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Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Migration and Enhancement Consulting Experts
Dynamics GP, previously called Great Plains, sports a longer history than almost any other enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform made for Windows. Microsoft Dynamics GP is a proven, full-featured product and is one of the most widely used ERP platforms for SMBs, with around 50,000 active installations globally. A number of businesses who have relied on Dynamics GP for years or decades have managed to postpone upgrades and maintenance to the point that they now find themselves running seriously out-of-date software and outmoded network infrastructure. This is risky. At the same time, a common complaint we hear from new clients is that they have a hard time locating veteran Microsoft Dynamics GP consultants to partner with for in-depth knowledge about how to update their Dynamics GP environment affordably and get the most benefit from the software.
The longer an organization tries to limp along with legacy releases of Microsoft Dynamics GP, the more challenging the migration procedure tends to be. When physical host servers or disk systems break down, there may be no equivalent devices available to use as substitutes. When editions of Windows Server used to host Dynamics GP arrive at end-of-support (EOS) status, vital security updates stop being developed. Current editions of Microsoft SQL Server might not be compatible with your special GP customizations. Next-generation products such as Power BI may not run. Organizations considering an upgrade of their Microsoft Dynamics GP deployment can be overwhelmed by the number of pieces there are to the project. And the price tag suggested for an upgrade may seem astronomical.
Microsoft Dynamics GP Migration and Customization Services Available from Progent
Progent has offered support for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Great Plains for over two decades, and Progent's tested experts have provided advanced and affordable online consulting for Windows-based networks to organizations in every state across the U.S. By offering deep experience with all versions of Dynamics GP along with world-class system integration skills, Progent is ideally suited to make sure your Minneapolis, Minnesota business optimize the benefit of GP/Great Plains.
We become partners with our customers and begin by listening to their requirements. After gaining familiarity with the IT environment and the areas for improvement we provide our recommendations. Recommendations may involve a migration to a more current and supported version of Dynamics GP, simple user training, complete system and individual module implementation including 3rd-party modules offered by a broad array of suppliers that have published add-ons to Microsoft Dynamics GP, custom integrations with other key business applications used by company, custom report writing, and solution evaluations to determine whether GP is being used to its fullest. Our objective with every Dynamics GP project of whatever size is to maximize strategic value and control cost.
Progent's consultants can help your Minneapolis, Minnesota company in every facet of your Microsoft Dynamics GP migration or customization initiative including:
- Deployment Review
Take a look at what features of Dynamics GP you are now using and propose other capabilities of GP that may be helpful to your business. - Migration Planning and Scheduling
Create a complete upgrade plan and timetable that avoids business interruption. Schedule pilot testing, production upgrade, and training. Identify customizations and add-on modules. Anticipate and manage compatibility issues. - Pilot Testing
Plan and configure a pilot environment for validating the migration project. - Environment Upgrades
Back up databases and dictionaries, eConnect, and GP Integration Manager database. eMigrate Dynamics GP to the current version to ensure ongoing support from Microsoft and to have all current features available to your organization. Update SQL Server and compatibility levels for all databases. Implement services from the Professional Services Tools Library (pstl). Condition data and run scripts to resolve known issues. - Management Reporting
Create reports and or dashboards for internal as well as external consumption. Configure SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and combine Microsoft Dynamics GP with Microsoft Power BI for self-service reporting and for combining data from diverse local and external sources. - Education
Deliver one-on-one or group training for existing and new users of Dynamics GP. - Support
Provide a single contact for expertise to ensure consistent and cost-effective resolution of issues thanks to familiarity with your particular environment.
Progent can provide the support of top-tier experts who have been developing working Microsoft Dynamics GP and Great Plains environments since version 1. Progent has the skills to do the work you need directly instead of managing less experienced consultants or in-house staff. Key areas where Progent's consultants can deliver Microsoft Dynamics GP support services include:
- Recommendations
Suggest the deployment of software modules included with the core GP system but are not now being utilized. In addition, recommend third-party add-ons designed exclusively for Microsoft Dynamics GP to provide capabilities that GP doesn't offer. - Integrations
Create custom integrations between Microsoft Dynamics GP and other business applications to reduce duplicate data entry and increase consistency. - Customizations
Create big and small customizations that run with Dynamics GP to perform specific business functions that are not addressed by out-of-the-box GP modules or external add-ons.
Progent can help your business to upgrade your infrastructure to support Microsoft Dynamics GP for any deployment model including on-premises, cloud-based, or a hybrid environment. Infrastructure services provided by Progent's consultants include:
- Requirements assessment and site inventory
- Network architecture planning and implementation (on-premises, private or public cloud, or hybrid)
- Configuring security gateways and remote connections and creating security policies
- Managing Apple iOS, Android, and Windows mobile devices
- Creating high-availability (HA) environments
- Integration with public cloud services including Office 365
- Disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness
- Performance tuning
A modern Dynamics GP ecosystem incorporates diverse application platforms, local network infrastructure resources, and cloud products combined into a cohesive enterprise resource planning solution. For over 20 years, Progent's consultants have provided online and onsite help from Microsoft-certified experts including Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains consultants, Windows Server consultants, SQL Server developers, Exchange Server configuration experts, Microsoft Office consultants, and SharePoint development experts. Progent has worked with these products from their initial releases to their latest editions, and Progent supports cloud SaaS options by providing Office 365 consulting, Exchange Online support, and SharePoint Online migration and application development services.
Progent also has a long history of providing help from seasoned Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure consultants, Hyper-V integration experts, and VMware virtual machine consultants. This background with strategic technologies cuts time and costs when guiding organizations through every aspect of upgrading their legacy Microsoft Dynamics GP environment. Progent also can provide the skills of senior security and information assurance engineers, disaster recovery and business continuity planning consultants, application developers, hybrid cloud architecture experts, and database administrators who can help you to design, deploy, and manage a modern Microsoft Dynamics GP solution.
Progent's Consulting Expertise for Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions
To find out more about Progent's remote and on-premises consulting expertise in Minneapolis, Minnesota for Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP software, see:
- Dynamics GP Support Services
- Dynamics GP 2015 Consulting Services
- MS Dynamics GP/Great Plains Program Features
- MS Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP Benefits
- Expert Help with MS Dynamics GP Reporting
- MS Dynamics GP Custom Software Programming
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High Availability Data Center Online Technical Support
High-Availability Data Center Technical Support
Progent's Data Center engineers can help you find fault-tolerant data centers that match the specific needs of your business. Fault tolerant Internet Data Centers are particularly appealing to small businesses due to of their affordability and convenience compared to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Attempting to design an in-house data center that offers even a basic degree of fault tolerance is too costly for most small companies. Progent is ready to help you get all the advantages of high availability data centers and fault tolerant colo sites by offering a full array of consulting and support services.
24-Hour CCNP Certified Aironet Outdoor APs Online Help
Network Consulting Aironet Wave 2 Wi-Fi AP
Progent's Cisco CCIE Wi-Fi infrastructure consultants offer online or on-premises configuration and troubleshooting support to assist your organization to plan, configure, update, optimize, manage and debug Aironet wireless access point deployments of any size or topology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can also help you to combine your Wi-Fi ecosystem with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-hosted resources to create a seamless enterprise connectivity solution that is easy to manage and scale. Progent also offers affordable wireless site surveys to assist you to decide the most efficient selection, location and configuration of Aironet wireless APs to accommodate your specific office layout, construction, and anticipated network traffic.
Email Link Protection Consultants
Email Virus Fingerprint Consultants
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the technology of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall.
Ubiquiti UniFi AP Consultancy
Ubiquiti UniFi Controller management Consult
Ubiquiti's UniFi line of Wi-Fi network appliances includes a wide selection of Wave 2 Wi-Fi access points, security gateways, and switches. Ubiquiti UniFi devices installed across multiple sites with any number of APs can be remotely provisioned and administered with free UniFi Controller software, which centralizes and streamlines deployment, discovery, administration, optimization, troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting. Progent offers the skills of veteran wireless professionals who can help your organization to determine the value of UniFi technology for your environment and assist you to design, install, manage, and troubleshoot your UniFi solution.
Microsoft Firewall Professional
ISA 2004 Standard Edition Server Consultants
Progent’s Microsoft certified professionals provide small and medium sized companies expertise for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Servers. Microsoft's Forefront TMG and ISA Servers contain an advanced application-layer aware firewall that can secure your IT system from attack by outside and inside threats. Forefront TMG and ISA Server perform thorough inspection of Internet protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which enables these products to detect many threats that can get by traditional firewalls. The integrated firewall and VPN structure of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Server permit stateful filtering and monitoring of all VPN traffic. ISA Servers are the mainstay of Microsoft's system security initiative, and Progent's Microsoft-certified experts and CISSP, CISA and CISM certified security professionals can help you strengthen your network protection through expert design and deployment of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Servers. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your company to install Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010, manage and troubleshoot all versions of ISA Server, or migrate smoothly from ISA Server environments to Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway.
24x7 Microsoft SQL Consulting Services
Microsoft SQL Server Support and Integration
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is a complete, web-aware database and data analysis solution that opens the door to the fast creation of cutting-edge high-end programs that can provide your company a critical competitive edge. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 provides core support for XML and the ability to communicate across the Internet and outside the firewall. The experience of Progent's certified SQL Server 2000 engineers, with an average of more than over 10 years of work supporting Microsoft integration, ensures you success in planning, deploying and supporting Microsoft SQL Server applications that are well connected with other applications based on Microsoft's .NET environment.
Cybersecurity Consultancy Check Point NGTP Security Services
Check Point 5000 Firewalls Security Consulting
Progent's Check Point Software experts can show you how to select and deploy Check Point Software Firewall and VPN utilities and hardware based on Check Point Software's security platform to provide an affordable and efficient security solution for your business network. Progent can also help you integrate other Check Point technologies such as Check Point ZoneAlarm and Check Point Series 80 appliances with security products from other vendors and provide a single source for continuing network support, maintenance, education, and consulting services.
WannaCry Ransomware Defense Technology Professional
Ransomware Defense Consultants
Progent offers consulting for security auditing products such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer for performing a set of automatic system auditing scans to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive knowledge of network auditing tools and can help you to make sense of audit reports and react appropriately. Progent can help you design security into your business operations, configure scanning tools, plan and deploy a protected network architecture, and suggest procedures to optimize the security of your network. Progent's security consultants are available to show you how to configure a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and integrate VPN. Progent's qualified security engineers can also test the protection of web applications and can provide comprehensive information security audits of enterprise-wide security to validate your organization's compliance with key international security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO.
Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 Upgrade Consult
Specialists Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Migration
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide affordable online and on-premises support to implement your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, produce extensive documentation of your new messaging environment, train your network support team and users to get them ramped up quickly on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and provide continuing administrative services and technical help. Progent's consultants can also assist you to migrate from Exchange 2010 to Exchange Server 2013 or Exchange Server 2016.
ProSight VM Hosting Engineers
Private Cloud Hosting for Virtual Data Centers Consultancy
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service combines proven virtual server architecture, a state-of-the-art data center facility, and the technical support services of Progent's Microsoft-certified engineering team to provide small and midsize businesses with a complete IT outsourcing alternative that improves network dependability and security, eliminates management hassle, and saves money. With Private Cloud Hosting, a small or midsize business can have all of its operating system platforms and key application servers hosted in a secure and fault tolerant facility on a fast, non-stop virtual machine set up and supported by Progent's network support experts.
Cisco CCIE Online Technical Consulting
Support Outsourcing Services Cisco Access Point
Progent's Cisco certified network infrastructure experts have extensive experience assisting Internet Service Providers to architect, implement, manage, tune, and troubleshoot high-availability, scalable connectivity environments suitable for public networks.
Virtual Server 2005 Consulting Services
24/7 Online Support Microsoft Virtual Machines
Microsoft Virtual Server, hosted on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and based on technology originally produced by Connectix, provides the performance necessary to carry out hardware reduction, application upgrade, and server isolation projects via virtualization techniques in an enterprise-ready IT network with advanced expandability, manageability, and fault tolerance. Microsoft has targeted Virtual Server at businesses who want to improve operational efficiency in software development and piloting, migration from outdated line-of-business software, and server consolidation. Progent's certified Virtual Server experts can assist your business to evaluate and deploy MS Virtual Server 2005.
vSphere Data Protection, Specialist
Backup Exec Specialists
Progent can provide affordable remote support from IT engineers skilled in a wide range of utilities and technologies that provide solutions for backing up Windows, Mac, and Linux physical and virtual servers and workstations as well as laptops and smartphones. Progent can provide help for all major backup platforms such as Acronis, Barracuda Backup, Altaro VM Backup, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take, MozyPro, Retrospect for Macintosh, Apple Time Machine, VMware Data Recovery (VDR), and Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can assist your company to install, enhance, or troubleshoot backup/restore systems for a variety of environments such as local, edge to datacenter, cloud, or hybrid.
Desktop Technology Online Support
Emergency Microsoft and Apple Mac Desktop Computer Network Support Group
Progent can deliver a variety of low-cost online and onsite support services to help your business to configure, manage, and troubleshoot desktops and mobile devices based on Microsoft Windows, macOS/OS X, Apple iOS, Android, or Linux.
Juniper SRX210 Router Firewall Support
Juniper SRX Firewall Security Consultant
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 ASA 5550 Firewall Troubleshooting
Professionals ASA 5520 Firewall
Progent's CCIE-certified networking consultants can help you to maintain older PIX 500 or ASA 5500 firewalls or transition to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls. Progent can also assist you to configure, manage, upgrade and troubleshoot Cisco ASA 5500-X security appliances with Firepower Services.
Email Virus Signature Consulting
24 Hour ProSight Email Content Filtering Consult
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.
Integration Services Server Monitoring
Remote Monitoring and Reporting Online Consulting
Remote continuous monitoring, proactive alarms, and actionable reports are vital to maintaining the health of your network and eliminating unnecessary and expensive downtime. Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology has progressed so far that businesses of all sizes can get a level of protection that was previously reserved for enterprises. Progent can provide several RMM solutions delivered as economical service packages designed to assist you to detect and fix a most network problems before they can disrupt your business.
Consultancy Exchange 2010 Migration
Exchange Upgrade Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting engineers can assist you to assess the value of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 for your business and can assist your IT staff to design and carry out a smooth migration to Exchange Server 2010 from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2007 Server that will provide quick ROI by improving your workers' efficiency, lowering the cost of hardware and service, simplifying administration, and integrating your vital communications platforms.
Top Microsoft Expert Professional ISA 2006
Urgent Microsoft ISA Server 2006 Computer Consultant
ISA 2006 is a multi-functional gateway that provides a powerful application layer firewall, VPN, proxy, and Web caching platform for safeguarding the Internet-facing networks of any organization against a wide range of attacks. Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server experts can help you design, rationalize, test, install, configure and support the Standard or Enterprise edition of ISA Server 2006 on your network.
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Wyoming Service Provider
Progent’s Technical Response Center provides low-cost national after-hours online support for networks based on Windows and Cisco technology. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service experts provide extended hours phone help and remote secure network access to isolate and repair technical problems quickly and affordably.
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