Progent can assist you in any and all phases of your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 including designing high availability (HA) infrastructure for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid environment; CAL licensing requirements for Exchange Server and Windows Server 2012 R2+; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V virtualization design; specifying mass storage capacity required for your VMs, databases and logs; setting up hardware load balancing for fault-tolerant CAS services; designing, setting up and validating Exchange and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint; preparing your firewall; creating SSL certs; providing client integration with Office desktop or Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook on the web.
Progent believes that a well designed and implemented information system can be a pivotal piece for enabling any firm's success, and we follow this belief in our corporate system infrastructure. We have created a zero-downtime virtual office network that enables our in-house engineers and authorized contractors to deliver fast and efficient service, cooperate closely on sophisticated projects, and experience professional and personal growth by being a member of an exciting company culture of self motivation and independence.
Even if your company has a minimal network services staff and a modest technology budget, your information network can still have the same high availability and performance that once needed a large in-house support organization. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of skilled Microsoft-expert and Cisco-premier network professionals, the most recent network management products for proactive monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective service programs such as a help desk call center to keep your mission-critical business applications and hardware operating.
Cisco's Meraki MS line of access and distribution switches are intended for sites ranging from branch offices to large campuses. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants offer affordable remote expertise to help you to design and deploy a productive network solution that incorporates Meraki MS switches, streamline network administration with Meraki's cloud-based management architecture, define policies to maintain security and compliance, develop and validate a disaster preparedness plan, and resolve technical issues associated with any aspect of your Meraki ecosystem. Progent can also help you to integrate Meraki switches with Cisco's Nexus or Catalyst data center switches and with Meraki Wi-Fi APs to create a unified networking solution.
Progent offers the expertise of CISM Certified security professionals. The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization defines the basic capabilities and international standards of skill that IT security professionals are required to master. CISM gives business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security management and support services.
Progent's expert programmers, database designers, and program managers can help enterprise clients to complete development programs for Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Web applications. Progent's enterprise co-sourcing services include fast access to seasoned program managers for advanced planning and project co-ordination or Progent can help customers plug expertise gaps by offering relational database architects and programmers skilled in developing line-of-business applications based on SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL. Progent's SharePoint Server experts can help clients to integrate SharePoint with other data sources such as SQL Server and Excel to build data-intensive intranets and portal sites. Progent also offers expertise with web development technologies and can assist businesses to build, expand, repair, or migrate web applications to take advantage of the latest advances in web technology.
Lync Server 2010 supports IM, Presence, voice/video conferencing, desktop sharing, as well as VoIP and traditional PSTN voice communication. Microsoft Lync 2010 can enhance the functionality of Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Office or Microsoft 365 and streamlines management through integration with Windows AD. Lync 2010 can also reduce expenses by doing away with VoIP equipment and subscription services, PBX systems, or conventional video conferencing solutions. Progent's Microsoft-certified unified communications consultants can provide remote and on-premises support to assist you to maintain and troubleshoot your current Lync Server 2010 deployment or assess the advantages of migrating from Lync to Skype for Business, which is the renamed and revamped release of the product. Progent can also assist your organization to plan and execute a smooth Skype for Business upgrade or a migration to Microsoft Teams.
Progent's CCIE-certified networking experts have extensive background helping ISPs to design, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot high-availability, extensible connectivity solutions appropriate for shared public networks.
Microsoft Small Business Server is an affordable suite of essential servers that provides the foundation for a feature-rich but manageable IT network. The technical demands of the Microsoft .NET components included with Microsoft Small Business Server requires a network support expert with real-world experience planning and building cohesive, end-to-end business technology solutions. Progent's SBS Server professionals have an average of over a decade of background supporting computer systems built on Microsoft products. This background assures you success in deploying, administering, and repairing network environments that include the Small Business Server suite of servers and applications.
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity offers small businesses a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also enables low-cost cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup defends against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof data that cannot be erased or modified by any user including administrators. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of online or onsite services to help you to design, install, optimize and troubleshoot a modern backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup technology.
System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager (SCDPM 2016) offers near-continuous backup and simplified recovery capabilities for Microsoft-based networks. Data Protection Manager 2016 offers application-sensitive backup for key platforms like Microsoft SQL, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server, backs up Windows and Linux VMs, works with VMs running on Hyper-V and VMware, and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Azure for easy-to-manage cloud-based backup and recovery. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can assist organizations of any size to plan, implement, manage, and repair a multi-site backup/recovery solution built around Data Protection Manager 2016. Progent can help you to upgrade from a previous version of Data Protection Manager or from an outdated system, and Progent can optimize your SCDPM 2016 environment for on premises, hosted, cloud or hybrid deployment models. Progent offers online or onsite consulting expertise and can provide occasional expertise to resolve challenging issues or provide comprehensive project management services to make sure you complete your Data Protection Manager 2016 initiative on time and within your budget.
Progent's professionals offer experience in a variety of disciplines related to mobile connectivity such as system topology, Activesync, wireless security, mobile email, Microsoft Windows Mobile, RIM Blackberry, and wireless application programming. Progent's certified experts can save your company work and money by applying their wireless expertise to show you how to choose and integrate mobile access technologies that fit the needs of your business. Progent can also tune your IT infrastructure so that mobile data devices perform better.
Progent's IT outsourcing services offer affordable computer support for mid-size organizations. Whether it includes designing network architecture, setting up an internal Help Desk or using an outside one, rolling out a new email platform, monitoring your network, or creating an on-line business solution, outsourcing your network engineering services can smooth out expenses and eliminate risks, allowing IT support budgets to increase in a more moderate and controlled manner than is feasible by assembling a large, all-purpose internal network support staff. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers tell you how Progent can help you build a secure and robust network foundation for your critical Windows-powered business software such as Windows 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Years of experience delivering Microsoft expertise and Cisco technology consulting has allowed Progent to develop a unique capability for serving branch offices that require IT service with the responsiveness common to with small organizations but which offers professional client interaction, complete documentation, and compliance with enterprise IT protocols. If your enterprise maintains a sales office situated anywhere in or any region served by Progent's consultants, Progent can offer a wide array of on-premises and off-site network consulting services and system architecture assistance.
Progent's managed services for software/firmware update management provide businesses of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your servers, such as printers and scanners, infrastructure appliances like routers and wireless access points, and IoT devices like sensors and health monitors.
Progent can provide online and onsite configuration, migration, application development, training for Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Dynamivs NAV).
Progent's UNIX platform support services provide small companies and developers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent can give your organization access to UNIX consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM certification. This wide array of experience offers you a convenient one-stop consulting firm to show you how to create and manage a protected and robust mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with popular variants of UNIX including Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX), BSD, SCO UNIX and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat Linux, SuSE, Debian GNU/Linux and Slackware.
Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management helps small companies build positive client interactions. Built-in Sales and Customer Service components allow in-house staff to share information to help promote selling success and offer steady, effective customer service. Progent can set up the optimal server and communications environment, including mobile wireless connectivity, to back MS CRM, and Progent's Experts Team can provide your company with a certified MSCRM consultant who can show you how to integrate Microsoft CRM with your marketing or customer service databases.
Progent's ProSight family of managed services are intended to provide businesses who have small internal IT support teams with low-cost help from enterprise-class management platforms and technical experts. Advantages of the ProSight catalog of managed services include flat-rate IT maintenance expenses, automation of routine administrative tasks, continual adoption of new information technology, graceful transition from legacy systems to up-to-date solutions, close fit between computer technology with strategic objectives, access to seasoned network consultants, and allowing management to focus on business rather than ever-changing network technology.
Progent can help small and mid-size businesses to implement and troubleshoot video conferencing platforms to enable their telecommuters to collaborate effectively with colleagues and customers.
Progent uses a sophisticated support reporting system that stores and formats complete documentation for all delivered support activities. Unlike many freelance consultants or local service organizations who offer scant documentation or specifics of services performed, each service delivered by Progent is tracked by full documentation. Each Progent consultant has access to the support documentation transmitted by each staff member to each client. The discipline of documenting and archiving support activity results in more efficient support and avoids a variety of common problems such as when a support client is effectively held captive to a consultant who refuses to let go of the keys to the kingdom.
Progent's Microsoft-premier engineers can help your organization to update your desktops from 32 bits to 64 bits. Progent can assist you to calculate the risks and benefits of upgrading to 64-bit PC desktop computing, design an efficient upgrade strategy that reduces business disruptions, and provide inexpensive, expert remote help to aid your organization to configure 64-bit PC desktop software and applications on your existing computers.
Progent's application developers have worked for two decades with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development environment and are able to build or modernize .NET applications rapidly and affordably.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless infrastructure experts offer online or on-premises integration and troubleshooting services to help your organization to design, implement, upgrade, tune, administer and troubleshoot Aironet wireless AP environments of any size or architecture. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can also assist you to integrate your Wi-Fi environment with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-based resources to build a seamless enterprise-wide connectivity solution that is easy to administer and scale. Progent also can provide affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to determine the most efficient selection, placement and configuration of Aironet Wi-Fi APs to accommodate your specific workplace design, construction, and anticipated workloads.
Progent can show you how to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot a viable Wi-Fi LAN infrastructure, recommend appropriate products, and integrate wireless access points, bridges, antennas, wireless controllers, and various wireless products. Progent can also show you how to put together a thorough wireless system security strategy that is well integrated with the security plan for your overall business network.
Progent's Test and Training Lab at the QTS (formerly Herakles) Colocation Center can be used for piloting mission-critical applications, creating efficient migration methodologies, evaluating and optimizing performance, designing or validating business continuity strategies, resolving compatibility issues, and establishing training systems for the latest products and technologies. For Progent clients without sufficient in-house resources to configure effective test systems, the lab reduces capital costs and engineering risk and helps keep vital IT initiatives on schedule.
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology by SentinelOne to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats.
Medium-size businesses can enjoy all the advantages of System Center Operations Manager and have quick access to Progent's Microsoft and Cisco Certified network support experts. Thanks to Progent's affordably priced IT support programs, medium-size businesses can choose a basic co-sourcing package based on Operations Manager 2007 with server monitoring, automated warnings, in-depth reporting, Help Desk Call Center, and remote troubleshooting. For businesses with mission-critical environments who need non-stop networking, Progent offers a comprehensive round-the-clock outsourcing solution. Progent offers expertise in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to provide medium-size company networks enterprise-class availability, protection and productivity.
Progent's experienced ransomware recovery experts can assist you to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware attack like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Nephilim.
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) deliver a significant performance improvement over Cisco's popular ASA 5500-X security appliances and offer unified control of modern security features like application visibility, next-generation intrusion protection (NGIPS) with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, and sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified firewall experts can assist your organization to design and execute an efficient upgrade to Firepower firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX appliances and help you integrate Firepower appliances with Cisco's cloud-based services to build and centrally manage IT ecosystems that span local offices, data centers, private clouds and public clouds.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint consultants offer economical remote and on-premises consulting expertise, application development, and debugging services for businesses of all sizes who intend to migrate to SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online from earlier releases of SharePoint.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to assess the benefits of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop test environments and rollout strategies, optimize your network infrastructure for on-premises, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and partial-cloud datacenters, educate your IT support team, create a corporate-wide security plan, automate IT administration, assist with creating applications, and generate and validate a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Progent's certified Office Word and Microsoft 365 Word consultants can provide a broad range of affordable online consulting services to assist you to maintain your current Microsoft Office Word solution or assist you to move to a current release of Microsoft Office Word. Services offered by Progent's Word experts include VBA programming, identifying and fixing compatibility problems between different releases of Office Word, interfacing Office Word with different Microsoft Office apps like Office Excel and Outlook or with 3rd-party data sources and plug-ins,infrastructure enhancements for dependable. reliable cloud connectivity, security support, smart phone integration, and remote training tailored for your special requirements.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's ProSight Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your corporate firewall.
Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft-certified engineers and experienced software developers, DBAs, project management experts, Cisco-certified network engineers, disaster recovery planning specialists, and certified data security consultants to help your business to assess the potential advantages of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your organization, install pilot systems at your site or at Progent's test lab, design and execute out an efficient transition to SQL Server 2012 from earlier versions of SQL Server or from legacy database platforms, and configure an efficient and secure network infrastructure that helps you maximize the business benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Progent's Duo service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices.
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE experts can help organization to configure, manage, upgrade, optimize and debug Cisco Catalyst switches. Progent can also assist you to harden the security and compliance of Catalyst switches and migrate smoothly from legacy appliances to current devices.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified Wi-Fi network experts offer online or on-premises integration and troubleshooting support to help you to plan, configure, update, optimize, administer and debug Aironet wireless access point environments of any size or topology. Progent's Cisco wireless controller experts can also help you to combine your wireless environment with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-based resources to create a seamless enterprise connectivity foundation that is simple to manage and scale. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to determine the most efficient selection, location and configuration of Aironet wireless APs to accommodate your specific office design, construction, and anticipated workloads.
Our compensation structure is built on contribution, so just like working as a freelance consultant, your income is entirely driven by your work effort. Certain Progent consultants focus on lifestyle issues and elect to consult at an easy pace, using our self-determined calendar to follow individual pursuits like hiking, car racing, snow boarding, surfing, vacations, or spending private time with relatives and acquaintances. Other consultants take advantage of the opportunity to make big bucks through lots of work and extended days. Progent fully encourages both sides of the spectrum and everything in between.
Progent's team of expert software programmers, database architects, and program management consultants can assist enterprise clients to complete development projects for Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Web applications. Progent's enterprise co-sourcing services include fast access to seasoned project managers for high-level planning and project co-ordination or Progent can assist customers plug expertise gaps by offering relational database architects and programmers experienced in building RDBMS applications powered by SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL. Progent's SharePoint experts can help clients to integrate SharePoint with additional applications such as Microsoft SQL and Office Excel to create data-intensive intranets and web portals. Progent also offers experience with multiple web development tools and can assist businesses to build, expand, troubleshoot, or port web applications to utilize the most current web technology.
Progent's Citrix consultants can help your business to design, implement, administer, and support a virtual application delivery and management system based on XenApp. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can help you enhance your network infrastructure for delivering server-side and client-side applications, and Progent's datacenter management and support experts can assist you to administer and support a remote datacenter that features high uptime, advanced protection, and fast recovery.
Progent's managed services for software/firmware update management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your virtual and physical; servers, peripherals {like printers and scanners, network appliances like switches and wireless access points, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like sensors and health monitors.