Edmonton Consulting Experts
IT Staff Temps for IT Service Organizations
In addition to providing fast contact with high-level network professionals and subject matter experts (SMEs) to help Edmonton, Alberta businesses with discrete IT problems or strategic initiatives, Progent offers temporary staff augmentation to deal with more generalized services like desktop help, network management, and Help Desk call center response. Temporary staffing can help businesses to deal with planned or unplanned peaks in the need for network personnel, which may be caused by scenarios like company mergers, data center relocation, technology migration, paradigm shifts like telecommuting, disaster response, seasonal variations, or new compliance requirements. Short-term IT staff augmentation can also fill voids resulting from the loss of full-time staff members because of scheduled vacations, health issues, termination, etc.
Benefits of Progent's Short-Term Staff Augmentation Program Progent's temporary staffing services give businesses the ability to respond to surges in demand for network services without dealing with the costs and delays associated with identifying and hiring professional technical personnel and without the risk of adding to your full-time staff size.
Important features of Progent's short-term staff augmentation services include:
- Fast access to reliable IT professionals
- Simple initiation, cessation, and resumption of services
- Transparent extension of your full-time network support staff
- Full reporting of all services performed
- Optional escalation from Tier 1 up to Tier 3 support so even the toughest issues get resolved promptly
- Strong relationship with a top-level, full-spectrum source for IT expertise
Progent's co-managed Call Center program is a specialized flexible staff augmentation option that enables IT organizations to divide the work of Help Desk Call Center support transparently between their internal IT staff and Progent's nationwide pool of IT support specialists. Acting as a seamless extension of your in-house Call Center, Progent's shared Call Center service is a joint service alternative based on by the industry's leading group professional services (PSA) platform for streamlining, service calls, ticketing, assigning responsibility, tracking progress, and producing documentation.
Why Choose Progent?
Progent has two decades of experience providing online and onsite IT services for businesses across the United States. Progent's engineers hold top certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, Linux vendors, VMware, Citrix, IBM, and other technology leaders. Progent's cybersecurity experts hold top certifications including ISSAP, CISA, and CRISC. Find out more details about Progent's industry certifications.
Progent's Areas of Expertise for Edmonton, Alberta Companies
Progent's veteran roster of certified consultants and technical experts can provide Edmonton, Alberta organizations a wide array of online technical guidance and debugging services. Practice areas offered under Progent's consulting program for IT service providers include:
- Exchange 2019 and 365 Exchange Online Consulting
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Migration
- Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design
- Windows Server 2019 Migration
- Windows Server 2016 Consulting
- Windows 11 Migration Consulting
- Windows 10 Integration
- Windows 8.1 Support
- SharePoint Development
- SQL Server Migration
- Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Planning
- Office/Microsoft 365 Configuration
- Microsoft Dynamics GP Consulting
- Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
- Remote IT Troubleshooting
- Work from Home Support
- Cisco Infrastructure
- Juniper Networks Infrastructure
- Cisco Routers Configuration
- Security and Compliance Monitoring
- Penetration Testing with NodeZero
- Business Continuity Planning
- Stealth Penetration Testing
- Firewall Configuration
- Help Desk Call Center Services
- Desktop Tech Support
- Colo Data Center Solutions
- System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Monitoring
- Configuration Manager Automation
- Microsoft Access Expertise
- Virtualization Management
- Fast, Low-cost .NET Software Development.
- Hyper-V Planning
- VMware vSphere and vCenter Integration
- Citrix XenApp Configuration
- Cisco Unified CM/CallManager
- Apple macOS and iOS Expertise
- Smartphone Management
- Apple iPhone Support
- Google Android Smartphone Management
- Ransomware Defense/Recovery
- Data Backup/Recovery Consulting
- Cisco IP Voice Phones and Conferencing
- Skype for Business Support
- Microsoft Teams Integration
- Wi-Fi 6/6E Access Point Configuration
- Wi-Fi Predictive and On-premises Surveys
Contact Progent for Temporary IT Staffing for Edmonton, Alberta Organizations
To learn more about Progent's temporary staffing services for Edmonton, Alberta companies, call
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Live Communications Server Onsite Technical Support
Microsoft LCS Server Professional
MS Communications Server provides IM and presence as part of a scalable, enterprise-grade solution featuring advanced security, transparent integration with additional Microsoft products, an extendable, standards-based development environment, and compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, and GLB. The product allows cost savings and elevated business efficiencies, increased worker output, and stronger intellectual property security. MS Office Communications Server has been superseded by Lync, which itself has been replaced by Skype for Business. Progent's Microsoft-certified IM and Presence experts offer online and on-premises configuration support and mediation services for your Office Communications Server deployment and can help your organization to evaluate the costs and benefits of upgrading to Skype for Business. Progent can also assist you to design and execute a smooth upgrade that will add business value to your information network
Nagios for Linux Engineer
Nagios for Linux Consultant Services
Network monitoring typically entails observing a system's resource usage in order to identify data traffic bottlenecks or troubleshoot hardware or software problems. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are powerful, free network monitoring tools that run under Linux and can be deployed to monitor mixed-platform networks where Linux and Windows operate together. Progent's system support consultants can help you take advantage of both these programs to optimize and troubleshoot your network. Progent's Linux support services provide small businesses and developers help with managing and supporting UNIX/Linux and Solaris systems that coexist with Windows-based technology.
Immediate Videoconferencing Support
24 Hour Immersive Telepresence Support
Progent can provide the services of a certified consultant with an extensive background deploying technology from the leading video conferencing/telepresence vendors such as Cisco, Polycom, and LifeSize and can assist you to plan, configure, upgrade, or troubleshoot a telepresence solution that protects your current investment and optimizes the business value of your information system. Progent can also provide the services of network infrastructure consultants who can assist businesses of all sizes to create and maintain a network that delivers the speed, dependability, security, and expandability you need to support your video conferencing/telepresence solution.
NodeZero Certified Security Penetration Testing Audit
Security Team NodeZero Certified Cybersecurity Penetration Testing
Progent's certified cybersecurity experts can run NodeZero-powered threat assessments to make sure your security defense systems and policies are correctly set up and effective.
Top Ranked Google Android patch management Consulting
Consult Software patch management services
Progent's support services for software/firmware update management provide organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your virtual and physical; servers, endpoint devices printers, network appliances such as routers and Wi-Fi access points, and Internet-of-Things devices such as sensors and health monitors.
macOS and Cisco Consultant Services
Apple Macintosh Infrastructure Professional
Progent's Apple Mac networking engineers can assist you with a wide range of network infrastructure issues including network architecture, off-site and mobile connectivity, internetwork compatibility, security, and new technologies including VoIP and high-speed wireless connectivity. For company networks based exclusively on Mac OS X or for environments incorporating a combination of Mac, Linux/UNIX and Windows powered servers and desktops, Progent has the knowledge and size to handle the challenge of designing, integrating, and supporting a system infrastructure that is reliable, safe, efficient and supportive of your business objectives. Progent can show you how to deploy Apple's Xserve enterprise servers, Apple's Xserve RAID fault-tolerant storage products, and Apple's Xsan storage area network solution. Progent can also give you access to skilled experts to help you with Cisco routers and switches.
Consulting WannaCry ransomware protection and recovery
Consultant Services Maze ransomware protection and recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis tools by SentinelOne to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete threat progression including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks.
Dynamics GP SmartList Designer Engineers
Technology Professional Dynamics GP FRx
Microsoft Dynamics GP software includes analytics and reporting capabilities that let you monitor all operations, sales and expenses, and sales patterns with built-in drill-down, inquiry, and reporting capabilities. Progent's Dynamics GP reporting consulting services can help you design reports that let you understand your business more thoroughly, turning raw data into useful business information. Progent is able to improve your reporting and business analysis by offering Crystal Reports expertise, FRx support, and Microsoft Excel assistance. In addition to delivering reporting consulting, Progent can supply Microsoft .NET support, Microsoft SQL Server expertise, and application design with VBasic, XML and other development environments in order to offer specialized line-of-business application development and eCommerce applications that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
Immediate Integration Support microsoft scom 2016
scom 2016 management groups Support Outsourcing
Microsoft System Center 2016 Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) is designed to promote top performance and maximum availability for critical applications by providing unified, mixed-platform monitoring of physical and virtual infrastructure installed across on-premises datacenters and private and public clouds. Progent's consulting group can provide advanced remote and onsite support to assist businesses of any size to plan, implement, tune, update and repair SCOM 2016 solutions. Progent can help your company to migrate to SCOM 2016 from older releases of Operations Manager or from different monitoring platforms, or combine a variety of monitoring tools into a cohesive infrastructure management ecosystem. Progent can also help you extend your SCOM 2016 scope to incorporate infrastructure hosted on public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
System Center 2016 Endpoint Protection Computer Consultants
Support and Setup System Center 2016 Hybrid Cloud Integration
Microsoft System Center 2016 delivers major improvements in the management of hybrid cloud environments through comprehensive integration with Windows Server 2016 servers, Windows 10 clients; seamless integration of heterogeneous networks that include Linux, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and expanded cloud support such as tighter integration with Intune for Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphone management plus native integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting staff offers advanced remote and onsite expertise for all components of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager (SCSM). Progent can help your business to plan and install a new implementation of System Center 2016, extend or optimize an existing one, upgrade smoothly from an earlier release of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center solution.
.NET C# Design Firms
Designer .NET Linux
If you want to update your corporate web site, build internal websites for purposes such as human resources or employee training, establish a high-impact web presence for a new venture, or generate enterprise-class, data-driven specialized web applications, Progent can supply talented and experienced web developers. Progent's consultants can also show you how to design and maintain a safe, fault-tolerant server and communications network, including off-site and wireless access, to support your web solutions.
24-Hour Developer .NET C#
ASP.NET Core Outsourced Programming
Progent's application developers have worked for two decades with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development environment and can create or update .NET apps rapidly and at low cost.
Cisco ASDM Firewall Management Support
Emergency Online Support Services Cisco ASDM Firewall Management
Progent's certified Cisco IT security consultants provide high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support including infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-level appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, high throughput, and excellent reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, eliminating common OS-specific security holes.
Microsoft Expert Remote Support SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Microsoft Certified Partner SharePoint Setup and Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer small and midsize businesses IT consulting, support, and repair services for Microsoft SPS 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal platform for efficiently connecting people, teams and information. SharePoint Portal Server provides a common spot for your workers or customers to connect to, organize, distribute and manipulate relevant information, files, and applications and to interact with one another. It allows quicker and more intelligent decisions, more effective sharing across groups and more streamlined business practices. The primary objective of SharePoint Server is to bring together, in a productive way, all of the many sources of information accessible inside and without a business network. Windows SharePoint Services join employees, customers, workgroups and projects with the information they've created in a manner that makes data convenient to find, retrieve and re-use.
Microsoft SBS Premium Add-on Computer Consultants
Microsoft Certified On-site Support SBS
Microsoft Small Business Server is an affordable suite of server products that provides the basis for a feature-rich but easy-to-manage IT network. The technical sophistication of the Microsoft .NET components bundled with Microsoft Small Business Server requires a computer consultant with hands-on experience planning and integrating seamless, end-to-end business network environments. Progent's SBS Server professionals have an average of more than 10 years of background integrating business networks based on Microsoft products. This expertise ensures you results in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting network solutions that incorporate the Microsoft SBS Server package of servers and productivity software.
ProSight Hosting for Virtual Servers Professional
Private Cloud Virtual Datacenter Hosting Consultants
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting offers advanced virtual server technology, a world-class data center, and the support expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team to provide small and midsize businesses with a complete information technology outsourcing alternative that enhances network availability and protection, eliminates management distraction, and cuts costs. With Private Cloud Hosting, a small or midsize business can have all of its operating system platforms and key business application servers hosted in a secure and reliable data center on a fast, high-availability virtual server configured and maintained by Progent's network service professionals.
After Hours Amazon MWS integration training Development Companies
Integration Companies Amazon Marketplace Web Service programming
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is a library of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to streamline their business processes by automating key sales functions including listings, orders, shipments, fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's extensive online ecosystem and automating their sales processes, merchants can expand their reach, lower their cost of sales, accelerate response time to customers, and increase their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service developers can collaborate with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can shorten development time and costs and speed up your return on investment.
Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct Professionals
Windows Server 2016 Migration On-site Technical Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified IT experts can provide Windows Server 2016 migration consulting services to assist businesses of all sizes to plan and implement a smooth move to Windows Server 2016 and Windows Hyper-V 2016 based on a local, cloud-centric, or hybrid architecture. Progent can assist your company to evaluate the benefits of Windows Server 2016 for your environment and can help you with any aspect of designing, deploying, administering or troubleshooting your Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 ecosystem. Progent can assist your organization to benefit from the many innovative disaster recovery and security features of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 such as Windows Containers for isolating applications, Shielded Virtual Machines, Credential Guard, JIT Privileged Access Management, VM software load, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss disaster recovery, plus multi-domain clusters.
Part-Time CIO Online Support
CIO On-site Technical Support
Progent offers the part-time or temporary assistance of a seasoned CIO who can offer a broad perspective to assist you select and maintain IT technology to meet your current needs and that can be a solid basis for your future growth. Progent's part-time or temporary Chief Information Officer services provide economic advantages to companies who want to maximize the benefits from their network expenditures but who are unable or hesitant to add another executive-level position to their head count. Since Progent is vendor-neutral, with a large staff of consultants certified to support all leading OS platforms and connectivity technologies plus a broad range and business software, Progent is in an ideal position to provide unbiased recommendations along with expert technical help for developing information solutions that fit the special requirements of your organization.
Project Implementation Services
Project Pilots Consulting
For enterprise project management assistance, Progent offers the services of senior information technology experts with years of background in IT management, program development, and business process design for organizations from Big 4 firms to dot-com startups to state government agencies. These high-level IT managers can provide project management expertise to assist enterprise customers follow best practices to ensure that strategic projects are successfully completed on time and on budget.
Consultant Fault Tolerant Load Balancing
Non-stop Load Balancing On-site Support
Progent provides high availability load balancing support covering network load balancing, load balanced program, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content dispatching technology such as Cisco Content Engine. High availability load balancing vendors for which Progent offers consulting expertise include Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Access Gateway, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Distribution Manager and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS.
Expert Microsoft Certified Hyper-V 2016 Technical Consultant
Windows Server Hyper-V 2016 Hybrid Cloud Support
Hyper-V 2016 incorporates core features first designed for and refined on Azure, among the world's largest public clouds. This pedigree dramatically improves the ability of the Windows Server platform to support private cloud as well as hybrid cloud/on-premises deployment models by improving data security, availability, expandability, manageability, dependability and recoverability. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can help you to assess the benefits of Hyper-V 2016 for your organization, set up test systems to verify the ability of Hyper-V 2016 to run your critical workloads, design an efficient network topology for a cloud-centric or hybrid deployment, develop and execute a non-disruptive upgrade plan, train your IT administration and support personnel, and provide as-needed consulting and troubleshooting support to make sure that your Hyper-V 2016 solution delivers maximum business benefit.
Dynamics GP Visual Studio Services
Biggest Dynamics GP Visual Studio Consulting Services
Progent's background delivering Microsoft .NET support and Microsoft SQL Server consulting, and Progent's programming experience with Microsoft VBasic, XML, and other developer platforms enable Progent to design specialized line-of-business programs and eCommerce environments that integrate seamlessly with Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP reporting services can help you create reports that let you analyze your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked data into valuable understanding of your business.
Help and Support SharePoint Server 2003
Office SharePoint Server 2003 Computer Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts offer businesses of all sizes consulting, troubleshooting, and application development services for SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise platform that uses web technology for intelligently coordinating people, teams and data. Microsoft SharePoint Server provides a central spot for your employees or clients to connect to, organize, share and interact with useful data, files, and applications and to interact with one another. SharePoint enables faster and better decisions, more efficient access across teams and more streamlined business practices. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, clients, workgroups and major tasks with the knowledge they've developed in a way that makes data easy to locate, download and re-use. Progent's SharePoint experts can help your organization to manage your current SharePoint environment or migrate to the latest release of SharePoint Server or to SharePoint Online.
Altaro VM Backup Troubleshooting Support Services
Help and Support Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and VMware
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity offers small and mid-size organizations a dependable and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, offsite, multi-site, and cloud-hosted architectures and also supports cost-effective backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware via Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof data that cannot be erased or modified by any user including administrators or root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can provide a broad array of online or onsite services to help you to design, install, manage and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup/restore solution powered by Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup software.
Engineers Google Cloud IAM
Google Cloud GKE Professionals
Progent offers affordable online and onsite consulting to help companies of any size to move any portion of their critical IT resources to Google Cloud Platform services. This can save time and equipment costs and allow the use of Google's state-of-the-art machine learning tools. Progent can help you with every phase of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, preparedness assessment, architectural design and review, testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, software license management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security.
Consulting Ryuk ransomware hot line
ransomware removal and restore Consulting
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a experienced ransomware recovery expert who can help you to halt the progress of an ongoing ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
After Hours 802.11 Configuration
24-Hour Computer Consulting Wireless LAN
Progent's Wireless Consulting Services provide a convenient, affordable option for businesses of all sizes to integrate, manage and troubleshoot the latest wireless connectivity technology. For 802.11n and the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi environments, Progent can show you how to plan and install hardware such as Cisco's Aironet and Meraki access points and wireless network controllers. For wireless email and online applications, Progent supports Apple iPhones, Apple iPads, Google Android smartphones, and Windows smartphones and tablets.
iPad patch management Consultancy
Wi-Fi access point patch management Engineers
Progent's managed services for software/firmware update management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your servers, peripherals {like printers, network infrastructure appliances like switches and wireless access points, and Internet-of-Things devices like alarms and health monitors.
24x7 MSP360 B2 Backup Storage Onsite Technical Support
MSP360 Desktop Backup Consulting Services
Progent can help you to create, deploy and manage a backupup/restore plan built around MSP360 Backup software to protect your IT resources hosted on any leading public cloud. Progent can provide end-to-end monitoring and management to protect against data loss caused by user mistakes, system error, malicious insiders, and malware attacks like ransomware.
Setup and Support Core Routers
RV Series VPN Router Online Support
Cisco has designed a full array of routers that includes routers built to deliver the protection, performance, and reliability demanded by organizations ranging from branch offices to worldwide enterprises. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failover, and backup power for improved fault tolerance and system availability. Progent can show you how to choose and configure Cisco routers to establish a solid infrastructure for your network and to make it economical to expand as you support new users, open new offices, install new services, extend your network to clients and partners, and manage a more mobile workforce. Progent offers help with a variety of routers powered by Cisco's IOS platform, including the Cisco 800 family of small office routers, Cisco 2800 and 3800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1900 and 4000 G2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 routers for wide area network edge environments, Cisco CRS Carrier Routing System for the network core, as well as older 2500 and 2700 Routers.
CRM Online Help
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Remote Troubleshooting
Microsoft CRM helps small businesses nurture positive client interactions. Built-in Sales and Customer Service components allow in-house staff to share data to help improve selling success and offer steady, efficient customer service. Progent can configure the optimal server and communications environment, including mobile wireless connectivity, to back MS CRM, and Progent's Experts Team can provide your small business with a certified MS CRM professional who can show you how to integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM with your marketing or customer support data.
ProSight Email Content Filtering Policies Specialists
ProSight Email Guard Spam Filtering Services Consultancy
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of ProSight Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.
Onsite Technical Support Network Troubleshooting
Urgent Automatic Network Topology Mapping Setup and Support
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized organizations to diagram, track, reconfigure and debug their networking hardware like routers and switches, firewalls, and load balancers plus servers, client computers and other devices. Incorporating cutting-edge RMM technology, WAN Watch ensures that network maps are always updated, copies and manages the configuration of almost all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and generates alerts when problems are detected. By automating complex management activities, WAN Watch can knock hours off ordinary tasks like making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that need important updates, or isolating performance bottlenecks.
