Progent provides technical services for medium size businesses with 100 to 250 network clients. The medium size business or work group has traditionally been an overlooked part of the market for IT support expertise. The overhead and support access practices of large third-party service organizations make them excessively costly for the ordinary mid-size business or small medium business (SMB), which commonly has a minimal information technology budget with which to support an IT system whose advanced technology and sophistication are frequently comparable to the information systems of much bigger enterprises. Progent's service delivery model, which takes full advantage of online support, virtual office infrastructure and proactive server monitoring, dramatically reduces the network support expenses of an SMB while offering the mid-size company with big-company service from professional, world-class consultants knowledgeable in a broad range of midsized business network solutions. If your medium size company or small business is looking for levels of network help needed for a mid-size organization without paying big-company costs, call Progent.
Progent can help you in all facets of your upgrade to Exchange Server 2016 such as designing HA infrastructure for a local, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid environment; CAL licensing requirements for Exchange 2016 and Windows Server 2012 R2; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V strategy; determining mass storage requirements for your VMs, mailbox databases and logs; configuring hardware load balancing (HLB) for fault-tolerant CAS services; planning, setting up and validating Exchange Servers and Windows Servers and DAG groups; integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; updating your firewall; creating SSL certs; providing client integration with Office 2010 or greater or Microsoft 365; and configuring Outlook on the web (formerly Outlook Web App).
Progent's private cloud hosting service enables small and midsize organizations to run mission-critical applications such as Microsoft SQL and Exchange from a secure Tier III data center on fully redundant equipment with geographically separate data backup. Progent uses Microsoft's Hyper-V technology for server virtualization and Data Protection Manager for automatic backup and restoration. Smaller organizations can use Progent's private cloud to eliminate major capital costs for the purchase, maintenance, and management of computer hardware and facilities while benefiting world-class levels of system availability and security.
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts, or Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals, are experts who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and extensive experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.
Progent's Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E Access Point experts can provide economical online and on-premises support for Catalyst next-generation Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E wireless APs.
Progent's certified professionals can help you to evaluate the benefits of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop pilot environments and rollout strategies, optimize your network for on-premises, multi-location, cloud-based, and hybrid datacenters, educate your IT management team, develop a corporate-wide security plan, automate IT management, help with application development, and build and test a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Progent has created several security packages designed to deliver larger institutions an objective and comprehensive network security evaluation from a group of certified security consultants. All Progent's network security evaluation packages feature a collection of procedures including automated scans from within and from beyond the corporate firewall, expert analysis of scan results by accredited security consultants, creation of a report documenting the findings, plus a live concise executive summary and an in-depth live review for internal IT engineers.
System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager provides near-continuous backup and easy restore capabilities for Microsoft-based networks. Data Protection Manager 2016 offers application-aware backup for critical platforms like Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint Server, backs up Windows and Linux virtual machines, works with virtual machines hosted by Hyper-V as well as VMware, and can use Microsoft Azure for convenient cloud backup and recovery. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can help organizations of any size to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot a multi-site backup/restore system powered by Data Protection Manager 2016. Progent can assist you to migrate from a previous release of DPM or from an outdated system, and Progent can tune your SCDPM 2016 ecosystem for on premises, colocated, cloud-based or hybrid deployment models. Progent can provide remote or onsite consulting expertise and can deliver occasional guidance to resolve challenging issues or deliver comprehensive project management services to help you finish your Data Protection Manager 2016 deployment on time and within your budget.
For medium-size businesses who need IT support, Progent can deliver a variety of alternatives such as on-site service, remote assistance, phone-based Help Desk, round-the-clock support with remote system monitoring, emergency staffing, business relocation support, software development, and professional consultation. For midsize companies in California or other regions serviced by Progent's field engineers, Progent provides expert on-premises support for solving network issues quickly and affordably.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure consultants have extensive background assisting Internet Service Providers to design, implement, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot high-availability, scalable connectivity solutions suitable for shared public networks.
For large businesses, Progent can leverage internal network support staffs by providing world-class background in supporting critical Microsoft and Cisco products. Progent's certified professionals can provide Enterprise Active Directory help, Exchange Server 2010 support, SharePoint Server expertise, and Microsoft SQL Server consulting. For the national or global enterprise with branch offices, Progent can perform as a transparent local extension of corporate IT management. Progent's enterprise support services include company-wide security, online branch office support, system design, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, project management, and world-class service for multiple location office environments powered by Enterprise Windows 2003. Progent can offer field engineers and specialists to assist with a campus relocation or office move, or a system architect to help with building or using an Internet Data Center or co-location site.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the services and infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.
Progent offers comprehensive help for every phase of your Exchange Server 2010 upgrade with services that include outsourced or co-sourced project management services, site readiness preparation, project planning, specification of all new software and hardware required, recommended vendor sourcing, pilot verification at customer site or at Progent's testing lab, managing temporary coexistence of Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2003 or 2007, deployment of the production system, decommissioning the old servers, and training for client's IT staff and end users.
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants can help organization to set up, manage, update, optimize and troubleshoot Catalyst switches. Progent can also help your business to harden the security and compliance of Catalyst switches and migrate smoothly from outdated switches to current models.
Progent's business climate will make you a better consultant by enhancing your information technology knowledge and boosting the loyalty of your clients. Progent makes good on this promise by recruiting the best consulting talent for you to work with, providing an advanced network and communications infrastructure, running proprietary software utilities to deliver the maximum quality of service, and by streamlining our operational models for finding and retaining clients.
Microsoft Small Business Server is a low-cost collection of server products that offers the basis for a feature-rich but easy-to-manage IT network. The technical sophistication of the Microsoft .NET products bundled with Small Business Server requires a computer consultant with hands-on background planning and building cohesive, comprehensive business network environments. Progent's SBS Server professionals have an average of more than 10 years of experience integrating business networks powered by Microsoft products. This expertise assures you success in deploying, managing, and repairing IT solutions that incorporate the Microsoft Small Business Server package of servers and productivity software.
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Progent's consultants offer remote and on-premises expertise for organizations of all sizes to evaluate the costs/benefits of upgrading to Microsoft Skype for Business from any release of Lync Server or Office Communications Server. Progent can assist you to design a local, cloud-based or mixed topology; interface Skype for Business with Microsoft SQL Server,Exchange, SharePoint Server and Office or Microsoft 365; set up HA solutions; interface Skype for Business with your PBX system and PSTN gateway; and integrate third-party communication systems such as Cisco UC. Progent's certified information security experts can help you design and validate a security environment for your Skype for Business solution that meets government and industry standards.
Citrix has developed a comprehensive family of platforms that deliver enterprise-level manageability, scalability, and performance for virtualizing servers and for centralized delivery of Windows desktops and Windows applications. For delivering virtualized desktops and applications, Citrix offers Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. For creating and administering virtual servers, Citrix has developed Citrix XenServer and Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V. Progent's Citrix-certified engineers can assist your company to evaluate the business advantages of Citrix virtualization products and help you plan, test, deploy, troubleshoot, and support Citrix virtualization platforms.
Progent can help small companies to migrate all or part of their network infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. This can simplify network management and reduce equipment expense. Azure includes a comprehensive library of public cloud services and Progent can assist you to understand the benefits and restrictions of various cloud networking models you can use with Azure. Progent can help you administer cloud-resident or hybrid cloud and local apps and network infrastructure and make sure that you sidestep the common mistakes small organizations make when moving to a public cloud. Progent can help you to set up cloud servers on Azure Virtual Machines, use VHD storage with Azure Storage, handle authentication with Azure Active Directory, and build transparent backup services with Azure Backup. Progent can also assist you to prepare firewalls and IPsec VPN connections and to manage Apple iOS devices and Android handhelds.
Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consultants have extensive backgrounds creating Microsoft-based security solutions for information systems with multiple sites, remote users, and mission-critical web-based applications. A Progent ISA 2004 Firewall consultant is ready to help your small or mid-size business plan and deploy an installation of Microsoft ISA Server 2004 that meets your IT security needs without limiting your productivity.
If you have a small business network with 10 to 50 desktop users, Progent's computer outsourcing services free your company from over-reliance on an individual freelance service provider while giving you affordable and reliable access to high-quality network support. By delivering network support service when you require it, offering advanced knowledge for key technologies, delivering unique services such as 24x7 network monitoring, and billing only for services you use, Progent gives you an economical way for maximizing the profitability of your small office information system. Progent is the smart way for small businesses to build and maintain a reliable and safe IT system and to have quick access to the experienced support typically available only to enterprises who can support a large in-house IT organization.
E-Mail Guard is Progent's affordable antispam and anti-virus service that offers small companies enterprise-quality defense against spam, viruses, DHA attacks, and other varieties of e-mail-based attacks on IT networks. E-Mail Guard is powered by Postini's perimeter management technology, a comprehensive library of web-managed anti-spam and anti-virus services that stop email attacks before they are able to penetrate the network firewall. Perimeter Manager also allows administrators track and manage their e-mail application, irrespective of server vendor, hardware technology, or data center location.
If your business network mixes Linux platforms with Windows, Progent can show you how to incorporate your servers into a cohesive network that permits all your operating systems to run side by side for simple management, seamless dataflow, high reliability, superior performance, and tight protection. Progent's Linux and Microsoft Windows integration support services feature network architecture configuration and support, support for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), remote network monitoring and management, remote network help and troubleshooting, in-person technical support, and Contact Center outsourcing.
Progent delivers the services of Microsoft and Cisco-Certified network support professionals to offer clients economical ways to help businesses optimize the benefits of Microsoft and Cisco products. For networks that range from small offices to large enterprises, Progent's expert consultants can show you how to improve your network's e-mail infrastructure, security, reliability, performance, and IT management.
Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and medium-size businesses to design, deploy, optimize, administer, and debug computer networks that support at-home workers.
Progent provides national remote technical support and troubleshooting services for companies that operate macOS and OS X environments or whose information systems include a combination of Apple Mac and Microsoft technology. Progent's experts can provide Mac users a range of services including desktop assistance, upgrading to the latest edition of macOS from earlier editions of macOS or OS X, plus expertise with Mac applications. Progent can also help you with iPhone and iPad support, or moving to iCloud services. Remote technical support provides optimum leverage for your information technology budget by preserving user efficiency and shortening the time billed for network repair services. Sophisticated online support tools and experienced service specialists and engineers combine to enable Progent to solve most IT issues without squandering time and money by traveling to your site. In the vast majority of cases your network problems can be dealt with by telephone or via a mix of phone help and online access. Progent can put you in touch with Cisco CCIE network experts and CISSP and ISSAP certified security specialists to help with the most difficult network problems.
Microsoft has made a strong effort to enable seamless hybrid networks that combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange systems. This permits you to have certain Exchange mailboxes hosted at your on-premises datacenter and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange consultants can help you with any phase of designing, integrating and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can provide occasional expertise to help you through challenging technical bottlenecks and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange initiative is carried out on schedule and on budget.
Progent's expert support team can help you define and deploy a smooth in-place Exchange Server 2007 upgrade strategy that minimizes productivity downtime, simplifies ongoing support demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. For complex multiple server or multi-location migrations, Progent offers the knowledge and experience to complete your project quickly and economically. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 help, repair, and consulting offerings include expertise with the configuration of outside vendor enhancements of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that are in keeping with your business needs.
System Center 2016 Operations Manager helps to ensure consistent performance and dependable uptime for key workloads by providing centralized, mixed-platform tracking of physical and virtual infrastructure installed throughout local systems and private and public clouds. Progent's consulting team offers advanced online and onsite support to help businesses of all sizes to plan, integrate, tune, enhance and troubleshoot SCOM 2016 deployments. Progent can assist you to migrate to SCOM 2016 from earlier versions of Operations Manager or from other IT infrastructure monitoring platforms, or integrate a variety of monitoring systems into a cohesive IT management solution. Progent can also show you how to extend your Operations Manager 2016 scope to include resources based in public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help businesses of all sizes to evaluate Windows 10 or to upgrade to Windows 10 from an earlier version of Microsoft Windows. Online and on-premises evaluation and migration support for Microsoft Windows 10 offered by Progent's consultants include Return on Investment estimates, project coordination, application and driver compatibility testing, pilot systems, Hyper-V virtualization strategies, Cloud and hybrid solutions, mobile device management, teleworker access, data and identity security, streamlined provisioning and administration, network optimization, wired/wireless convergence, business continuity planning, group and personal training for network management personnel and users, and post-migration consulting support.
Les Kent has a 35-year track record of effective technology integration, corporate management, sales, and operations. He has shown a talent for developing sophisticated IT solutions during his time as as a system architect, programmer, project manager, deployment expert, and problem solver for small businesses, new ventures, and global enterprises.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 20 years of experience providing e-mail and unified email/telephony solutions for companies. Progent offers economical Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server consulting services to strengthen email security and virus defense, provide fault tolerant email, and facilitate remote and mobile email access. Progent's Microsoft Exchange help and support services can assist you in designing and deploying a Microsoft Exchange upgrade or a migration from a legacy SMPT system or outdated Microsoft Email software such as Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.
Progent can help you in any and all facets of your migration to Exchange 2016 including designing high availability (HA) infrastructure for an on-premises, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid environment; licensing compliance for Exchange Server and Windows Server 2012 R2+; moving mailboxes; Hyper-V virtualization strategy; determining mass storage capacity required for your virtual machines, mailbox databases and log files; configuring HLB for fault-tolerant CAS services; designing, building and validating Exchange Servers and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; preparing your firewall; creating SSL certs; providing client integration with Office 2010 or greater or Microsoft 365; and configuring Outlook on the web.
Progent's Microsoft-expert engineers can help you to update your desktops from 32 bits to 64 bits. Progent can assist your company to understand the costs and benefits of upgrading to 64-bit desktop processing, design an efficient migration process that reduces business interruptions, and offer economical, professional online help to assist your organization to configure 64-bit PC desktop operating systems and application software on your current computers.
Progent offers special network security service bundles designed to deliver larger enterprises an independent and comprehensive network security evaluation from a team of premier security engineers. All Progent's security assessment bundles incorporate a collection of procedures like automated scans from inside and from beyond the corporate security perimeter, expert interpretation of scanned data by certified security engineers, production of a report explaining the findings, plus an interactive high-level executive outbrief and an in-depth live outbrief for in-house IT administrators.
Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and medium-size companies to design, implement, tune, administer, and debug IT networks that incorporate at-home workers.
Progent can provide fast and affordable remote access to an authorized Oracle database administration consultant or an Oracle application programmer. Progent offers comprehensive DBA services for all versions of Oracle's RDBMS platform and can also help plan, build, enhance, or troubleshoot Oracle database applications based on SQL and PL/SQL stored procedure programming language. Progent also provides support for Streams replication tools and ASM file/volume manager.
Progent can give you access to programmers who can customize your Microsoft Business Solutions ERP, MRP, and financial system packages to match your unique business needs. Progent's Microsoft consultants offer expertise in Microsoft Microsoft Axapta, Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Navision, Microsoft Solomon, and Microsoft Business Solutions Retail Management Software. Progent also offers expert e-Commerce consulting services for secure, corporate-wide information sharing as well as interfacing with Customer Relationship Management programs.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2019 consultants can help your company to design and implement a cost-effective migration to Windows Server 2019 using your current deployment architecture or a cloud-hosted or hybrid deployment model. Windows Server 2019 delivers significant enhancements in capacity, speed, ease of management, Hyper-V virtualization, cybersecurity, hybrid on-prem plus cloud integration, availability, and container support.
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware.
Progent's seasoned ransomware recovery experts can assist your business to rebuild a network breached by a ransomware crypto-worm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Egregor.
Before Progent's Microsoft Operations Manager solution, network problems were approached reactively, after users were impacted by them. With the help of proactive, computer generated alerts and trend reports created by MOM, Progent can now address network problems before they grow to be serious enough to impact network uptime. Because of Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can resolve looming problems before clients suspect that the problems exist. Progent has background with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to provide small business networks enterprise-class reliability, security and performance.
Progent's Cisco-certified wireless networking experts can provide remote and onsite consulting and support services to assist your organization to design, install, manage, tune, and debug Wi-Fi networks that utilize Cisco's Meraki access points. Progent can also help you to design and implement hybrid networks that integrate on-premises and cloud-based services and that provide seamless connectivity, enhanced security, streamlined management, and consistent performance for all your wired and wireless devices.
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants can help you to set up, manage, upgrade, tune and debug Catalyst switches. Progent can also help you to harden the security and compliance of Catalyst switches and migrate smoothly from legacy appliances to modern devices.
Progent can provide the support of Microsoft-certified consultants as well as seasoned software programmers, DBAs, project managers, network infrastructure engineers, disaster recovery specialists, and certified data security consultants to help you to assess the likely benefits of SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up pilot environments at your site or at Progent's lab, design and execute out an efficient migration to SQL Server 2012 from earlier versions of SQL Server or from other database solutions, and configure a cost-effective and secure network infrastructure that lets you maximize the strategic benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Cisco's Small Business family of access points are Linux-powered units intended as value-priced Wi-Fi APs for small offices. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified Wi-Fi infrastructure experts offer online or on-premises integration and debugging support to help your organization to design, implement, upgrade, optimize, administer and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi access point deployments of any size or topology.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you define and deploy an efficient in-place Microsoft Exchange 2003 migration strategy that minimizes network downtime, reduces ongoing service requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server easy to administer. For complex multiple server or multi-site migrations, Progent offers the experience to complete your move rapidly and affordably. Progent's Exchange 2003 support, troubleshooting, and design services include expertise with the integration of third-party enhancements of Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server that are best aligned to your business needs.
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Progent's Symantec consultants can assist you to support legacy Symantec firewall and Symantec VPN appliances such as the Raptor and VelociRaptor line or help you migrate to newer firewall technology. Progent can also help you create and execute a comprehensive security plan that can include firewall/VPN appliances and utilities, outsourced security and network defense services, server and application monitoring products, and formal policies and processes. Progent has the expertise to be your single resource for on-going network support, maintenance, training, and security consulting.
Progent's company culture will make you a more capable professional by enhancing your information technology skills and boosting the satisfaction of your clients. Progent delivers this commitment by attracting the best professional talent for you to work with, providing a state-of-the-art network and communications infrastructure, running proprietary application tools to enable the highest quality of support, and by optimizing proven operational models for finding and maintaining customers.
Progent's network professionals can assist you to evaluate the possible advantages of Hyper-V-powered server virtualization for your company, conduct pilot installations to validate Hyper-V's compatibility with your line-of-business software, assess your network infrastructure for smooth operation with virtualization technology, help you in upgrading to Windows Server 2008 and configuring Windows Hyper-V, train your network management personnel to monitor and manage Hyper-V, offer expert consulting help for enhancing the protection of your virtual servers, establish and validate disaster recovery procedures that optimize network uptime, and deliver ongoing consulting and maintenance including affordable online repair and comprehensive Help Desk outsourcing.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is a rich, web-aware database and data analysis package that enables the fast development of cutting-edge enterprise-class programs that can give your business a critical competitive edge. SQL Server features core support for XML and the capability to communicate across the Internet and beyond the firewall. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2000 consultants, averaging more than over 10 years of work supporting Microsoft integration, assures you success in planning, deploying and administering Microsoft SQL Server solutions that are well connected with other applications powered Microsoft's .NET platform.
Progent's Wi-Fi site survey services help you to design, implement and debug a Wi-Fi network adapted to your environment, providing you a WLAN that has the coverage, performance, capacity, QoS, data protection, and hand-off ability your company requires. Wireless site survey services from Progent include online predictive analysis for designing a wireless network and onsite survey services for validating, optimizing, and troubleshooting an operational wireless LAN.
Progent's Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) specialists have extensive backgrounds assisting small businesses to reduce system downtime by offering cost-effective online consulting services for disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, fault-tolerant IT architecture, data backup and restore systems, and non-disruptive maintenance. Progent's business continuity consultants can help you to develop and validate an efficient business continuity plan that matches your business goals and budget. Progent's disaster recovery engineers can help you to architect, implement, and maintain resilient technologies such as redundant Internet access, virtualization, fail-over clustering, network load balancing, transparent online backup, and multi-location data centers.
Progent's Cisco certified network infrastructure experts offer advanced support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (formerly CallManager). Progent can help you to integrate VoIP phones, create dial plans, set up SIP trunking and PSTN connections, deploy ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server failover solutions.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your business to maintain Microsoft System Center 2007 Configuration Manager to simplify operations, enhance security and compliance, and boost worker output by making sure that critical applications stay current, managing licensing, and monitoring resource usage patterns to help you make informed purchasing decisions. When your organization is ready to upgrade your SCCM 2007 configuration management ecosystem, Progent can assist you to prepare for and implement an efficient move to SCCM 2012.
Our compensation structure is based on revenue sharing, so similar to working as a freelance consultant, your earnings are entirely driven by your generated revenue. Some of our consultants focus on lifestyle issues and choose to consult at an easy pace, utilizing our self-determined calendar to follow individual enthusiasms like mountain biking, motorcycle racing, snow boarding, surfing, vacations, or sharing private time with family and friends. Others use the chance to earn major bucks through lots of effort and long days. Progent completely supports both ends of the spectrum plus everything in the middle.
Our compensation model is built on revenue sharing, so similar to working as a freelance consultant, your earnings are entirely tied to your generated revenue. Some of our consultants stress quality of life and elect to work at an easy pace, using our self-determined schedule to follow individual pursuits such as mountain biking, motorcycle racing, skiing, surfing, travel, or sharing free time with relatives and acquaintances. Other consultants take advantage of the chance to make big bucks through lots of work and extended hours. Progent fully supports both ends of the spectrum and any point in the middle.
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more performance than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can help you to maintain your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist you to design, integrate, tune, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions built on ASA firewalls with Firepower Services.
Progent's Duo service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices.
Progent's short-term IT staffing services enable businesses to meet the need for network professionals without incurring the expense and delays that come with identifying and hiring experienced technical help and without increasing your full-time head count.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer affordable remote and on-premises expertise, software development, and debugging support for organizations of all sizes who intend to upgrade to SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online from prior releases of SharePoint.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service based on a phone discussion with a Progent backup/recovery expert. The fact-finding interview is designed to evaluate your organization's preparedness either to defend against ransomware or recover rapidly after a ransomware incident. Progent will consult with you directly to collect information about your existing security profile and backup system, and Progent will then produce a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report describing how you can apply industry best practices to create a cost-effective AV and backup/recovery system that minimizes your vulnerability to a ransomware attack and aligns with your business needs.
By using virtual server technology, businesses are able to run many virtual machines on one actual server. Virtualization technology enables companies to enjoy all the advantages of server segmentation, while avoiding the expense associated with buying extra server hardware. Virtual servers are the critical technology for building private clouds, which provide major advantages including reducing the costs of hardware, facilities, and management while enhancing data protection, network availability, and disaster recovery. Other useful server management options include server monitoring software, Windows Server Update Services, and remote server management hardware. Progent's professional server management consultants can help you with all areas of server consolidation and management to allow your company to contain expenses and save time.
Progent can help you to plan and implement a smooth transition from a UNIX-powered IT system to a network powered by Windows and capable of running Microsoft's popular office productivity suites, commercial applications, and software development platforms. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco engineers and software development specialists can show you how to preserve your information and minimize productivity discontinuity by developing an efficient transition strategy that preserves your current assets in UNIX application and technology. UNIX-to-Windows transition support services offered by Progent include analysis of existing infrastructure, transition planning and validation, Exchange migration services, data and application porting, and processor and storage transition and consolidation.
Systems Management Server offers extra capability for change and configuration management of Windows-based networks via introducing Feature Packs. Feature Packs lower the overall administrative costs of managing and deploying software products by making it simpler to copy system images, control mobile devices, and operate management tools. In addition to advising you about ways to cut management costs by installing Microsoft SMS 2003 Feature Packs, Progent's consultants can show you how to plan and perform IT tasks that cover processes that Feature Packs are intended to streamline. Progent's migration and update services can minimize spending and eliminate business disruption as you move to new operating systems and programs. Progent's wireless consulting experts can help you develop efficient processes and policies to manage handheld computers and smart mobile communication devices so your mobile workforce remains efficient and secure. Progent's CISSP-certified consultants and CISM-certified consulting professionals can show you how to develop a security strategy that includes policies, procedures and technologies to keep your IT computer system safe.
Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 builds on the proven security technologies of Microsoft ISA Server and provides a centrally administered Internet gateway that acts as a single-server platform for an array of security features such as an application and network layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, antimalware, IPS, reputation services, VPN management, plus HTTP and HTTPS inspection. Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 provides comprehensive web security logging and reporting capabilities, permits custom reporting powered by SQL Server, works with Active Directory to simplify policy enforcement, and can be deployed as a virtual server to lower costs and improve recoverability. Progent's Microsoft engineers can assist your company to plan and execute pilot and production implementations; interface Forefront TMG 2010 with Windows 2008, AD, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint; install Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 to run on a virtual machine with Windows Hyper-V; and provide continuing consulting and repair services. Progent's consultants can also help your organization to migrate economically to Forefront Threat Management Gateway from ISA Server.
Progent can assist small and medium-size businesses to set up collaborative software to allow their at-home workforce to engage in productive interaction with colleagues and customers.
Progent's UNIX family consulting services provide small companies and developers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent offers your business access to UNIX consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISSP certification. This broad array of experience provides you with a convenient single consulting firm to show you how to create and maintain a secure and robust mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with major versions of UNIX including Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms including RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian-GNU and Slackware.
Progent's Intune consultants can assist your company to assess the business case for adopting Intune for managing your portable devices including laptops, smartphones, and tablets powered by Windows, Apple iOS, and Android. Progent's Intune consultants can help your company to define security and compliance policies, set up pilot environments to confirm the appropriateness of Microsoft Intune for your network, deploy Intune across your enterprise, integrate Intune with System Center Configuration Manager for single-console change management, and provide ongoing support for your Microsoft Intune deployment.
Microsoft Virtual Server, hosted on the Windows Server 2003 platform and powered by software first developed by Connectix, provides the performance necessary to accomplish server consolidation, application migration, and server quarantine projects through virtualization technology in an enterprise-class IT environment with high scalability, manageability, and availability. Microsoft has targeted Virtual Server at businesses who want to improve operational efficiency in application programming and testing, migration from outdated mission-critical applications, and server consolidation. Progent's certified Virtual Server consultants can help your company to evaluate and integrate MS Virtual Server.
For small businesses considering Progent's IT outsourcing, design expertise, or troubleshooting services, call 800-993-9400 or e-mail information@progent.com.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (previously, formerly} branded Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Navision) offers small and midsize businesses a unified platform for financials, inventory, operations, capacity planning, procurement, sales and marketing, supply chain management, and advanced reporting. Progent's Dynamics Business Central/NAV experts can assist you to manage your older Dynamics NAV environment or upgrade efficiently to a cloud-hosted, local, or hybrid deployment model.
Years of background providing Microsoft expertise and Cisco technology consulting has enabled Progent to develop an unmatched ability for serving branch offices that require IT help with the flexibility common to with small organizations but which includes effective client interaction, thorough documentation, and compliance with corporate IT standards. If your corporation maintains a branch office located anywhere in or any region served by Progent's engineers, Progent can provide a broad array of onsite and remote IT consulting services and network design expertise.
Progent's IT outsourcing services offer affordable computer support for small organizations. Whether it includes designing network infrastructure, setting up an in-house Help Desk or outsourcing a one, deploying an updated e-mail system, monitoring your network, or building an on-line eCommerce solution, outsourcing your network technical services can reduce expenses and minimize uncertainties, permitting IT service expenses to increase in a more linear and controlled fashion than is feasible by assembling a large, all-purpose in-house network support organization. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers explain how Progent can help you create a secure and highly available network foundation for your vital business software powered by Microsoft Windows including Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2000.
Progent's certified Office Excel and Office 365 Excel consultants can provide a wide variety of online support services to assist you to plan, develop, pilot test, install, administer, and debug business applications based on any version of Microsoft Excel, including Excel 2016 and Office 365 Excel. Progent can assist you to upgrade your legacy Excel solutions to the latest releases of Excel, integrate Excel with iOS-based iPhones and iPads and Android phones and tablets, and fix compatibility problems between various releases of Office Excel. Progent offers on-demand help to organizations looking for a fast solution to a specific issue related to Excel and Progent can also provide full project management support for upgrading or creating mission-critical applications based on Office Excel. Progent's cost-effective webinar training for Office Excel can be customized to address the special requirements of individual users or teams.
Progent's certified Office Word and Microsoft 365 Word experts can provide a broad selection of economical remote support services to help your organization to manage and troubleshoot your legacy Microsoft Word solution or assist you to upgrade to a current version of Microsoft Office Word. Services offered by Progent's experts include VBA software development, identifying and fixing compatibility problems between various versions of Office Word, interfacing Office Word with other Microsoft Office apps such as Office Excel and Outlook or with third-party data sources and plug-ins,network enhancements for dependable. reliable cloud connectivity, security consulting, smart phone and tablet synchronization, and online training customized for your special requirements.