Expanding your at-home workforce can have a major impact on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and company culture. Progent has two decades of experience helping SMBs to design, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can assist your Petaluma organization to select the appropriate technologies and follow leading practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you over challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can assist Petaluma, California organizations to with any facet of building a high-performing work-from-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk augmentation, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the network infrastructure needed to support an at-home workforce can be particularly challenging if you have to manage a mix of worker-owned hardware such as PCs and laptops, Internet routers, and wireless APs from various vendors and with a mix of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's background delivering remote help for both outdated as well as modern IT products in virtual office venues enables you to make efficient use of your available infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for making necessary updates. Support services available from Progent to help your company to create a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:
VoIP Solutions for Telecommuters
Extending the corporate phone environment to accommodate telecommuters is vital to supporting a productive at-home workforce. A broad range of cloud-centric VoIP products are popular with SMBs to support telecommuters. Many larger organizations rely on Cisco's modern or legacy products for VoIP solutions. Progent can assist businesses of any size to design or tune a telecommuter IP voice environment that delivers the flexibility, transparency and protection needed for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE IP Voice experts offer advanced support to assist organizations tune their existing Cisco VoIP systems to support an expanding remote workforce.
Video Conferencing for Telecommuters
A broad range of voice/video conferencing products from major vendors enable virtual discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat sessions, and screen/content sharing for both local users and at-home workers. Many companies utilize multiple products to meet the needs of their various partners and customers. Progent can help your organization to manage your current conferencing environment and enhance the experience of your remote employees.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office and Microsoft 365 suites, offering a powerful environment of productivity apps that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information throughout a corporate network and on a broad range of endpoints. Progent has delivered remote consulting services for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange since their original publication and can help your company to configure these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize the productivity of your at-home workers.
SharePoint uses web sites to enable collaboration and information delivery by providing policy-based delivery of content, workflow, and tools for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint allows you to create protected web portals that permits at-home workers to see and edit aggregated business intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts. To learn about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, visit SharePoint configuration and application development consulting.
Exchange and Exchange Online offer secure collaboration features including public folders, shared mailboxes, and shared calendars and contacts. Progent's Microsoft certified Exchange experts can show you how to activate and utilize these features for your at-home workers. To find out about Progent's Exchange consulting services, see planning and configuration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s shared cloud file hosting and synchronization service, comparable to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can save files to the OneDrive service, and co-workers can share them safely via a browser. Included with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows home workers to jointly author documents. Revisions made offline are synced when you reconnect to the Internet. To find out about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft OneDrive, go to Onedrive configuration experts.
Cloud Integration for Remote Workers
Progent can provide fast and affordable online support for helping businesses to create, manage and optimize integrated network models that include physical data centers, telecommuters, branches, and public cloud resources. Progent can provide expertise for all types of public cloud service delivery such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help telecommuters fix issues with public cloud connectivity, authentication, and cybersecurity.
Azure is a popular family of public cloud software and services that allows you to use IT infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical apps running on Microsoft's massive cloud. Azure offers more than one hundred services services including the ability to host Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines, scalable cloud storage, messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Progent can help you to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity management with Azure AD, and plan backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also help you establish protected connections to Azure for telecommuters by configuring and troubleshooting firewall appliances and VPN tunnels. For details about Progent's expertise for Azure, refer to Azure consulting services.
Office 365, rebranded Microsoft 365, is Microsoft's popular family of business productivity software and cloud services available by subscription. Microsoft applications and services are provided in a variety of plans designed for users ranging from students and households to large corporations. Progent can provide fast and easy remote access to experts knowledgeable about Microsoft 365-compatible endpoint devices running Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent can help your business to evaluate the various subscription plans offered with Office 365 and deploy 365 applications for your teleworkers in a way that delivers top business value. To find out about Progent's support services for Microsoft Office 365, go to Microsoft Office 365 consulting support.
Exchange Online is one of the most widely used applications in the Office 365 product line. Exchange Online provides the advantages of reduced spending for data center infrastructure, simplified management, dynamic scaling, high availability, and other advantages associated with public clouds. Microsoft has engineered Exchange Online to run seamlessly with on-premises Exchange environments, allowing customers to create hybrid cloud/onsite networks. Progent's Exchange consultants are available for as-needed help to get you past challenging technical roadblocks and can also provide end-to-end project management services to ensure your telecommuters have convenient and safe access to your Exchange Online deployment. For details Progent's consulting services for Exchange Online, visit Office 365 Exchange Online integration and troubleshooting consulting.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a trailblazer in the public cloud arena and is the industry's leading provider of cloud-based services. Progent can provide quick and affordable online contact with cloud integration consultants who can help your business to plan, implement, maintain, and debug hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud services with on-premises data centers and with other public clouds such as Microsoft Azure. Progent also offers the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to assist your company to create a high-availability network architecture to make sure your users have a productive computing experience whether they are working from your main office, a remote branch, from home, or on the road. For details about Progent's support services for Amazon AWS, go to Amazon AWS integration support.
Google Cloud is a leading set of public cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can help you to scale your existing IT assets with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's database experts can help you make your key apps cloud ready so your at-home workers can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent can help your business to set up virtual machines on GCP Compute Engine, plan an efficient storage solution with Google Cloud Storage services, and streamline identity management for telecommuters with Google Cloud Identity services. Progent can also help you to use GCP's unified management tools to control and monitor your Google Cloud ecosystem. For information, refer to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consulting support.
Help Desk Call Center Support for Remote Workers
A sudden, company-wide switchover to a from-home workforce, which might be the result of a pandemic or as part of a business continuity preparedness plan, can overwhelm even the most efficient internal Help Desk. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services make it possible for organizations to outsource or supplement their Support Desk by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center services.
Security and Compliance for Teleworkers
At-home workers often run their personal computers and work in a physically unsecured space. This increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires careful use of security appliances, remote security monitoring, and the enforcement of policies in compliance with leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of certified data security professionals can assist your business to design, deploy and manage a modern cybersecurity environment that protects sensitive data in networks that incorporate telecommuters.
Data Protection Solutions for Telecommuters
Data Protection covers backing up and recovering vital information so as to avoid data loss and minimize restoration time in case of storage system problems resulting from hardware breakdowns, programming hiccups, operator mistakes, malware, or any other reason. Dependable data protection strategies can be particularly challenging to design and maintain in hybrid environments that combine in-house data centers, public clouds, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for At-Home Workers
Microsoft has rebranded and rebundled its endpoint management platforms under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud management of mobile and remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing local computers. Endpoint Manager features a unified environment for protecting critical information by controlling local, mobile, and at-home endpoints.
Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also features Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and protecting remote devices and software. Managed endpoint computers can be personally owned or business owned. IT administrators managing the enrolled endpoint devices of teleworkers can utilize Intune to deploy and validate apps on devices, push patches and certificates, configure rules for accessing information and networks, manage passwords, establish VPN connections, determine how home-based workers share information, set up threat defense, ensure compliance, and wipe sensitive data from lost, stolen or deactivated devices. Microsoft Intune runs with Apple iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS endpoints. To find out about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can assist your company to use this platform to manage the endpoint computers of your telecommuters, refer to Intune teleworker device management experts.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized MDM platform that allows network administrators to keep off-premises endpoint devices up to date and protected. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch technology for centralized endpoint administration plus VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery technology for access control, application management, and setup management of endpoints. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints powered by Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-site deployment through a one-time purchase. Top capabilities of Workspace ONE include fast remote provisioning of out-of-the-box laptops, immediate onboarding of new users, policy set up and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies reporting and performance analytics, email encryption, and seamless integration with Microsoft applications and cloud services. For details about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, go to VMware Workspace ONE remote device management consultants.
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