Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist you to assess the benefits of Microsoft Exchange 2010 for your business and can assist you to plan and implement a smooth migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 from Exchange 2003 or Exchange Server 2007 that will provide fast return on investment by increasing your productivity, lowering the cost of hardware and service, streamlining management, and consolidating your key communications technologies.
important characteristics of Dynamics GP/Great Plains accounting include a modular structure that allows you to buy only the functionality you require, a standards-based architecture based on Microsoft technologies to safeguard your investment and provide a highly integrated environment, advanced reporting capabilities that allow you to monitor all activities, revenues and expenses and sales trends, compatibility with Microsoft Office to enable access to corporate information, the ability to integrate information from virtually any db software or workstation software into Microsoft Dynamics GP, plus an open design that makes it easy to create custom applications. Progent can help you set up and maintain a reliable, secure server and communications infrastructure to support Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains, and can provide expert GP support professionals to show you how to convert the powerful features of Dynamics GP/Great Plains accounting into a high-value business solution.
Microsoft allows you to create seamless hybrid environments that combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange systems. This permits you to have specific mailboxes hosted on your on-premises datacenter and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your organization with any phase of designing, integrating and debugging your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment. Progent's Exchange specialists can provide occasional support to help you resolve challenging technical bottlenecks and also offer extensive project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange initiative is successfully completed on schedule and within budget.
Cisco's PIX 500 firewalls have reached end of life and Cisco might not offer support these legacy devices. Progent continues to offer consulting support for Cisco's PIX firewalls to help you with maintenance and Progent can in addition help you determine whether to adopt next generation firewall technology available from Cisco. Progent's Cisco-certified experts can help you design and carry out a smooth upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X Series firewalls based on industry best practices.
Progent's Cisco Security/VPN consultants and CCIE and CCNP certified support staff can help your small or medium sized business deploy and support Cisco's security and Virtual Private Network technology such as routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators. Cisco Virtual Private Network products include both off-site connectivity and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software and Advanced Integrated Module hardware encryption cards, and hardware appliances, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or task-specific VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN products are simple to manage and offer the versatility to evolve with your growing business requirements. Progent's Cisco-Premier network experts support Cisco's complete family of hardware and software aimed at preventing information pilfering, virus and worm outbreaks, Denial of Service attacks, and other threats to your network. Progent can help you integrate Cisco products to get secure connectivity, intrusion protection, and full Identity services based on Cisco Access Control Server using RADIUS security and TACACS to establish a central client access control framework for user certification, authorization, and tracking from a graphical Web interface.
Progent's Meraki Wi-Fi access point consultants offer online and onsite support services to assist businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, maintain, upgrade or repair Wi-Fi networks that include Cisco Meraki APs. Progent can assist you to set up and support Meraki-based Wi-Fi networks for sites that range from a teleworker's home or a remote office all the way to a large campus or a multi-site enterprise. Progent can also assist you to integrate additional Cisco technology including switches, ASR routers and firewalls to create a seamless network infrastructure that provides the same connectivity, performance, security, ease of management and uptime for wired and wireless users regardless of their mobility or device.
Progent's Linux consulting experts provide small businesses and developers assistance with managing and maintaining Linux systems that run with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent offers your business access to Linux consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM and CISA certification. This broad range of experience provides you with a convenient one-stop consulting firm to show you how to create and manage a secure and reliable mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports Linux and Microsoft coexistence by combining Microsoft Windows with leading Linux derivatives such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security experts. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance consultants can provide support for all of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification including evaluating network security mechanisms, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server 2022 experts can help your company to design and implement a cost-effective upgrade to Windows Server 2022 using an on-premises system architecture or a hybrid model that combines cloud-based Windows Server on Azure with an on-site installation of Windows Server 2022.
Progent's professionals provide experience in a variety of technologies relevant to mobile networking such as network architecture, wireless data synchronization, wireless protection, wireless e-mail, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Research in Motion Blackberry, and wireless software programming. Progent's Microsoft certified professionals can save your organization time and money by applying their wireless experience to show you how to select and configure mobile access technologies that fit the needs of your company. Progent can also tune your IT architecture so that wireless data devices perform better.
Progent's ransomware consultants can help your business to evaluate your ransomware defenses, remotely monitor and guard your network, help with settlement negotiations with a threat actor, and restore a network victimized by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, LockBit or Nephilim.
Progent's Wireless Consulting Services provide a convenient, affordable option for businesses of any size to deploy, manage and repair cutting edge wireless network technology. For 802.11n and the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi environments, Progent can show you how to plan and install hardware like Cisco's Aironet and Meraki access points and wireless controllers. For mobile email and web-based business applications, Progent supports Apple iPhones, Apple iPads, Google Android smartphones, and Windows phones and tablets.
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner with special competencies such as Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Information Worker Solutions. Microsoft Certified Partners represent the most successful organizations who receive the top client satisfaction and are afforded the tightest operational relationship with Microsoft. The knowledge, capabilities, and dedication needed to achieve the status of Microsoft Certified Partner pays dividends to Progent's clients by enabling Progent to provide your business better technical solutions for your information network.
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you utilize Junos OS and the Junos platform of network management applications to configure, administer, and monitor Junos-powered devices; migrate to the Junos OS operating system from other Juniper software platforms such as ScreenOS; and upgrade your Juniper routers, switches, and gateways to the latest version of Junos OS.
Progent's certified SonicWall firewall experts can show you how to integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot SonicWall firewall/VPN appliances including the current SonicWall TZ, NSa and NSsp families of appliances and the older SonicWall PRO 2040 products. Progent's CISM and CISA-certified network security experts can help you incorporate SonicWall firewalls into a complete security solution and design protection into your corporate operations.
Small to mid-sized businesses can now enjoy all the advantages of System Center Operations Manager and also have quick access to Progent's Microsoft certified network support experts. With Progent's economically priced network service packages, mid-size businesses can choose a simple co-sourcing service program built around Operations Manager 2007 with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online troubleshooting or a comprehensive round-the-clock outsourcing solution. Progent offers expertise in System Center Operations Manager to provide small and midsize company networks world-class availability, protection and performance.
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive test given by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier network security audit consultant able to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding of information resources, and business continuity planning.
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Progent provides a variety of IT support packages for small organizations. These information technology outsourcing and network monitoring services are based on the anticipatory problem solving capabilities of System Center Operations Manager, a state-of-the-art network and system management product that tracks the reliability, performance, and safety of your network and isolates potential problems before they can bring down your network. With Progent's affordably priced IT support programs, small organizations can choose a basic co-sourcing service program based on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and remote troubleshooting or a complete 24x7 outsourcing package.
Progent's certified ISA Server 2004 consultants have long experience with Internet Security and Acceleration Server configuring Microsoft ISA Server-based security solutions for information systems with many offices, remote workers, and mission-critical eCommerce applications. Progent's ISA Firewall consultants can help your small business in planning and deploying an installation of ISA Server 2000 or ISA 2004 Server that supports your network protection requirements without overly restricting your IT system accessibility. Progent's consultants can help you upgrade from Microsoft Proxy Server from Microsoft ISA 2000 to Microsoft ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition Server, ISA 2004 Standard Edition Server, or other later versions of ISA Server.
Progent's Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 Access Point experts can provide economical remote and onsite support for Catalyst next-generation Wi-Fi 6 wireless access points.
Progent can provide the assistance of a certified VMware VCDX consultant to help your organization plan, configure, manage and repair VMware vSphere-based virtualization ecosystem for local networks, cloud environments, or hybrid systems. Progent can provide world-class knowledge for deploying and integrating VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and VMware's NSX network virtualization platform for disaster recovery and application continuity. Progent has extensive experience of VMware vCloud Director, vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vCloud Suite tools for administering private and public cloud and hybrid cloud environments that deliver maximum availability, data security, and application mobility.
Progent has two decades of experience helping small and mid-size companies to design, implement, optimize, administer, and debug IT networks that support teleworkers.
Progent can help your business to plan and execute a smooth transition from a UNIX-based IT environment to a network powered by Microsoft Windows and capable of supporting Microsoft's popular office productivity products, commercial applications, and developer tools. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco engineers and software development experts can show you how to guard your information and minimize productivity disruption by developing an efficient transition plan that preserves your existing assets in UNIX application and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows migration support expertise offered by Progent include evaluation of current infrastructure, migration planning and validation, MS Exchange migration expertise, data and application software migration, and server and media transition and economization.
Lync 2013, renamed Skype for Business, enables businesses of any size to create a centrally managed and protected communications environment that permits a BYOD computing model with instant messaging (IM), presence, audio/video and web conferencing with application sharing, as well as IP-based and PSTN telephony across a broad range of stationary PCs and mobile devices. Progent's certified Lync 2013 experts and system integrators can help your company to evaluate the business benefits of Lync 2013, design an on-premises, cloud-based (with Lync Online) or hybrid topology suitable for your present and long-term plans, deploy Lync 2013 so as to speed up your return on investment, and provide live online and on-premises training to your IT staff and end users. Progent offers in-depth expertise in critical pieces of a Lync Server 2013 deployment including Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server Express and Exchange Server, and Progent can help you to integrate Lync 2013 with key Office and Microsoft 365 apps such as Outlook and PowerPoint.
Progent's certified engineers can assist your company to assess Windows 7 to confirm application compatibility and to check its performance and reliability running in your environment. Progent's consultants can also show you how to evaluate the likely strategic advantages of adopting Windows 7. If Microsoft Windows 7 fits your business strategy, Progent can assist you to plan and carry out a non-disruptive migration to Microsoft Windows 7 from a an older release of Windows.
Cisco has developed an extensive product line of routers that includes appliances designed to provide the security, performance, and reliability required by customers from small offices to worldwide enterprises and service providers. Cisco routers feature support for redundancy, transparent failover, and redundant power for improved reliability and system uptime. Progent can help you select and integrate Cisco routers to build a reliable foundation for your network and to make it easy to expand as you support new users, start new offices, install new services, open your network to customers and partners, and manage a more mobile workforce. Progent offers expertise in a range of routers based on Cisco's IOS platform, including the Cisco 800 series of small business VPN routers, Cisco 2800 and 3800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1900 and 4000 Generation 2 ISR routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for wide area network edge applications, CRS Carrier Routing System for the network core, plus older 2500 and 2700 Series Routers.
Progent can provide the expertise of a veteran specialist with extensive experience configuring, maintaining, and upgrading immersive telepresence systems from top-tier suppliers including Cisco, TANDBERG, Polycom, and LifeSize. Progent can work with your internal network management group, your ISP, and your video conferencing technology vendor to help your company maximize the strategic value of your telepresence ecosystem.
Progent's application developers have worked for two decades with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development system and are able to create or modernize .NET apps quickly and at low cost.
ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM is Progent's network, server and endpoint remote monitoring managed service that incorporates state-of-the-art 24x7 remote monitoring and management (RMM) technology to keep your IT system running at peak levels by tracking the state of critical assets.
Progent's Linux support experts provide small companies and developers assistance with managing and supporting Linux computers that operate with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your business access to Linux experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM and CISA certification. This wide array of expertise offers you a convenient single consulting firm to show you how to create and maintain a secure and robust mixed-platform network and communications solution that supports Linux and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with leading Linux derivatives including RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Progent's Cisco-certified IP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco IP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers support for all models of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP devices to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also help your organization to integrate your IP phones with Unified CM, previously named CallManager, or with Unified CM Express to create a an advanced IP-PBX ecosystem for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can also assist you to install Unified CM applications such as Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Jabber, Unity Express (CUE) for voicemail, Mobile Connect for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent can deliver support with any facet of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, setting up SIP trunking, installing Cisco ISR routers with CUBE VoIP networking support, and creating Cisco UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony systems for survivability.
Cisco's security and remote access technology for small companies represent a complete line of manageable security solutions to help protect your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's VPN line features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who are able to help your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, Cisco Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi access points, and other Cisco security solutions that fit best with your business objectives.
Progent can assist small and mid-size businesses to configure network security defense solutions and provide cleanup expertise required for a remote workforce.
Cisco's wireless VoIP phones are hardened Wi-Fi devices designed for workers who are mobile within campus, warehouse, retail or other environments where IT management wants portable phones that provide more control, security and ruggedness than is possible with the Bring-Your-Own-Device style of mobile collaboration. Integration of Cisco's wireless VoIP phones typically requires that IT teams set up and fine tune many key pieces of your Wi-Fi infrastructure such as APs, routers, wireless LAN controllers, and network management software. Progent's certified experts offer online and onsite assistance to help you build and manage a Cisco wireless VoIP phone solution by delivering services that range from debugging the set up of a wireless IP phone or AP to offering project management outsourcing or co-sourcing for modernizing the wireless infrastructure of an entire campus.
Progent's short-term IT staffing services enable businesses to meet sudden increases in demand for IT professionals without incurring the expense and delays associated with vetting and recruiting experienced technical workers and without increasing your full-time workforce.
Progent's network engineers can assist your company to automate desktop update and patch management by providing expertise with administration platforms such as System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Systems Management Server, and Windows Server Update Services.
Progent's IT outsourcing services offer budget-friendly network consulting for small companies. Whether it includes planning system architecture, creating an internal Help Desk or outsourcing a one, rolling out an updated email system, monitoring your system, or creating a web-based business solution, outsourcing your network engineering services can reduce expenses and minimize uncertainties, allowing IT service budgets to increase in a more moderate and controlled manner than is feasible by building up a bulky, all-purpose in-house IT staff. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and flyers explain how Progent can help you create a secure and robust system architecture for your critical applications powered by Windows.
NetDocuments (NetDocs) is a leading cloud-based document management system designed for the legal profession. Progent offers remote access to NetDocuments consultants who can help legal departments and law firms to design, deploy, manage, optimize, or debug a document management system (DMS) solution based on NetDocuments.
Progent provides network support for medium size companies with 100 to 250 system users. The medium size business or work group has typically been an underserved part of the market for network consulting expertise. The cost structures and service delivery models of major third-party service organizations make them excessively costly for the ordinary mid-size company or small medium business (SMB), which commonly has a modest information technology budget with which to maintain an information network whose complexity and sophistication are frequently comparable to the information systems of far larger enterprises. Progent's service delivery model, which takes great advantage of remote service, virtual office infrastructure and 24x7 server monitoring, dramatically lowers the network maintenance expenses of a small-medium business while offering the mid-size company with enterprise-level service from professional, IT experts knowledgeable in a wide array of midsized business network solutions. If your medium size organization or small business is searching for levels of network support needed by a mid-size office without paying enterprise costs, contact Progent.
Progent's seasoned ransomware recovery consultants can help your business to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware attack like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Conti or Egregor.
Cisco's Firepower NGFWs Firewalls deliver a major performance improvement compared to Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X firewalls and offer unified management and automation of modern security capabilities like application visibility and control, next-generation intrusion protection with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, and sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE firewall consultants can assist you to design and execute an efficient upgrade to Cisco Firepower Series firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX firewalls and show you how to integrate Firepower firewalls with Cisco's subscription-based security services to build and centrally control IT environments that include branch offices, data centers, private clouds and public clouds.
Progent offers nationwide remote phone support and consulting services for businesses who operate Apple Mac OS X environments or whose IT systems feature a mix of Apple macOS and Mac OS X with Microsoft products. Progent's engineers can provide macOS and Mac OS X users a range of services including desktop assistance, upgrading to the current edition of Mac OS X from earlier editions of macOS and Mac OS X, plus help with macOS and Mac OS X applications. Progent can also assist you with Apple iPhone and Apple iPad synchronization and troubleshooting, or migrating to iCloud services. Online IT help offers maximum return for your information technology dollar by extending user productivity and limiting the time charged for computer repair services. Sophisticated remote support utilities and experienced service specialists and consultants combine to enable Progent to solve most network issues without wasting time and money by going to your location. In the vast majority of cases your network issues can be dealt with by telephone or via a combination of telephone support and online connectivity. Progent can make available Cisco CCIE infrastructure experts and CISM certified security specialists to assist with the most difficult network problems.
Progent's Symantec consultants can assist you to maintain discontinued Symantec firewall and Symantec VPN appliances such as the Raptor and VelociRaptor line or help you upgrade to current firewall/VPN solutions. Progent can also help you create and execute a comprehensive security plan that can incorporate firewall/VPN appliances and utilities, managed security and network protection services, system monitoring products, and formal policies and enforcement procedures. Progent has the skill to be your single source for on-going network support, maintenance, training, and security consulting.
Progent's Cisco Jabber consultants can provide remote or onsite expertise to assist organizations of all sizes to plan, implement, maintain, upgrade or debug Cisco Jabber environments and Cisco Unified CM infrastructure. Progent can provide in-depth expertise for all the technologies that go into building an end-to-end Cisco Jabber solution such as Cisco network appliances and management tools, Microsoft 365 applications, Windows and Mac desktops, Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones, SIP trunking, WiFi networks, cyber security, cloud integration, immersive telepresence systems, PBX products, business continuity, and the many other components of a modern collaboration ecosystem.
Progent utilizes the Flexential Tampa colocation center mainly to deliver private cloud hosting. Progent maintains a group of network consultants based in the Tampa area, and Progent also offers online support from Progent's nationwide roster of Microsoft-certified experts, Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers, CISM and CISSP-certified security consultants, Hyper-V and VMware virtualization specialists, and veteran disaster recover preparedness experts. Progent can also help you to plan and execute a migration to the Flexential data center with services such as designing solution architecture, specifying hardware components, system configuration and validation, debugging, streamlining online network management, and educating your IT support team.
Progent's Symantec consultants can assist you to support discontinued Symantec firewall and Symantec VPN appliances such as the Raptor and VelociRaptor line or show you how to migrate to newer firewall solutions. Progent can also help you create and implement a comprehensive security strategy that can include firewall and VPN devices and utilities, managed security and network protection services, system monitoring products, and documented policies and processes. Progent has the skill to be your single resource for on-going network support, administration, training, and security expertise.
Progent's IT outsourcing packages provide economical computer support for small companies. Whether it includes designing network architecture, setting up an internal Help Desk or outsourcing a one, rolling out an updated email platform, monitoring your network, or developing an on-line business solution, outsourcing your network technical services can reduce costs and minimize risks, allowing IT service expenses to increase in a more linear and controlled fashion than is possible by assembling a bulky, knowledgeable internal IT staff. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets explain how Progent can enable you to create a secure and robust network foundation for your vital applications based on Windows.
Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can plan, configure, and manage a deployment of 365 Total Backup to back up and restore your Microsoft 365 user and group mailboxes, files residing on your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint Document Libraries, Teams Chats, plus files on Windows-powered endpoints.
Progent has a long background providing a broad range of remote IT consulting and emergency repair services to local governments and schools across the United States. Progent is one of the pioneers in providing advanced remote network support and has delivered IT support to clients in all 50 states. Remote support saves travel expenses and solves problems faster than onsite service calls.
Progent's Duo managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices.
Progent is a Microsoft Certified Partner and has earned special competencies that include Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Information Worker Solutions. Microsoft Certified Partners represent the elite organizations who earn the top client satisfaction and are afforded the closest operational relationship with Microsoft. The knowledge, skills, and commitment required to achieve the level of Microsoft Certified Partner pays dividends to Progent's clients by enabling Progent to provide your company better support for your IT network.