Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you evaluate the economic justification for deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2007, advise you on the most appropriate version of Microsoft SharePoint for your application, provide configuration and integration services, assist you to install MS SQL Server as a back-end database, optimize your network integrity, integrate your standard and customized application programs to work with SharePoint 2007, develop a company-wide security strategy that encompasses portal technology, and provide troubleshooting and Help Desk support.
Microsoft System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager provides near-continuous backup and simplified recovery capabilities for Microsoft-based networks. SCDPM 2016 delivers application-aware backup for key platforms such as Microsoft SQL, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server, backs up Windows and Linux virtual machines, works with virtual machines hosted by Hyper-V and VMware, and can use Azure for easy-to-manage cloud backup and recovery. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist businesses of any size to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot an enterprise-wide backup/restore solution powered by Data Protection Manager 2016. Progent can assist you to migrate from a previous version of DPM or from a legacy system, and Progent can optimize your DPM 2016 ecosystem for on premises, colocated, cloud-based or hybrid deployment models. Progent can provide remote or onsite support and can provide as-needed guidance to resolve technical bottlenecks or provide end-to-end project management support to help you complete your SCDPM 2016 initiative on schedule and on budget.
Progent can show you how to prepare and execute a smooth migration to Microsoft Dynamics GP so that you retain your data, improve your security, modernize your analytics, take complete advantage of Microsoft Office integration, and minimize business disruption by creating and executing a smart migration plan. Progent can also help educate new Dynamics GP/Great Plains users so you don't waste productivity. Progent can improve your financial reports and management analytics by providing Crystal Reports consulting, FRx assistance, and Microsoft Excel support. Progent's background with Microsoft .NET technology, Microsoft SQL Server solutions, and designing with VBasic, XML and other tools make it possible to create specialized business software and eCommerce solutions that integrate transparently with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Cisco has developed an extensive product line of routers that includes routers designed to deliver the protection, bandwidth, and availability demanded by customers from small offices to worldwide enterprises. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, automatic failthrough, and redundant power for improved fault tolerance and system availability. Progent can show you how to select and integrate Cisco routers to establish a solid infrastructure for your IT system and to make it economical to expand as you add new users, open new offices, deploy new services, extend your network to customers and partners, and manage a more mobile workforce. Progent can provide help with a range of routers based on Cisco's IOS operating system, such as Cisco's 800 family of small office routers, Cisco 2800 and 3800 ISR routers, Cisco 1900 and 4000 Generation 2 ISR routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 routers for WAN edge environments, CRS Carrier Routing System for core Networks, as well as older 1700 and 2600 Routers.
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's disaster recovery consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical data.
The Progent Test and Training Lab located at the QTS (formerly Herakles) Data Center can be used for piloting line-of-business applications, creating efficient system upgrade procedures, evaluating and optimizing performance, planning or verifying business continuity solutions, resolving compatibility issues, and building training environments for new technologies. For Progent customers without adequate in-house resources to configure effective test systems, the lab cuts capital costs and engineering risk and helps keep critical IT projects on schedule.
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) provide a major performance boost compared to Cisco's popular ASA 5500-X security appliances and include unified control of advanced security capabilities like application visibility and control (AVC), next-generation intrusion protection with intelligent prioritization of risks, advanced malware protection (AMP), DDoS mitigation, and multi-node sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified firewall experts can help you to design and execute an efficient upgrade to Cisco Firepower firewalls from Cisco's from ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX firewalls and show you how to integrate Firepower appliances with Cisco's subscription-based security services to build and centrally manage network ecosystems that span branch offices, data centers, private clouds and public clouds.
Lync Server 2013, renamed Skype for Business, allows organizations of any size to build a centrally managed and protected communications environment that permits the modern BYOD computing model with instant messaging (IM), presence, audio/video and web conferencing with app sharing and whiteboard, and both IP-based and PSTN calling across a broad assortment of stationary PCs and mobile clients. Progent's certified Lync Server 2013 experts and network architects can assist you to assess the advantages of Lync 2013, design an on-premises, cloud-resident (with Lync Online) or hybrid model appropriate for your current and long-term goals, implement Lync 2013 in a way that expedites your return on investment, and deliver live webinar and onsite training to your management team and end users. Progent offers expertise in key components of a Lync 2013 solution that include Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server Express and Exchange Server, and Progent can assist your organization to integrate Lync 2013 with key Microsoft 365 applications including Outlook clients and PowerPoint.
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your servers, endpoints printers and scanners, network appliances like switches and Wi-Fi APs, and IoT devices like sensors and health monitors.
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner with accredited competencies that include Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Information Worker Solutions. Microsoft Certified Partners represent the most successful organizations who earn the top customer endorsement and are afforded the tightest working relationship with Microsoft. The understanding, skills, and commitment required to earn the level of Microsoft Certified Partner benefits Progent's customers by enabling Progent to offer your company more complete solutions for your information system.
Progent's Wireless Consulting Services provide a fast, affordable way for companies of all sizes to deploy, manage, monitor and repair advanced wireless network technology. For 802.11n and the latest 802.11ac wireless networks, Progent can show you how to plan and deploy hardware like Cisco's Aironet and Meraki access points and wireless controllers. For mobile email and web-based applications, Progent can help with Apple IOS iPhones, Apple iPads, Google Android smartphones, and Windows smartphones and tablets.
Progent can provide the part-time or temporary services of a seasoned CIO to offer a broad perspective to assist your company pick and support IT solutions to meet your present situation and that can serve as a firm basis for your growth. Progent's part-time or temporary CIO services offer economic advantages to companies who want to maximize the impact of their IT expenditures but who are without the budget or hesitant to add one more executive-level position to their head count. Because Progent is vendor-agnostic, with a large team of consultants certified to maintain all leading operating systems and networking technologies plus a broad range and business applications, Progent is in an ideal situation to offer unbiased advice as well as advanced technical support for creating information solutions that fit the special needs of your business.
Progent has over 20 years of background deploying, and supporting the key components included with Microsoft System Center and can help your organization to design, deploy, support, and fix your System Center 2012 R2 solution to optimize the availability and performance of your critical IT resources across multiple Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems and on-premises and Cloud-connected datacenters. Progent can assist your organization to upgrade to the latest edition of Microsoft System Center from an older release or from a third-party IT management solution to deliver the advantages of enterprise-class provisioning, automation, security and compliance, plus infrastructure and critical application availability and performance monitoring.
Progent can help small and medium-size businesses to implement collaboration applications to make it easy for their at-home workers to benefit from productive interaction with fellow workers and customers.
Progent's CCIE-certified network infrastructure experts can provide high-level support services for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (previously CallManager). Progent can help you to integrate VoIP phones, design dial plans, configure SIP trunking and PSTN connections, deploy ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server high availability systems.
Progent's Citrix experts can assist you to assess the potential strategic value of the various editions of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, assist you to integrate Citrix administration tools in your Microsoft Hyper-V environment, and show you how you can use Citrix Essentials to improve the responsiveness, uptime, flexibility, and fault tolerance of your virtual environment while lowering the cost of equipment and support and simplifying management processes.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist organizations of all sizes to assess Windows 10 or to migrate to Windows 10 from an older release of Microsoft Windows. Remote and on-premises assessment and upgrade services for Microsoft Windows 10 offered by Progent's experts include Return on Investment estimates, project supervision, compatibility testing, test lab systems, Hyper-V virtualization strategies, Cloud solutions, mobile management, telecommuter access, data and identity security, automated deployment and administration, network infrastructure design, wired/wireless convergence, business continuity planning, custom training for network management staff and users, and ongoing consulting support.
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Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your servers, such as scanners, network appliances such as switches and Wi-Fi access points, and IoT devices such as alarms and health monitors.
Progent's application developers have worked for 20 years with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development environment and are able to create or modernize .NET applications rapidly and at low cost.
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 incorporates major improvements in key areas including performance, uptime, compliance, and cloud readiness. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the first version of SQL Server that includes in-memory technology that operates transparently across all workloads including Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), enterprise data warehousing, and business analytics. Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2014 consulting team can deliver efficient online and onsite services such as planning, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and software development services to help businesses of all sizes to achieve maximum business value from their SQL Server 2014 deployment.
Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can plan, configure, and manage an implementation of 365 Total Backup to safeguard your Microsoft 365 mailboxes, files residing on your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint Document Libraries, user and group Teams Chats, plus files on Windows-powered laptops and desktops.
Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have long backgrounds configuring Microsoft ISA Server-based security installations for information systems with multiple sites, mobile users, and line-of-business web applications. Progent's Microsoft Firewall consultants can assist your company in planning and deploying an installation of ISA 2000 Server or ISA 2004 Server that supports your network security needs without adversely restricting your IT system accessibility. Progent's consulting professionals can help you upgrade from Microsoft Proxy Server from Microsoft ISA 2000 to ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or Microsoft ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
Progent's Palo Alto Networks firewall consultants can show you how to choose, deploy, and manage Palo Alto Networks firewall appliances to create a next-generation cybersecurity environment that extends across your data center and cloud-based assets and protects any user anywhere with any endpoint device.
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity provides small and mid-size businesses a reliable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, remote, multi-site, and cloud environments and also enables cost-effective cloud backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This creates tamper-proof backup data that cannot be modified by anyone including root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a wide range of online or on-premises consulting services to assist you to design, install, optimize and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup technology.
Progent offers cost-effective online and on-premises consulting to help companies to migrate any portion of their core network infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save management hassle and equipment expense and allow access to Google's cutting edge machine learning technology. Progent can help your IT team with every phase of Google Cloud Platform integration including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, system design and review, pilot testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, licensing management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security and compliance.
Progent can help your organization to plan an upgrade to Teams from Skype for Business and install, manage, and troubleshoot a cloud-based or hybrid deployment of Microsoft Teams. Progent can assist you to connect Teams with Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange, SharePoint, and your phone infrastructure.
Progent offers the guidance of a CRISC-certified risk management consultant to help your company to design and implement an enterprise risk management (ERM) strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget.
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious achievement that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier network security audit professional able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protection of data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.
Progent can help you to plan and administer cost-effective environments that support Windows and Linux systems and apps in both cloud-only systems or in hybrid topologies that seamlessly combine on-premises IT assets along with one or more public cloud services. To help you to integrate public clouds with physical datacenters, Progent can provide a variety of cloud migration services that include Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and integration consulting, Amazon AWS cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service development and debugging. Progent has two decades of experience delivering advanced consulting support remotely, and Progent can make sure you complete your cloud migration initiatives quickly and within your budget.
Progent's certified security experts can run NodeZero-powered PEN tests to make sure your security defense systems and policies are correctly configured and effective.
Progent offers nationwide online technical support and consulting services for businesses that operate networks powered by versions of the Linux OS or whose information systems include a combination of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft technology. Online network consulting offers maximum leverage for your IT budget by protecting user efficiency and limiting the time charged for network analysis and repair. Sophisticated remote access utilities and experienced service specialists and engineers allow Progent to handle the majority of IT problems without wasting time and expense by traveling to your site. In the vast majority of cases your IT issues can be remediated over the phone or through a combination of telephone support and online connectivity. Progent can make available Cisco CCIE infrastructure experts and CISSP and ISSAP premier security professionals to assist you with the toughest system problems.
Progent's Check Point Software firewall consultants can help you plan, integrate, and manage firewall solutions built around Check Point NGFW firewalls and Check Point's cloud-based security services. Progent's consultants can also help you support legacy Check Point firewall models or upgrade efficiently to Check Point's next-generation firewalls.
Altaro VM Backup from Hornetsecurity offers small organizations a dependable and affordable solution for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, offsite, multi-site, and cloud architectures and also enables low-cost backup to Microsoft Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup defends against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This creates tamper-proof backup data that cannot be modified by any user including administrators. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a wide array of remote or on-premises consulting services to help you to plan, install, manage and troubleshoot a modern backup and disaster recovery solution powered by Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a managed backup/recovery service powered by on Altaro VM Backup technology.
Cisco's security and remote connectivity solutions for small to medium sized businesses represent a full array of easy-to-administer protection hardware and software to let you protect your entire information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line includes routers and switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and Virtual Private Network solutions. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can help your company to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your corporate goals.
Progent's Cisco-certified Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E Access Point consultants offer affordable remote and onsite help for Catalyst next-generation Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E wireless access points (WAPs).
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 features outstanding levels of speed, security, fault tolerance, scalability, and flexibility that improve productivity of local, remote, and mobile workers. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can provide affordable remote consulting, technical support, and training services to help you to plan, execute, and manage Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 to add substantial strategic value to your information system.
Progent's Meraki wireless access point consultants offer remote and on-premises support to assist businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, manage, upgrade or troubleshoot Wi-Fi systems that include Cisco Meraki APs. Progent can assist you to configure and support Cisco's Meraki-based wireless infrastructure for sites that range from a telecommuter's home or a remote office to a large campus or a nationwide enterprise. Progent can also assist you to configure additional Cisco products such as Catalyst and Nexus switches, routers and ASA firewalls to build a seamless ecosystem that provides the same connectivity, responsiveness, security compliance, ease of management and availability for wired and wireless users irrespective of their mobility or computing device.
Our compensation structure is built on revenue sharing, so just like working as an independent contractor, your income is entirely driven by your generated revenue. Some of our consultants stress quality of life and choose to work at an easy pace, utilizing our flexible schedule to follow personal enthusiasms such as mountain biking, motorcycle racing, skiing, fishing, vacations, or sharing private time with family and friends. Other consultants take advantage of the chance to make big dollars via lots of work and long hours. Progent completely encourages both ends of the spectrum and any point in the middle.
Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified risk management expert to help you to plan and deploy an enterprise risk management (ERM) strategy following best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget.
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology from SentinelOne to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against known and novel ransomware crypto-worms such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Conti or Egregor.
Progent's Microsoft engineers offer in-depth expertise in deploying, operating and debugging any edition of Microsoft Project Server and can provide a broad range of affordable online consulting services based on proven best practices to help businesses of any size to receive all the advantages of this leading platform. Support services available from Progent include system design, software configuration and migration, setting up secure collaboration among local and remote or mobile users, network optimization, and customized webinar training classes.
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi technology experts can assist organizations to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business 100/300/500 Wi-Fi APs.
In performing consulting projects for enterprise customers, Progent follows a phased methodology based on specified milestones so as to achieve financial, timing and engineering targets while minimizing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Methodology utilizes industry project management procedures derived from the best practices described by the Microsoft MSF methodology which includes requirements definition, architecture recommendations, test models, design adjustments, and expert implementation. All phases are recorded to make available a detailed summary of technical services performed and to help in downstream network support.
Progent's high availability inter-site connectivity and 24x7 system connection consultants can help small organizations achieve fault tolerant Interoffice connectivity by means of fully redundant networks featuring automatic failover. Progent's CCIE engineers can plan and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on zero-downtime EIGRP routers or fault tolerant OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how multi-path connections and transparent fail-over offers affordable non-stop interoffice connectivity.
SQL Server 2005 offers indispensable, standardized tools to IT professionals and information workers, reducing the complexity of creating, integrating, managing, and accessing enterprise data and database programs on platforms ranging from mobile devices to corporate data networks. The sophistication and interconnectivity requirements of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for an IT consultant with hands-on expertise and wide knowledge in designing and building information-based, end-to-end business IT applications. The knowledge and experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified engineering staff, with an average of more than 10 years of background involving Microsoft integration, assures you success in designing, deploying and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Online experts can provide affordable online and onsite consulting expertise, application development, and technical support services for organizations of any size who intend to migrate to SharePoint 2019 or SharePoint Online from earlier versions of SharePoint. Progent can assist you plan and carry out a cost-effective upgrade to SharePoint 2019 on prem, SharePoint Online, or a hybrid network model that incorporates local and cloud components into a seamless information management system.
Progent's Citrix-authorized consultants can help you to evaluate the strategic advantages of XenServer as well as other Citrix products, and can assist your IT organization to design, validate, execute, troubleshoot, and maintain a XenServer installation. Progent can also assess your existing XenServer deployment and help you to enhance consolidation, responsiveness, protection, uptime, and recoverability.
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and endpoint monitoring managed service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management technology to help keep your IT system operating at peak levels by checking the state of vital devices that drive your IT network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers an issue, an alert is transmitted immediately to your designated IT personnel and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so all looming problems can be resolved before they have a chance to impact productivity.
Progent's Duo service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices.
Progent's expertise delivering Microsoft .NET support and Microsoft SQL Server help, and Progent's programming experience with Microsoft VBasic, XML, and other developer platforms make it possible to design specialized mission-critical applications and eCommerce environments that integrate transparently with Microsoft Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Dynamics GP management reporting consultants can show you how to create reports that let you analyze your business more thoroughly, transforming uncooked data into valuable understanding of your company and customers.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to evaluate the advantages of Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, create pilot environments and rollout strategies, tune your network for on-premises, multi-location, cloud-based, and hybrid environments, educate your IT management staff, develop an enterprise-wide security strategy, automate network administration, assist with application development, and build and test a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Progent's Data Center professionals can help you select fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific requirements of your company. High availability colocation sites are particularly attractive to small businesses because of their affordability and convenience compared to taking a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to design an in-house data center with even a minimum level of fault tolerance is too costly for typical small organizations. Progent is ready to show you how to get all the benefits of non-stop data centers and 24x7 colo sites by providing a complete range of consulting and support services.