Waltham Microsoft Premier Consultants
Dynamics GP (Great Plains) Upgrade and Customization Consultants
Microsoft Dynamics GP, originally branded Great Plains, sports a longer heritage than virtually any other ERP platform written for the Windows OS. Dynamics GP is a proven, feature-rich product and is one of the most widely used ERP platforms for SMBs, with around 50,000 active customers worldwide. A number of businesses who have depended on Dynamics GP for years have managed to defer upgrades and maintenance long enough that they are now running seriously out-of-date software and rickety network infrastructure. This is dangerous. At the same time, a recurring complaint we hear from new clients is that they have trouble finding experienced Microsoft Dynamics GP consultants to partner with for guidance on how to update their Dynamics GP ecosystem affordably and derive the maximum business value out of the application.
The longer an organization attempts to make do with outdated releases of Dynamics GP, the more challenging the migration process becomes. If physical host servers or storage systems fail, there could be no equivalent devices on the market to use as substitutes. When versions of Microsoft Windows Server that run Dynamics GP reach end-of-support status, critical security patches stop being released. The latest editions of SQL Server might not be compatible with your important GP customizations. Innovative products such as Microsoft's Power BI may not run. Organizations considering an update of their Dynamics GP environment can be intimidated by the volume of components involved in the puzzle. And the cost quoted for a migration may be astronomical.
Dynamics GP Upgrade and Enhancement Services Offered by Progent
Progent has offered support for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Great Plains for over 20 years, and Progent's seasoned professionals have provided high-level and affordable online consulting for Windows-powered networks to organizations in every state throughout the U.S. By offering in-depth familiarity with all editions of Dynamics GP along with world-class system integration skills, Progent is ideally suited to make sure your Waltham, Massachusetts business get the most out of GP/Great Plains.
We become partners with our customers and start by listening to their requirements. Once we have familiarity with the situation and the areas needing improvement we provide our suggestions. Proposed services can involve an upgrade to a newer and fully supported version of Dynamics GP, basic user training, complete system and individual module configuration including 3rd-party products offered by a broad range of suppliers that have published add-ons to Microsoft Dynamics GP, custom integrations with other key business software within your company, custom report writing, and solution analysis to determine whether GP is being utilized optimally. Our goal with every Dynamics GP engagement of whatever size is to optimize strategic value and minimize expense.
Progent can assist your Waltham, Massachusetts company in every facet of your Microsoft Dynamics GP upgrade or enhancement process including:
- Deployment Review
Review at what modules and features of Dynamics GP you are currently running and discuss other capabilities of the product that may be helpful to your business. - Migration Design and Timing
Develop a complete upgrade plan and schedule that avoids business disruption. Schedule solution validation, live deployment, and education. Specify customizations and add-on modules. Predict and manage integration problems. - Testing
Plan and implement a test environment for validating the migration process. - System Updates
Create backup copies of databases and dictionaries, eConnect automation, and GP Integration Manager data. eMigrate Dynamics GP to the latest version to ensure continuing support from Microsoft and to make all current features accessible to your organization. Upgrade SQL Server and compatibility levels for all associated databases. Activate services from the GP Professional Services Tools Library. Condition data and execute scripts to resolve documented issues. - Custom Reporting
Develop reports and or custom dashboards for private and external consumption. Configure SQL Server Reporting Services and integrate Dynamics GP with Microsoft Power BI for self-service reporting and for aggregating data from diverse local and remote sources. - Education
Provide individual or group training for existing and first-time users of Dynamics GP. - Support Services
Act as a single contact for support to ensure consistent and affordable handling of problems made possible by close understanding of your specific situation.
Progent can provide the support of top-tier consultants who have been creating working Dynamics GP and Great Plains environments since relerase 1. Progent can do the jobs you require directly instead of supervising less experienced consultants or in-house staff. Important areas where Progent's consultants can deliver Microsoft Dynamics GP support services include:
- Recommendations
Suggest the use of modules that come with the core GP platform but are not currently being utilized. Also, suggest third-party products designed exclusively for Dynamics GP to deliver capabilities that GP doesn't offer. - Integrations
Build custom connections between Microsoft Dynamics GP and other strategic platforms to avoid duplicate entry and improve accuracy. - Customizations
Build big and small customizations that work with Dynamics GP to handle various business functions that are not handled by out-of-the-box GP modules or external modules.
Progent can assist you to enhance your network infrastructure to accommodate Microsoft Dynamics GP for any deployment model including local, cloud-based, or a hybrid network model. Infrastructure services provided by Progent include:
- Needs assessment and IT asset inventory
- Network topology planning and implementation (local, cloud-based, or hybrid)
- Setting up firewalls and VPN connections and defining security policies
- Managing iOS, Google Android, and Windows mobile devices
- Creating high-availability architectures
- Integration with PaaS and IaaS services such as Office 365
- business continuity planning
- Performance tuning
A modern Microsoft Dynamics GP ecosystem includes diverse software platforms, local network infrastructure technologies, and cloud products combined into a seamless ERP solution. For more than 20 years, Progent's consultants have delivered remote and on-premises support from Microsoft-certified experts including Dynamics GP/Great Plains integrators, Windows Server specialists, SQL Server developers, Exchange integration consultants, Microsoft Office experts, and SharePoint development consultants. Progent has worked with these products from their initial versions to their current versions, and Progent can help with cloud-based SaaS options by offering Office 365 integration services, Exchange Online expertise, and SharePoint Online deployment and development expertise.
Progent also has extensive experience delivering support from top-tier 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 businesses through each phase of updating their older Microsoft Dynamics GP deployment. Progent also offers the support of advanced security and compliance engineers, disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness consultants, application programmers, hybrid cloud architecture experts, and database administrators who can assist you to plan, deploy, and manage a productive Dynamics GP solution.
Progent's Consulting Services for Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP Solutions
To learn more about Progent's online and onsite support services in Waltham, Massachusetts for Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP software, see:
- Dynamics GP Consulting Services
- Dynamics GP 2015 Expertise
- MS Dynamics GP/Great Plains Program Features
- Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP Benefits
- Expert Help with MS Dynamics GP Reporting
- Dynamics GP Custom Programming
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CCDP Certified UNIX Online Technical Support Companies
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Altaro VM Backup software provides small organizations a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, remote, distributed, and cloud-hosted architectures and also supports cost-effective backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Top features include state-of-the-art inline deduplication to cut backup storage needs, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing as low as five minutes for reducing your exposure to data loss, advanced encryption, granular recovery options for specific files and emails, extensive support for Windows Cluster Shared Volumes and for VMware vCenter for managing large-scale deployments, and support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up live virtual machines without downtime. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and offers a wide range of consulting services to help you to design, install, manage and troubleshoot a backup/restore system powered by Altaro VM Backup software.
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Office SharePoint Server 2003 On-site Support
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Progent’s Microsoft-certified experts offer small and midsize companies IT consulting, support, and troubleshooting services for Microsoft SPS 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal platform for efficiently connecting people, groups and data. SharePoint Portal Server provides a common spot for your workers or customers to connect to, manage, distribute and interact with useful data, files, and software and to interact with one another. It enables faster and more intelligent decisions, more effective access across groups and more economical business practices. The main goal of SharePoint Server is to gather together, in a productive way, all of the diverse sources of information accessible within and outside a business network. Windows SharePoint Services connect employees, clients, workgroups and major tasks with the knowledge they’ve developed in a way that makes data easy to find, download and re-use.
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Biggest Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server Computer Consultant
Clustered Windows Specialist
Progent provides Windows Cluster Server expertise to help your organization deploy high availability clustered servers designed to deliver 24x7 uptime. Windows cluster servers for high-availability networks include Windows Cluster Server, Microsoft SQL Cluster, and Exchange Server Cluster. By helping you design non-stop clustered server solutions powered by Microsoft Windows Server Cluster 2003, Progent’s Premier Windows engineers ensure that your fault-tolerant server clusters are set up to optimize the strategic value of your information system.
SCCM 2016 Policy Settings Consulting
SCCM 2016 Software Inventory Troubleshooting
Configuration Manager 2016 automates application and device provisioning across multiple sites, simplifies security and compliance settings control, keeps track of network assets, guards against company data leakage, performs network health monitoring, allows secure end-user self service, and offers a single point of control for administering multi-OS ecosystems based on on-prem, cloud, or hybrid deployment architectures. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM 2016 consulting team and Azure cloud integration specialists can help your organization with any aspect of designing, installing, using and troubleshooting a SCCM 2016 deployment for local, cloud, or hybrid networks.
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Progent's proven ransomware recovery consultants can assist your business to rebuild a network damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky.
Active Directory Setup and Support
Microsoft Active Directory Technology Professional
Microsoft Windows Enterprise Directory requires extensive hands-on experience to integrate efficiently across an enterprise. Progent’s Microsoft Certified consultants are skilled in planning, integrating, and supporting complex Enterprise AD projects. Progent’s fields of expertise with Microsoft Windows Active Directory include replication problems, multi-domain partition design, repair of corrupted AD objects, dealing with residual beta version configuration objects in production AD environments, and fixing failed configurations of AD and Active Directory-associated applications.
Information Security Firewall Configuration
24 Hour Internet Security Cybersecurity Companies
For smaller organizations, computer security and compliance can be too complicated to master yet too dangerous to overlook. The largest biggest institutions have been hacked, and the top cloud services have on occasion been knocked out. It looks as though there's no place to run. Progent makes it affordable for smaller organizations to carry out critical IT security projects effectively by providing the benefit of billed time to the closest minute without any minimum billing for remote help. You have access to a seasoned information consultant to provide just the knowledge you need whenever you need it. Progent’s CISA, CISM, GIAC, CISSP and ISSAP certified security experts can help your business with any level of network security including security assessments, virus screening and recovery, spam and email content filtering, email data loss and data leak protection, compliance reporting, and creating a complete security plan.
Remote PC and Smartphone Information Technology Outsource
Desktop VPN Information Technology Outsourcing Group
Progent's remote connectivity and wireless synchronization specialists can assist your business to design and deploy connectivity solutions for off-site desktops, laptops, and smartphones so they integrate seamlessly with your IT network, enabling you to optimize the productivity of your off-site workforce.
Wireless LAN Professionals
Wireless LAN Professionals
Progent can show you how to plan, configure, manage, monitor, and repair an efficient Wireless LAN architecture, recommend appropriate hardware and software, and integrate wireless access points, bridges, antennas, wireless controllers, and various wireless accessories. Progent can also help you put together a thorough 802.11ac wireless system security strategy that is well integrated with the security strategy for your entire corporate network.
MCSE Expert Certified Online Consulting Dynamics GP Great Plains Software
Dynamics GP/Great Plains On-site Technical Support
Dynamics GP can help you expand and control your company better by delivering easy availability of decision-driving information and a rapid ROI. Dynamics GP offers major productivity benefits including its ability to extend the presence of your company, handle your accounting, computerize financial operations, unify processes across your business, refine inventory control, enhance order accuracy, grow sales and shorten lead-time, and increase free cash flow. Progent can show you how to configure and manage a reliable, secure server and communications infrastructure to support Great Plains, and can offer experienced Dynamics GP consultants to make sure you reap the full benefits of your Dynamics GP business management system.
Live Online Windows 8.1 Trainer
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System Center Operations Manager IT Services
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Progent's wireless site survey and predictive modeling assist you to design, implement and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi network adapted to your facilities, offering you a wireless solution that has the reception, speed, capacity, QoS, security, and hand-off ability your business requires. Wi-Fi site survey services from Progent include remote predictive modeling for planning a Wi-Fi network and onsite site survey services for confirming, tuning, and debugging a functioning Wi-Fi network.
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Progent applies no initialization charge and requires no retainer for services delivered during normal working hours. Progent's one-minute granularity avoids big invoices for fast solutions so you won't be forced to permit simple problems to stay unaddressed. .
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Even if your business has a minimal computer support staff and a limited technology budget, your information network can still feature the same high reliability and performance that once needed a substantial internal support organization. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the expertise of world-class Microsoft-certified and Cisco-premier network consultants, the most recent network management software for 24x7 monitoring and alerts, and economical service packages such as a help desk call center to keep your mission-critical business applications and servers operating.
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Progent's Computer Help Desk Outsourcing Support Services for desktop support are intended specifically for small organizations who require immediate availability of a Help Desk Call Center with professional phone support and effective escalation options but who must operate within a limited IT budget. Important components of Progent's Help Desk Outsourcing Services are Help Desk Support, Optional Remote Access Provisioning, Initial System Assessment, Expert Prioritization, Virtual Help Desk Support, By-the-Minute Billing, and Helpdesk Software Recommendation and Deployment.
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