Baltimore Microsoft Premier Consulting Partner
Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Upgrade and Enhancement Consulting
Dynamics GP, previously branded Great Plains, has a lengthier history than almost any other enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution written for Windows. Dynamics GP is a proven, feature-rich product and is one of the most popular ERP platforms for SMBs, with about 50,000 active customers globally. A number of organizations who have relied on Dynamics GP for years have managed to defer upgrades and maintenance to the point that they now find themselves using seriously out-of-date software and rickety IT infrastructure. This is dangerous. At the same time, a recurring complaint we hear from prospective customers is that they have trouble finding veteran Dynamics GP consultants who can provide guidance on how to update their Dynamics GP environment efficiently and derive the maximum business value from the software.
The more an organization attempts to limp along with outdated releases of Dynamics GP, the more challenging the upgrade process tends to be. When server hardware or storage systems fail, there could be no suitable hardware available to use as substitutes. When releases of Microsoft Windows Server used to host Dynamics GP reach end-of-support (EOS) status, vital security patches stop being developed. The latest editions of Microsoft SQL Server might not be compatible with your special GP customizations. Innovative products like Microsoft's Power BI may not be an option. Businesses investigating an upgrade of their Dynamics GP deployment can be intimidated by the volume of pieces there are to the project. And the price tag quoted for a migration may be through the roof.
Dynamics GP Upgrade and Customization Services Offered by Progent
Progent has offered support for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Great Plains for more than 20 years, and Progent's seasoned professionals have delivered high-level and economical remote consulting for Windows-powered networks to businesses in every state in the U.S. By combining in-depth familiarity with all versions of Dynamics GP along with top-tier network integration skills, Progent is uniquely qualified to make sure your Baltimore, Maryland business optimize the benefit of GP.
We partner with our clients and begin by understanding their needs. After gaining an understanding of the environment and the areas needing improvement we make our recommendations. Proposed services may involve an upgrade to a newer and supported release of Microsoft Dynamics GP, simple user education, complete platform and individual module implementation including 3rd-party modules offered by a broad array of suppliers that have published add-ons to Dynamics GP, integration with other critical business software used by company, custom report writing, and solution evaluations to determine whether GP is being utilized to its fullest. Our objective with every Microsoft Dynamics GP project of whatever size is to optimize strategic value and manage cost.
Progent's consultants can assist your Baltimore, Maryland business in every phase of your Microsoft Dynamics GP upgrade or customization process including:
- Deployment Assessment
Review at what modules and features of Dynamics GP you are now running and propose additional capabilities available on GP that might be suitable for your business. - Migration Design and Timing
Develop a comprehensive migration plan and schedule that minimizes business disruption. Plan for pilot testing, production upgrade, and education. Specify custom development and add-on modules. Anticipate and manage integration issues. - Testing
Design and implement a pilot system for validating the migration project. - Environment Updates
Create backup copies of databases and dictionaries, eConnect, and GP Integration Manager data. eMigrate Microsoft Dynamics GP to the latest version to assure ongoing support from Microsoft and to make all the latest features available to your business. Upgrade SQL Server and compatibility levels for all associated databases. Implement services from the GP Professional Services Tools Library (pstl). Prepare data and run scripts to address known issues. - Custom Reporting
Develop reports and or dashboards for internal as well as external consumption. Deploy SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and combine Dynamics GP with Microsoft Power BI for on-demand reporting and for aggregating information from multiple on-premises and external repositories. - Education
Provide individual or group training for current and first-time users of Microsoft Dynamics GP. - Support
Act as a single point of contact for support to ensure dependable and affordable handling of problems made possible by close understanding of your particular situation.
Progent can provide the support of seasoned experts who have been developing working Dynamics GP and Great Plains environments since relerase 1. Progent has the skills to do the work you need directly instead of supervising less knowledgeable consultants or internal staff. Important areas where Progent can deliver Dynamics GP expertise include:
- Guidance
Recommend the deployment of modules included with the basic GP platform but are not currently being utilized. In addition, suggest third-party add-ons designed exclusively for Dynamics GP to deliver capabilities that GP skips. - Integrations
Create special connections between Microsoft Dynamics GP and other strategic platforms to avoid duplicate data entry and improve accuracy. - Customizations
Create major and small customizations that run with Dynamics GP to perform specific business functions not addressed by out-of-the-box GP modules or external add-ons.
Progent can help you to upgrade your network infrastructure to accommodate Microsoft Dynamics GP for any architecture including local, cloud-based, or a hybrid network model. Network infrastructure expertise available from Progent include:
- Requirements assessment and site inventory
- Network architecture planning and implementation (local, private or public cloud, or hybrid)
- Configuring security gateways and remote connections and creating security policies
- Integrating Apple iOS, Google Android, and Windows smartphones and tablets
- Creating high-availability solutions
- Integration with public cloud services including Microsoft 365
- Disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness
- Performance optimization
An optimized Microsoft Dynamics GP environment incorporates multiple software platforms, local network infrastructure resources, and public cloud products integrated into a seamless ERP solution. For over two decades, Progent's consultants have provided online and onsite support from Microsoft-certified experts including Dynamics GP/Great Plains integrators, Windows Server consultants, SQL Server consultants, Microsoft Exchange integration experts, Microsoft Office consultants, and SharePoint Server integration consultants. Progent's consultants have worked with these products from their initial releases to their current editions, and Progent can help with cloud options by offering Office and Microsoft 365 consulting, Exchange Online support, and SharePoint Online deployment and development expertise.
Progent also has extensive experience providing support from seasoned Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure experts, Windows Hyper-V integration experts, and VMware virtual machine consultants. This background with strategic IT platforms saves time and costs when helping organizations through each phase of upgrading their older Dynamics GP environment. Progent also offers the skills of senior security and information assurance experts, disaster recovery planning consultants, application programmers, hybrid cloud integration consultants, and SQL Server DBAs who can help you to design, implement, and manage a well-tuned Dynamics GP ecosystem.
Progent's Support Expertise for Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP Solutions
To find out more information about Progent's remote and onsite consulting services in Baltimore, Maryland for Dynamics GP/Great Plains Enterprise Resource Planning product family, visit:
- MS Dynamics GP Consulting
- Dynamics GP 2015 Support Services
- MS Dynamics GP/Great Plains Program Features
- Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP Benefits
- Expertise with Dynamics GP Reporting
- Dynamics GP Custom Software Programming
To download a datasheet describing the consulting expertise available from Progent for Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP software, click
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Juniper Junos Management Security Tech Services
Juniper Junos Intrusion Detection
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you utilize Junos OS and the Junos platform of network management applications to configure, administer, and monitor Junos-powered devices; migrate to the Junos OS operating system from other Juniper software platforms such as ScreenOS; and upgrade your Juniper routers, switches, and gateways to the latest version of Junos OS.
Support SCCM Patch Management
SCCM Boundary Groups Technical Support
Configuration Manager automates software deployment across multiple sites, centralizes security and compliance settings management, keeps track of network resources, protects against company data leakage, provides health monitoring, enables safe end-user self service, and offers a single control mechanism for managing mixed-operating system networks based on on-prem, cloud, or hybrid deployment models. Progent's Microsoft-certified Configuration Manager consultants and Microsoft Azure cloud integration specialists can assist your organization with any facet of planning, implementing, using and troubleshooting a System Center Configuration Manager solution for on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid networks.
Skype for Business Reverse Proxy Server Consultant
Expert Microsoft Certified Skype for Business certificate management Specialists
Lync 2010 provides IM, Presence, voice/video conferencing, desktop sharing, and both VoIP and public switched telephone network (PSTN) voice communication. Microsoft Lync 2010 can enhance the capability of Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Office desktop or Microsoft 365 and streamlines administration via integration with Active Directory. Lync can also reduce capital and operational costs by eliminating Voice-over-IP hardware and subscription services, PBX gear, or conventional teleconferencing technology. Progent's Microsoft-certified unified communications experts can provide online and on-premises support services to assist your company to manage and repair your current Lync 2010 deployment or evaluate the benefits of migrating from Lync Server 2010 to Skype for Business, which is Microsoft's new version of the product. Progent can also help you to design and execute an efficient Skype for Business upgrade or a migration to Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Upgrade Specialist
Exchange Migration Professionals
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can deliver affordable online and on-premises help to carry out your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010, produce thorough documentation of your upgraded email environment, educate your network support team and users to get them ramped up quickly on Exchange 2010, and provide continuing management services and engineering support. Progent's consultants can also assist you to migrate from Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 or Exchange Server 2016.
Gentoo Linux Support and Integration
Open Now Mandrake Linux Consultant
If your company is producing Linux-based software in an environment that has Windows-based processors, PCs, and office productivity products, Progent can provide comprehensive network support outsourcing that frees you to concentrate on your area of strategic expertise while avoiding the constant hassle of managing your business network. By using smart network monitoring and by providing online and on-site support when your business needs it, Progent represents an economical solution for maintaining an IT system that features high dependability, security, and performance. Progent's UNIX/Linux developer support offerings feature full-service information technology outsourcing, virtual server infrastructure, online and in-person support and repair, 24x7 monitoring services, and Help Desk services.
CRISC Certified Risk and Information Systems Control Auditor Consultants
CRISC Risk and Information Systems Control Consulting
Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified risk management expert to help your company to design and implement an enterprise risk management (ERM) solution following best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines.
Security Audit Consultant Services
Specialist CISA Certified Security Audit
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive test given by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier Cybersecurity audit consultant able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protection of data assets, and business continuity preparedness.
ProSight Automatic Patch Management IT Consultants
Automated Server Monitoring Consulting
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop monitoring managed service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management technology to help keep your network running at peak levels by checking the state of critical assets that drive your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alarm is sent automatically to your designated IT management staff and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so any looming issues can be resolved before they have a chance to disrupt your business.
Cisco VoIP Phones and Contact Center Support
Cisco VoIP Phones and Cisco Unity Integration Support
Progent's CCIE-certified networking experts offer advanced support services for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) (previously CallManager). Progent can help you to integrate VoIP phones, design dial plans, configure SIP trunking and PSTN support, deploy Cisco ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and design UCS server high availability systems.
NetApp MetroCluster Disk Pools Engineers
24 Hour Specialists NetApp SAN Fabric
Progent offers enterprise clients the services of a certified NetApp consultant to deliver online or onsite expertise for NetApp's entire portfolio of SAN storage software and hardware products including Data ONTAP and Clustered Data ONTAP (CDOT) data management, MetroCluster, FlexPod cloud infrastructure, SnapMirror, SnapVauly continuous D2D backup, Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for VMware, MultiStore for storage partitioning, OnCommand Reporting and Insight analytics, and NetApp's FAS, AFF, V-Series and N-Series storage products. Components of NetApp SAN storage technology supported by Progent include system dsign, cloud deployment, virtualization, migrations, non-disruptive updates, system management, information assurance, disaster recovery, and troubleshooting. Progent offers Level 3 support to help you to take care of issues with NetApp SAN environments quickly and affordably following best practices.
After Hours Network Consultants SMS Server 2003 Upgrade
SMS Server Migration Outsourcing
Progent's certified consultants provide small and medium size businesses enterprise-grade consulting support for Systems Management Server and System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft's standard tools for change and deployment management. Configuration Manager is Microsoft's new title for the update management solution previously called SMS Server. Configuration Manager provides a range of new features to SMS Server including comprehensive automation, integrated Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2008 awareness, quarantine support, and boot image management. Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can help you use SMS Server or System Center Configuration Manager effectively for automated OS and application software installation, security patch administration, software tracking, and software license compliance. Progent's consultants can also help you to move smoothly from Systems Management Server to System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
Specialists Lync Server 2013 IM
Professionals Lync Server 2013 video conferencing
Progent's consultants can assist your company to assess the value of Lync Server for your business and can help you to plan and execute a rollout of Lync Server 2010 that unifies the management of Instant Messaging and Presence and improves the output of your office staff, telecommuters, and mobile workforce. Progent can also help you to carry out an efficient migration to Lync Server from Microsoft Office Communications Server or Live Communications Server, interface Microsoft Lync Server 2010 with Exchange, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server, show you how you can use Microsoft Lync Server to improve the collaborative functions of MS Office programs, and offer online seminars and continuing support for Lync Server 2010 and other Microsoft products.
NodeZero Certified Threat Assessment Technology Consulting
NodeZero Certified Security Penetration Testing Cybersecurity Consultancy
Progent's certified security experts can perform NodeZero-based threat assessments to make sure your security defense tools and policies are correctly set up and effective.
24-Hour Network Consultants Microsoft Financial Software
Computer Engineer Dynamics GP/Great Plains
Key characteristics of Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains accounting include a modular design that allows you to license just the components you need, a standardized architecture built on Microsoft technologies to secure your investment and provide a highly integrated environment, enhanced reporting services that allow you to track all activities, income and expenses and sales patterns, integration with Microsoft Office to speed access to business information, the capability to integrate information from almost any db software or desktop software into Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains, and an open architecture that makes it possible to develop custom programs. Progent can help you set up and maintain a reliable, secure server and communications infrastructure to support Microsoft Dynamics GP, and can provide experienced GP consultants to show you how to turn the powerful features of Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains business accounting software into a high-value business solution.
Microsoft Project Server Reporting Consult
24-Hour Consulting Services Microsoft Project Server 2010
Progent's Microsoft engineers offer advanced expertise in implementing, operating and troubleshooting any edition of Project Server and can provide a wide range of affordable remote support services following industry best practices to help organizations of all sizes to get all the advantages of this leading platform. Support services offered by Progent include system planning, software configuration and migration, strategies for secure collaboration among onsite and offsite users, network infrastructure optimization, and specialized webinar training classes.
Security Auditor Cisco ASA Firewalls
GIAC Certified Cybersecurity Firms
For smaller companies, network security and regulatory compliance can be excessively complicated to master but too dangerous to ignore. The largest biggest enterprises have been breached, and the leading cloud service providers have on occasion been taken down. It seems as though there's nowhere to hide. Progent makes it affordable for smaller organizations to carry out critical IT security tasks successfully by offering the advantage of billable time to the closest minute with no minimum billing for remote help. This means you have access to a world-class computer consultant to deliver precisely the help you need whenever you need it. Progent's CISA, CISM, GIAC, CISSP and ISSAP premier security experts can assist your business with any level of network security including vulnerability assessments, virus screening and recovery, spam and email content filtering, email data loss protection, compliance reporting, and creating a complete security strategy.
Expert Development Excel
Part-time CIO IT Outsourcing
Progent's application experts offer advanced consulting, custom development, deployment help, and webinar training for popular applications covering key areas including ERP, general accounting, management reporting, web commerce application design, and the MS Office suite of business productivity solutions. As a Microsoft Partner with years of experience delivering advanced consulting support online, Progent can assist clients throughout the U.S. to save the time and fees related to travel and on-premises activity without compromising the effectiveness of technical support.
Juniper Junos BGT Security Evaluation
Juniper Junos BGT Security Contractors
Progent's Juniper Networks-authorized network consultants can assist your company to design and implement Juniper Firewall and VPN technology, enhance and troubleshoot your network infrastructure, and upgrade efficiently from discontinued equipment to the latest versions. Progent's Junos OS consultants can offer support for Juniper's flagship network control software to enable your business to simplify the administration and strengthen the security of your Juniper VPN appliances and firewalls. Progent also has broad experience supporting Juniper's NetScreen OS and ScreenOS operating system platforms and can assist you maintain networks that include a mix of Juniper's OS platforms.
Remote Consulting Remote Wireless Site Survey
WLAN Site Survey Integration Support
Progent's wireless site survey and predictive modeling make it easy to plan, implement and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi network optimized for your environment, providing you a wireless solution that delivers the coverage, speed, capacity, Quality of Service, data protection, and hand-off ability your company needs. Wi-Fi survey services from Progent include online predictive modeling for designing a Wi-Fi LAN and onsite survey services for validating, tuning, and debugging a functioning wireless LAN.
Exchange Server 2003 Upgrade Support
Exchange 2003 Upgrade Online Troubleshooting
Progent's Microsoft Certified engineers offer world-class consulting for major implementations of Microsoft Exchange Server. Progent's consultants can show you how to prepare for multi-location Exchange installations or upgrades and can supply local personnel to help enterprises with installations of Microsoft Exchange in the or any area served by Progent's engineers.
Dynamics 365 Business Central Application Consultant
Dynamics 365 NAV Consultants
Progent can provide remote and onsite installation, migration, customization, reporting for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central/Navision.
Part-Time CIO Network Consultants
Computer Engineer Chief Information Officer
Progent offers the part-time assistance of a veteran CIO who can offer a broad perspective to assist your company select and maintain network solutions appropriate for your current needs and that can serve as a solid foundation for your future growth. Progent's part-time Chief Information Officer services offer economic leverage to companies trying to maximize the impact of their network expenditures but who are unable or hesitant to add another executive-level manager to their full-time staff. Because Progent is vendor-neutral, with a large staff of engineers certified to maintain all major operating systems and networking technologies plus a broad selection and application software, Progent is in an ideal situation to provide objective recommendations along with advanced technical help for developing IT solutions that fit the particular requirements of your organization.
Microsoft Firewall Technical Consultant
ISA 2000 Server Technology Consulting
Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have extensive backgrounds configuring Microsoft ISA Server-based security solutions for information systems with many sites, mobile users, and mission-critical web applications. Progent's ISA Firewall experts can help your small business in planning and deploying a configuration of ISA Server 2000 or ISA 2004 Server that supports your network protection needs without adversely restricting your network productivity. Progent's consulting professionals can help you migrate from Microsoft Proxy Server from ISA 2000 Server to Microsoft ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
IT Consulting MSP360 B2 Backup Storage
MSP360 VM Backup Network Consultants
Progent can help you to create, deploy and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on MSP360 software. MSP360 enables file/folder or image-based backup/restore for virtual machines and physical computers, supports all popular public clouds, and allows businesses to build a data protection solution with a low Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With ProSight DPS 360 Backup, Progent offers end-to-end monitoring and management of your backup system to prevent data loss caused by user mistakes, computer glitches, malicious insiders, and malware assaults such as ransomware.
Engineer ProSight Email Content Filtering Service
ProSight Email Content Filtering Service Professionals
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of top information security companies to provide centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.
Catalyst Ethernet Switch Computer Consultants
Catalyst Switch IOS Support and Help
With Catalyst switches for small and medium-sized businesses, Cisco allows companies to realize all the advantages of bringing intelligent services into their networks. Cisco's switching technology makes it possible to enable features that make your IT network highly available to handle time-critical needs, scalable to facilitate growth, safe enough to protect restricted information, and designed for differentiating and controlling traffic flows to streamline network performance. Progent's Cisco certified consultants can show you how to pick out and deploy Cisco switches that make sense for your company. Also, Progent's CISM and CISSP certified security consultants can show you how to create a strategic security policy and configure Cisco switches so they help support your security policies. Cisco Catalyst switches that Progent provides expertise for include Cisco's Catalyst 2960 switches, Catalyst 3750 switches, Cisco Catalyst 4948 switches, and Catalyst 6500 Series Switches.
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