Progent's Linux consulting experts provide small and mid-size businesses and developers assistance with managing and supporting Linux computers that run with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent offers your organization access to Linux experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM credentials. This wide array of experience provides you with an easy single consulting firm to help you create and maintain a secure and robust cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows Linux and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with leading Linux platforms including RedHat Linux, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, PCLOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware.
Progent's certified Windows 2000 Server experts can provide network help and IT consulting services for the complete line of .NET Servers, Windows 2000 Server, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Progent's Windows Server 2000 configuration, optimization, and support services include network design, deployment, documentation, on-site and off-site technical support, Call Center outsourcing, expert security analysis, full service outsourcing, and economical co-sourcing.
Small to mid-sized businesses can now get all the advantages of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and also have fast access to Progent's Microsoft certified IT support professionals. With Progent's affordably priced network service packages, mid-size businesses can choose a basic co-sourcing service program based on System Center Operations Manager with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and remote service or a complete round-the-clock outsourcing solution. Progent offers expertise in Microsoft Operations Manager to offer small and midsize company networks enterprise-class reliability, security and performance.
Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft-certified consultants and experienced software programmers, database administrators, project managers, network infrastructure architects, business continuity planning specialists, and certified data security consultants to assist your business to evaluate the potential benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up pilot environments at your datacenter or at Progent's lab, plan and carry out a smooth transition to SQL Server 2012 from earlier versions of SQL Server or from legacy RDBMS solutions, and configure an efficient and safe IT infrastructure that helps you maximize the business benefit of SQL Server 2012.
Cisco's wireless VoIP phones are hardened wireless handsets intended for workers who are mobile within office, hospitality, health-care or other venues where IT management wants user endpoints that offer more administrative control, data security and ruggedness than is possible with the BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) mode of workplace communications. Integration of Cisco's wireless VoIP phones usually requires that you configure and fine tune numerous key pieces of your wireless environment including APs, switches, Cisco wireless LAN controllers, and call management tools. Progent's Cisco-certified experts can provide remote and on-premises assistance to help your organization build and maintain a Cisco wireless VoIP phone solution by delivering integration services that range from debugging the set up of an IP phone or AP to providing project management outsourcing or co-sourcing for modernizing the wireless architecture of a campus.
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that uses failover storage clustering with continual replication to deliver fast, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between sites that are as far as 185 miles apart from each other. Progent's team of seasoned network consultants can help you to design, deploy, manage, update, test and repair a disaster recovery solution built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster environment that meets your technical requirements and IT budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to leading practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with tasks such as assigning disk pools, determining plexes layout, provisioning FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing switches, implementing a tiebreaker, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your disaster recovery solution to prove compliance with industry standards and government requirements.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your organization to plan for, deploy, and operate Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012). Progent can help you to migrate smoothly to SCCM 2012 from a legacy device management platform or help you to enhance your existing SCCM 2012 environment to support your evolving business requirements. Also, Progent can help you to build a software foundation that extracts the most value from SCCM 2012 by delivering advanced consulting support for related Microsoft platforms including Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and Internet Information Services.
Progent can provide the guidance of a CRISC-certified risk management expert to assist your company to plan and implement an enterprise risk management (ERM) solution based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines.
Progent can help small companies to move all or part of their network infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. This can streamline network management and reduce hardware investments. Azure offers a comprehensive library of cloud services and Progent can help you to evaluate the advantages and restrictions of different cloud networking models you can use with Azure. Progent can show you how to administer cloud-based or hybrid cloud and local applications and resources and make sure that you sidestep the common errors small organizations make when moving to the cloud. Progent can help you to set up cloud servers on Azure Virtual Machines, use VHD storage with Azure Storage, handle user identity with Azure Active Directory, and create backup-and-recovery services with Azure Backup. Progent can also assist you to prepare firewalls and VPN tunnels and also to manage Apple iOS devices and Google Android smartphones and tablets.
Progent's software experts have worked for 20 years with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development system and can create or modernize .NET apps rapidly and affordably.
System Center Configuration Manager 2016 automates application and device provisioning and updating, centralizes security and compliance settings management, keeps track of network resources, protects against corporate data leakage, provides network health monitoring, enables secure end-user self service, and delivers a single control mechanism for administering multi-OS networks based on on-prem, cloud, or hybrid deployment architectures. Progent's Microsoft-certified Configuration Manager 2016 consultants and Azure cloud experts can assist businesses of any size with any facet of planning, implementing, operating and troubleshooting a SCCM 2016 solution for local, cloud-based, or hybrid networks.
SQL Server 2016 offers significant enhancements in speed, capacity, data security, availability, BOYD integration, and built-in analytics and reporting. New features include PolyBase for processing structured and unstructured files simultaneously for big data applications, Hadoop integration, Always Encrypted mode, Mobile Reports, and centralized management of local and cloud-based resources. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can deliver online and on-premises expertise to help businesses of any size to configure, administer or debug any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also help you to interface SQL Server 2016 with other key Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server, Exchange Server 2016, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP, Lync or Skype for Business, and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
Progent offers fast access to the expertise of seasoned Wi-Fi specialists who can help organizations to determine the value of Ubiquiti UniFi Wi-Fi access points for your company and assist you to design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your UniFi network. Progent can also carry out a Wi-Fi site survey to help you to select, provision, and place UniFi wireless APs for your required coverage and performance.
Progent's Check Point firewall experts can show you how to design, deploy, and administer firewall environments built around Check Point Software NGFW security gateways and Check Point's cloud-based security services. Progent's consultants can also help you support legacy Check Point firewalls or migrate efficiently to Check Point's modern security gateways.
Progent can assist small and mid-size organizations to set up endpoint security defense solutions and deliver mitigation expertise needed to support teleworkers.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes significant enhancements to the capabilities of its predecessor Exchange Server 2010 and delivers important new features as well as a revamped architecture. These improvements affect key areas such as ease of administration, high availability (HA), security, operational costs, teamwork, extensibility, throughput, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consulting professionals can help you understand the possible advantages of upgrading to Exchange Server 2013, design an efficient validation and deployment plan, and train your IT staff to maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent also offers ongoing remote consulting and management services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
Progent's Microsoft-expert consultants can assist your organization to update your desktops from 32 bits to 64 bits. Progent can help you to calculate the costs and benefits of moving to 64-bit desktop processing, plan an affordable migration process that minimizes business disruptions, and deliver inexpensive, expert online help to aid you to configure 64-bit PC desktop operating systems and applications on your current computers.
Progent offers a selection of network service packages for small businesses. These IT outsourcing and server monitoring solutions are built around the proactive problem handling abilities of Microsoft Operations Manager, a next-generation network and system support software platform that tracks the availability, throughput, and safety of your network and identifies incipient troubles before they can bring down your system. With Progent's affordably priced network support packages, small businesses can select a simple co-sourcing package based on Microsoft Operations Manager with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and remote troubleshooting or a comprehensive round-the-clock outsourcing solution.
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more performance than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist you to maintain your legacy PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also assist your company to design, deploy, optimize, administer and debug firewall solutions based on ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated library of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating crucial sales activities such as listings, orders, shipments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's vast online ecosystem and automating their sales, merchants can broaden their reach, lower their operating costs, improve reaction time to customers, and add to their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) developers can collaborate with your development staff and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can shorten development time and costs and speed up your return on investment.
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Progent's IT outsourcing services offer affordable network support for small organizations. Whether it involves planning system infrastructure, setting up an in-house Help Desk or using an outside one, rolling out a new e-mail platform, monitoring your system, or creating an on-line business application, outsourcing your IT technical services can contain expenses and minimize uncertainties, permitting IT support budgets to grow in a more linear and controlled manner than is possible by building up a bulky, knowledgeable internal network support organization. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers show how Progent can enable you to create a secure and highly available system foundation for your critical applications powered by Microsoft Windows including Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2000.
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide low-cost remote and onsite help to carry out your upgrade to Exchange Server 2010, generate thorough documentation of your upgraded messaging system, educate your network support staff and users to get them ramped up rapidly on Exchange Server 2010, and offer continuing management services and technical support. Progent's consultants can also help you upgrade from Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016.
Progent's Windows Server 2019 disaster recovery preparedness consultants can assist you to plan and deploy a DR/BC system built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools including Cluster Sets, Storage Replica, Storage Spaces Direct, VM Load Balancing, and Cloud Witness.
Progent's Power BI experts can assist you to design, deploy, maintain, update or troubleshoot your Power BI business analytics solution. Progent can also assist you to organize your source data for Power BI reports and dashboards. Progent can assist you implement and administer a local, cloud based, or hybrid network model to run Power BI.
Progent wants to find staff-level, solutions-driven Microsoft accredited engineers with Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer credentials; Cisco accredited system engineers with Cisco CCDP or CCIE certification; security consultants who have CISSP or CISA or equivalent security certification; and high-end network architecture consultants with experience in mobile solutions, wireless networking, high uptime, workplace recovery, information protection, and virtual servers. Progent also is looking for employees to join Progent's team of helpdesk service technicians and off-site troubleshooting experts. In addition, Progent is looking for talented managers able to perform effectively in Progent's fast-paced, virtual office environment.
Progent's Microsoft certified experts provide small and mid-size companies enterprise-class consulting support for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003. Systems Management Server is Microsoft's solution for change and configuration management. SMS 2003, a component of Microsoft System Center 200, allows companies to install important software quickly and reliably to specified workers, reduce product costs and adhere to licensing agreements by determining patterns of usage, improve Windows security by increasing your knowledge of weak points and by delivering targeted patches, manage your external workforce through industry standards independent of connection or geography, and lower operational expenses by fully exploiting the management functions built into Windows. Progent's SMS engineers can show you how to use SMS economically for automated software and application installation, security patch administration, and resource tracking management including software and hardware inventory.
Progent can help your business to evaluate the wealth of subscription options offered with Microsoft 365, previously branded Office 365, and integrate your information network with Microsoft 365 so you realize maximum business value. Progent offers expertise with multi-platform environments that incorporate Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux technology. Progent can also help your business to build and manage hybrid ecosystems that transparently integrate on-premises and cloud products and services.
If your company runs a UNIX or Linux environment or a mixed-platform IT environment, Progent's CISA and CISM-premier consultants can assist your entire organization in a broad array of security areas including security administration practices, security architecture and models, connection control systems and techniques, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, telecommunications, infrastructure and Internet security, and disaster recovery preparedness. CISA and CISM define the core competencies and international standards of performance that information security professionals are required to master. These certification give IT management the assurance that those who have earned their CISA or CISSP certification have demonstrated the background and theory to deliver world-class security support and consulting help.
Progent's expert consultants can help you design and implement a smooth in-place Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade strategy that avoids network disruption, simplifies ongoing support demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. For complex multiple server or multi-site migrations, Progent offers the knowledge and experience to complete your project rapidly and economically. Progent's Exchange 2007 help, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include expertise with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange Server 2007 that are best aligned to your business goals.
Progent's Windows Server 2019 disaster recovery preparedness consultants can assist you to design a disaster recovery solution based on Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools such as Cluster Sets, Storage Replica, Storage Spaces Direct, VM Load Balancing, and Cloud Witness.
Progent offers the part-time assistance of a seasoned Chief Information Officer to provide a broad perspective to help your company pick and support network technology appropriate for your present situation and that can be a firm basis for your future growth. Progent's part-time Chief Information Officer consulting services offer financial leverage to companies trying to optimize the impact of their IT expenditures but who are without the budget or hesitant to take on one more executive-level manager to their full-time staff. Because Progent is vendor-agnostic, with a sizable team of consultants certified to support all major OS platforms and connectivity technologies plus a broad range and business applications, Progent is in an ideal situation to provide objective advice as well as advanced technical help for developing information solutions that match the special requirements of your business.
VMware's NSX virtual network platform enables you to create complete logical networks in software. NSX permits virtual networks to be deployed instantly and managed with a high level of automation regardless of the physical components used by the basic IP network. VMware Site Recovery Manager allows programmatic recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site migration, failback and site re-protect. SRM also enables non-disruptive testing for site recovery, upgrades and fixes and can produce audit reports to verify full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove disaster recovery compliance. When integrated with VMware's NSX virtual network platform, VMware Site Recovery Manager can rapidly restore the entire virtualized network topology at the recovery datacenter. Progent offers the support of a VCDX certified VMware NSX consulting expert and VMware Site Recovery Manager system architect to help you to plan, configure, test and manage a DR solution based on VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware NSX.
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, formerly called SyteLine, is an ERP solution that incorporates more than a quarter century of experience helping manufacturing and service organizations to manage complicated supply chains and streamline critical processes in order to get products to market fast and meet customer schedules dependably. Progent can provide the skills of an ERP consultant with over two decades of background working with the SyteLine/CloudSuite Industrial platform. Progent offers remote or onsite services that can range from occasional guidance to comprehensive solution design and project management outsourcing or co-sourcing. Sample services offered by Progent for CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine include installation, migration, process improvement, application development, CPQ, web site integration, debugging, ETL, Excel and SQL integration, disaster recovery planning, and database administration.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint consultants offer affordable online and onsite consulting expertise, application development, and debugging support for businesses of all sizes who want to upgrade to SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online from prior releases of SharePoint.
Progent offers remote and on premises consulting to assist your organization with any aspect of business intelligence (BI) reporting from debugging or modernizing reports to planning and implementing a comprehensive BI environment. Progent's management reporting consultants can help you to support your current reporting system, assist you to migrate reports from a discontinued reporting platform to a modern one, and provide as-needed online mentoring to meet your individual requirements. Progent's business reporting professionals offer experience in all popular BI reporting and visualization platforms such as Microsoft's SQL Server business intelligence stack (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS), Microsoft Management Reporter/FRx, Office Access, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Power BI, Excel business analytics tools including Power Pivot and Power View, Report Designer and Report Builder.
Progent's CISSP-certified network security consultants can assist organizations of all sizes with any aspect of IT security. Progent can help implement cost-effective cybersecurity systems that protect a small office from modern threats or Progent can plan, configure, and monitor a comprehensive security environment for hybrid networks that support onsite, online, and mobile clients sharing network resources spread across multiple physical datacenters and various clouds.
MS Communications Server delivers Instant Messaging and Real Presence in an extensible, enterprise-grade solution offering advanced security, transparent compatibility with other Microsoft products, an extendable, standards-based development platform, and compliance with regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your enterprise can realize cost savings and improved operational efficiencies, increased individual productivity, and stronger IP security with this easy-to-administer, highly available solution. Effective implementations of Office Communications Server require careful planning and thought before installation. Progent's Microsoft-authorized professionals can deliver the skill necessary to realize all the advantages of Office Communications Server across your whole organization.
Cisco's Catalyst wireless controllers streamline the administration of wireless networks by unifying the provisioning and management of Wi-Fi access points, optimizing wireless performance by reducing the impact of RF congestion, enhancing Wi-Fi uptime with rapid failover, and strengthening security by detecting cyber threats and filtering network traffic based on user type and location. Progent can help you to deploy Cisco wireless LAN controllers to manage Wi-Fi LANs of any size. Progent can help you to maintain and troubleshoot your current Cisco-based Wi-Fi environment or carry out an efficient migration to Cisco's modern Wi-Fi controller solutions.
Progent's Experts Group offers consulting in important areas that include Macintosh networking and programs; Support for Linux, UNIX, and Sun environments; MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM consulting; Line-of-business and specialized program support; Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project logistics services; Special program development and deployment; Web site, eCommerce, EDI, and customer information portal development and integration; SQL support and efficiency help; Management information consulting; and Telecommunications architecture support.