Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a major impact on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting SMBs to design, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Harrisburg organization to select the appropriate technologies and adhere to leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual solution for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and returns maximum value. Progent offers support services that go from on demand guidance for getting you past occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can help Harrisburg, Pennsylvania businesses to with any facet of building a high-performing telecommuting environment by providing infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, security monitoring, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.
Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure required for an at-home workforce can be particularly complex if you must accommodate a mix of personal hardware like desktop computers and laptops, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from different vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's background delivering remote support for both legacy and current technologies in remote office solutions allows you to make cost-effective use of your available infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for making essential upgrades. Services offered by Progent to assist your company to create a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:
- VPN technology allows you to establish a safe connection for authenticated at-home workers to access IT resources located at your corporate datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent can assist your company to configure and maintain VPN access between your teleworkers and your key IT resources by providing remote VPN integration consulting. For organizations with Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall consultants can help your at-home workers to utilize Cisco's AnyConnect client software for safe VPN tunneling for a wide range of devices such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platforms enable a teleworker to view and use a remote PC's desktop. This technology provides network managers significant control over the digital environment of at-home employees and offers remote users a consistent and more productive experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI solutions.
- Routers connect at-home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN tunnels, home wireless networks, and firewall services. Progent can provide top-tier remote support for setting up routers from a variety of vendors. See router integration services from Cisco-certified consultants.
- Home Wireless networks, often shared by an entire household and visitors, are frequently used by at-home employees to access their Internet router for work. This can cause performance and cybersecurity problems. Progent can assist businesses to resolve these issues by delivering services like Cisco Aironet integration consulting, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi installation consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi AP setup help.
- Internet connectivity methods impact the speed and reliability of connections between at-home workers and the corporate network. Business-critical applications might demand backup Internet connections in the event the primary connection breaks. Progent can provide guidance for identifying Internet service providers, picking appropriate service packages, and integrating redundant Internet connections. Refer to Internet access solutions.
Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing an efficient work-from-home environment for your Harrisburg, Pennsylvania company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.