7 Internet connection design, non-stop data center consulting, and other 24x7 operations support to help your company create a 24x7 environment for mission-critical applications. Progent possesses the experience to develop economical, fault-tolerant systems by deploying the expanding library of Windows Cluster servers including Windows 2003 Cluster Server, Microsoft SQL Server Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers can show you how to you design a high-availability mutli-location network with a fully redundant Internet connection and efficient network load balancing.
Fortinet next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) are industry leaders in offering top throughput for SSL inspection. Progent's Fortinet firewall experts can assist you to deploy your Fortinet security appliances to safeguard your digital resources at the network perimeter, within the data center, at branch locations, and at the cloud edge.
Progent's expert solution designers and programmers can assist your business to create enhancements to Microsoft GP/Great Plains that address the unique requirement of your organization without losing the benefits of Windows integration and connectivity. Progent can also offer help with a range of software development tools that can be used to create user-interface and data integrations with Microsoft GP/Great Plains. These integration tools include Dexterity, Modifier, Visual Studio for Dynamics, Extender, eConnect, Web Services for Dynamics GP, Integration Manager and ODBC.
Progent's Duo services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes significant improvements to the functionality of its predecessor Exchange 2010 and delivers powerful innovations as well as a redesigned architecture. These enhancements favorably impact vital IT areas such as manageability, high availability (HA), compliance, operational costs, teamwork, expandability, throughput, compatibility, and productivity. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting professionals can help you understand the potential advantages of upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2013, design a cost-effective validation and deployment plan, and educate your IT team to maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 solution. Progent can also provide ongoing remote consulting and management for Exchange Server 2013.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes significant enhancements to the functionality of its predecessor Microsoft Exchange 2010 and introduces powerful new features as well as a redesigned architecture. These improvements affect vital areas like manageability, availability, security, cost of ownership, collaboration, extensibility, throughput, compatibility, and productivity. Progent's certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting experts can assist your organization to evaluate the potential business benefits of migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, create an efficient validation and rollout plan, and educate your IT staff to manage your Microsoft Exchange 2013 solution. Progent also offers affordable remote consulting and management services for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
System Center Configuration Manager 2016 automates software deployment across multiple sites, centralizes compliance settings management, keeps track of network assets, guards against corporate data leakage, provides network health monitoring, enables safe self service, and delivers a single point of control for administering mixed-operating system networks based on on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment architectures. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM 2016 consultants and Azure cloud integration specialists can assist your organization with any facet of designing, implementing, operating and repairing a SCCM 2016 solution for local, cloud, or hybrid environments.
Progent's IT outsourcing services provide budget-friendly computer consulting for small companies. Whether it includes planning network architecture, setting up an internal Help Desk or outsourcing a one, rolling out an updated email system, monitoring your system, or building an on-line business solution, outsourcing your network technical services can contain expenses and eliminate uncertainties, permitting IT support expenses to grow in a more linear and controlled manner than is possible by building up a large, all-purpose internal IT staff. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers tell you how Progent can enable you to create a protected and robust network foundation for your vital applications based on Windows.
Progent's Citrix-certified experts can help you to assess the business benefits of the available editions of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, help you to use Citrix management utilities with your Hyper-V environment, and demonstrate to you how you can deploy Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V to improve the performance, availability, consistency, and recoverability of your virtual environment while reducing the cost of resources and operations and streamlining management tasks.
Progent's Microsoft Certified professionals offer world-class consulting for major implementations of Microsoft Exchange 2007. Progent's experts can help you prepare for multi-site Exchange Server 2007 installations or updates and can provide onsite personnel to help large companies with installations of Microsoft Exchange in the or any area served by Progent's consultants.
Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server consulting experts have broad backgrounds developing Microsoft-based security designs for information systems with many sites, remote users, and line-of-business web-based applications. A Progent ISA Server consultant can help your small business plan and deploy a configuration of ISA Server 2004 that meets your IT security needs without limiting your productivity.
Progent's ProSight portfolio of managed IT services are designed to offer organizations who have minimal internal network support teams with affordable access to world-class management platforms and technical expertise. Benefits of Progent's ProSight line of managed IT services include predictable IT management expenses, smart automation of common administrative processes, continual absorption of the latest information technology, graceful migration from legacy systems to modern solutions, close alignment of computer technology with strategic objectives, access to seasoned IT experts, and allowing management to focus on business instead of ever-changing computer technology.
Microsoft Lync 2013, rebranded Skype for Business, allows businesses of all sizes to build a manageable and secure communications environment that supports the modern Bring-Your-Own-Device computing style with IM, real-time presence, web meetings with app sharing, as well as IP-based and PSTN calling enabled for a wide range of stationary PCs and mobile devices. Progent's Microsoft-certified Lync Server 2013 experts and system integrators can help you to assess the advantages of Lync 2013, design an in-house, cloud-based (with Microsoft Lync Online) or hybrid topology appropriate for your present and future plans, implement Lync 2013 in a way that expedites your return on investment, and provide live webinar and onsite training to your management team and users. Progent offers in-depth expertise in key pieces of a Lync Server 2013 solution that include Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server Express and Exchange, and Progent can assist you to combine Lync Server 2013 with key Microsoft 365 applications such as Outlook and PowerPoint.
ProSight Reporting is an expanding family of in-depth reporting plug-ins created to integrate with the leading ticketing and network monitoring applications such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne.
Progent's Private Cloud Hosting outsourcing offers comprehensive hosting of a small or mid-size company's production servers in a solution that gives the maximum degree of dependability and expandability and is also simple to transfer to any data center. Progent's Private Cloud Hosting services are built upon mature virtualization techniques that allow small and midsize companies with mixed- platform environments to save significantly on the costs of capital investments, system support, and IT management while benefiting from enterprise-class reliability and an unmatched level of vendor flexibility.
Progent's Microsoft certified experts provide a variety of consulting services for Dynamics GP. Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains is an accounting and business analysis solution built, like all Microsoft accounting tools, on the scalable and familiar platform of Microsoft Windows technology. Dynamics GP provides an affordable tool for controlling and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, and human resources. Dynamics GP is easy to install and configure, and with its segmented approach you can license only the capability you currently need, with the option to add clients and enlarge capabilities in the future. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP consulting experts can help you install, customize and administer the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics GP or migrate smoothly from an earlier release.
Progent's staff of Microsoft and Cisco Certified consultants average more than a decade of hands-on professional background, in the trenches of network service, executing a broad range of technical tasks for a large mix of businesses. Every Progent consultant shares a refined collection of individual best practices that are incorporated into shared best practices standards that Progent instills in its consulting staff. This means that you get not only expert IT skills, but also a support engineer with field-tested methods for using computer knowledge to repair actual IT problems efficiently.
Progent's ProSight family of managed IT services are designed to provide businesses who maintain minimal in-house IT support teams with affordable help from world-class management platforms and technical experts. Benefits of Progent's ProSight catalog of managed services include fixed IT management expenses, smart automation of routine management tasks, ongoing adoption of new technology, graceful transition from legacy technology to modern solutions, close fit between computer technology with business objectives, guidance from seasoned network experts, and freeing up management to concentrate on business issues instead of ever-changing information technology.
Progent's Check Point Software firewall consultants can help you design, configure, and administer firewall environments that rely on Check Point Software NGFW security gateways and Check Point's subscription-based security services. Progent can also assist you support legacy Check Point firewalls or migrate smoothly to Check Point's next-generation security gateways.
Cisco has developed a full array of routers that includes routers built to deliver the protection, performance, and availability required by organizations ranging from small offices to worldwide enterprises and ISPs. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failover, and redundant power for improved reliability and network availability. Progent can help you select and integrate Cisco routers to establish a solid foundation for your IT system and to make it economical to grow as you add new users, open new offices, install new services, extend your network to clients and partners, and manage a more mobile workforce. Progent can provide help with a variety of routers powered by the Cisco IOS operating system, such as the Cisco 800 series of small office routers, Cisco 1800 and 2800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1900 and 4000 Generation 2 ISR routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for WAN edge applications, CRS Carrier Routing System for core Networks, plus older 3600 and 3700 Series Routers.
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts, or Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals, are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous examination and extensive work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.
Progent can provide the affordable services of online Internet connectivity experts to help your company to evaluate or update your Internet services so your Internet connectivity solution matches your business needs. Support services available from Progent's engineers include evaluation of your existing bandwidth utilization, vendor and plan analysis and selection, network provisioning, and managing a seamless switchover to a different ISP and/or service plan. Provisioning can include optimizing current routers and switches and configuring new ones, implementing firewalls, and designing dependable Border Gateway Protocol configurations.
Progent's management team consists of seasoned professionals with decades of background delivering computer consulting services, technical support, and strategic information system planning to organizations ranging from startups to global enterprises. Great service calls for great people, and Progent has assembled a management team that can provide customers with the top service value available anywhere.
Progent offers expert help for each phase of your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 upgrade with services that include end-to-end project management, site analysis, project planning, specification of all new software and equipment needed, recommended sourcing, system verification at client site or at Progent's testing facility, setting up transitional coexistence between Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Exchange Server 2003 or 2007, deployment of the solution, deactivating the previous system, and training for client's IT group and users.
Progent can assist you to understand the many subscription options available with Microsoft 365, formerly called Office 365, and integrate your information network with Microsoft 365 in a way that delivers top business value. Progent supports multi-vendor networks that incorporate Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also help your business to build and maintain hybrid ecosystems that transparently combine on-premises and cloud resources.
Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains can help you grow and control your company more efficiently by delivering easy access to strategic information and a rapid ROI. Dynamics GP offers important productivity benefits such as its ability to extend the reach of your organization, manage your financials, automate financial processes, standardize processes throughout your company, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, expand revenue and minimize lead-time, and increase cash flow. Progent can help you configure and manage a reliable, safe server and communications foundation to support Great Plains, and can offer experienced Dynamics GP consultants to help you derive the full benefits of your Dynamics GP software.
The Progent Test and Training Lab located at the QTS Data Center can be used for testing mission-critical applications, developing cost-effective system upgrade methodologies, evaluating and optimizing performance, planning or verifying disaster recovery solutions, resolving compatibility issues, and establishing training environments for the latest technologies. For Progent clients without adequate in-house resources to assemble effective pilot systems, Progent's Test and Training Lab reduces capital costs and engineering risk and helps keep critical IT initiatives on schedule.
Progent's Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) consultants have in-depth backgrounds helping small and mid-size organizations to reduce network downtime by providing cost-effective remote consulting for disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, fault-tolerant network design, data backup and restore systems, and transparent maintenance. Progent's business continuity experts can help you to develop and test an efficient business continuity plan that matches your business goals and IT budget. Progent's disaster recovery specialists can help you to architect, deploy, and support resilient technologies such as non-stop Internet connectivity, virtualization, fail-over clustering, load balancing, transparent off-site backup, and geographically dispersed hot backup centers.
Ubiquiti's UniFi family of Wi-Fi infrastructure devices includes indoor and outdoor Wave 2 access points, WiFi 6/6E and WiFi 7 APs, security gateway appliances, managed switches, IP phones, and security cameras. Progent offers the expertise of seasoned wireless professionals who can help you to assess the benefits of UniFi products for your environment and help you to plan, install, manage, and troubleshoot your UniFi ecosystem.
Our Experts Group offers support in key areas that include Macintosh integration and programs; Expertise for Linux-based, UNIX, and Sun Solaris systems; Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM expertise; Mission-critical and specialized application help; CIO, business analyst, and project logistics services; Custom applications development and integration; Web, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and client information portal development and deployment; DBM management and performance consulting; Business intelligence expertise; and Telecommunications systems support.
For businesses with a mix of Apple Mac and Windows computers, there are two popular alternatives for running Microsoft Windows-only software on macOS or OS X: an external connection to an actual Windows PC or local simulation of a Microsoft Windows environment on a macOS or Mac OS X desktop. Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection for Mac allows you to attach an Apple Mac to a networked Windows-based PC to run Microsoft Windows programs and access system resources. Virtual PC for Mac emulates Microsoft Windows on a Mac system so you are able to run Microsoft Windows programs directly. Progent's Mac technology consultants can assist your organization to manage these solutions for running Microsoft Windows software on your Apple Macs and can also assist you to evaluate and configure other solutions for Microsoft Windows platform emulation.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top data security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 delivers powerful, familiar tools to computer experts as well as to network users, lessening the difficulty of designing, integrating, administering, and using company information and analytical applications in environments ranging from mobile devices to corporate data networks. The complexity and integration demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for an IT consultant with real-world expertise and wide knowledge in designing and building information-based, comprehensive business technology applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified engineering staff, with an average of more than 10 years of background involving Microsoft integration, ensures you success in designing, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's team of application experts can provide advanced support, custom development, deployment help, and online training for popular applications covering vital areas including ERP and MRP, general accounting, business analytics, web application development, and the MS Office suite of business productivity software. As a Microsoft Partner with years of experience delivering advanced consulting and troubleshooting services online, Progent can help clients throughout the United States to save the lost productivity and expense associated with travel and on-premises activity without sacrificing the effectiveness of technical support.
Progent's colocation center support services are intended for companies with hardware located at IDCs or data center colocation hosting facilities and requiring timely on-site help at the co-location site plus remote help from Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified experts. Progent offers a full array of IDC and data center and colocation support services including network architecture analysis, Windows and UNIX server integration and support, tech support for server and telecommunications networking, design and deployment of high availability configurations, architecting and implementing layered security structures, firewall configuration and support, configuring load balancing environments, and creating fault tolerant server clustering configurations.
Progent's pricing model is to bill for phone service and on-premises help by the minute. Consequently, you are charged just for delivered support. Progent does not impose a more expensive rate for off-hours or priority support, and within California or in areas where Progent provides on-site support, Progent does not bill for travel time except for emergency calls where on-site time is less than 4 hours. In addition, Progent applies no startup charge and asks no retainer for services provided during regular working hours. Many support firms demand large minimum payments or charge for every quarter hour or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity avoids big invoices for quick fixes so you won't be forced to permit simple problems to fester.
Cisco's Catalyst wireless controllers simplify the management of wireless LANs by unifying the provisioning and management of Wi-Fi APs, optimizing wireless throughput by reducing the effect of radio frequency congestion, improving wireless availability with fast failover, and hardening data security by identifying threats and filtering network traffic according to user type and locale. Progent's Wi-Fi consultants can assist you to configure Cisco wireless LAN controller appliances to manage and monitor wireless LANs of any size. Progent can assist you to administer and troubleshoot your existing Cisco-based Wi-Fi environment or carry out a smooth migration to Cisco's modern wireless controller technology.
Progent can provide onsite training designed for people who wish to broaden their understanding of the macOS and OS X operating system, Apple Mac computers, or Mac office productivity software including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook for Mac. Progent also can provide customized group or one-on-one online classes for macOS and Mac OS X applications.
Progent's Cisco-Certified technology experts provide experienced PIX Firewall support services covering design, integration and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security products. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls offers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector threat protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small businesses and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX firewalls provide a healthy combination of protection, speed and availability for information networks of all sizes. PIX firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system, PIX OS, minimizing potential OS-specific security holes. The Cisco PIX Firewall has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification plus Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls provide multiple integrated security and networking services, including powerful application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and multimedia security, site-to-site and remote-access IPsec VPN networking, intelligent networking services, and extensive management solutions. Progent's network consultants can help you choose and deploy any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls including the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506E, PIX 515 Firewalls, the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 520 Firewall, Cisco PIX 525 Firewalls and the Cisco PIX 535.