Expanding your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on network architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of background helping SMBs to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can assist your Salinas company to pick the right technologies and follow best practices in creating and operating a safe virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and returns top value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you over challenging IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can assist Salinas, California businesses to with any facet of building a high-performing work-at-home environment by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.
Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure required for a remote work environment can be especially complicated if you must accommodate a combination of personal hardware like desktop computers and laptops, routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from various vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's background providing online support for both legacy and modern technologies in virtual office solutions allows you to make cost-effective use of your available network infrastructure and offers fast access to expertise for making essential updates. Support services available from Progent to assist you to implement a productive work-at-home ecosystem include:
VoIP Integration for Remote Workers
Expanding the corporate PBX system to accommodate teleworkers is critical to supporting an effective at-home workforce. A broad range of cloud-centric IP voice platforms are used by SMBs to server remote users. Many enterprises depend on Cisco's current or older platforms for IP voice solutions. Progent can assist businesses of all sizes to design or tune a telecommuter IP voice environment that provides the flexibility, convenience and protection required for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE IP Voice experts offer advanced support to assist businesses optimize their existing Cisco IP voice environments to handle an expanding remote workforce.
Video Conferencing for an At-Home Workforce
A broad selection of video conferencing products from major vendors support virtual discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat sessions, and content sharing for both onsite users and telecommuters. Many organizations use a mix of products to meet the needs of their various partners and clients. Progent's communications experts can assist your organization to manage your current voice/video conferencing environment and enhance the experience of your remote employees.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Software for Telecommuters
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are closely integrated with Microsoft's popular Office families, offering a powerful ecosystem of productivity apps that create a cohesive user experience for sharing data and ideas throughout a corporate network and on a wide range of endpoint computers. Progent has delivered remote consulting services for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server since their first publication and can help businesses to deploy these flagship collaboration products to maximize the effectiveness of your remote workforce.
SharePoint utilizes web sites to promote collaboration and information delivery by providing policy-driven delivery of content, workflow, and tools for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint allows you to build secure portals that permits remote workforce to see and edit consolidated business intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts. To learn about Progent's SharePoint expertise, go to SharePoint integration 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 learn about Progent's Exchange support services, refer to planning and configuration expertise for Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s shared cloud storage service, similar to GoogleDrive. At-home users can store files to the OneDrive service, and colleagues anywhere can share them securely through a browser. Included with Office 365, OneDrive enables home employees to co-author files. Edits created offline are uploaded when you go back online. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft OneDrive, see Onedrive integration experts.
Public Cloud Integration Services for At-Home Workers
Progent offers fast and affordable online assistance for helping organizations to create, maintain and troubleshoot integrated network architectures that include physical data centers, remote workers, branches, plus cloud services. Progent can provide expertise for all modes of cloud service such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Progent can help at-home workers fix issues with cloud access, authentication, and cybersecurity.
Azure is a leading family of cloud software and services that allows you to utilize IT infrastructure, servers, and key apps running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure offers more than 100 cloud-based services including the ability to host Windows and Linux-based virtual machines, scalable cloud storage, email and messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and data protection. Progent can assist your organization to set up VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, configure storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity management with Azure Active Directory, and design backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to create secure connections to Azure for telecommuters by setting up and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN tunnels. To find out about Progent's expertise for Microsoft Azure, go to Azure expertise.
Office 365, rebranded Microsoft 365, is Microsoft's popular suite of client productivity software and cloud services offered on a subscription basis. Microsoft apps and services are provided in a variety of plans designed for customers ranging from students and households to major enterprises. Progent can provide quick and easy online contact with experts familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible client devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent can assist you to evaluate the various subscription plans offered with Microsoft 365 and deploy 365 applications for your teleworkers in a way that delivers top business value. To learn about Progent's support services for Microsoft Office 365, go to Office 365 consulting expertise.
Exchange Online is among the most popular cloud-based applications in Azure-hosted Office 365 product line. Exchange Online provides the advantages of reduced spending for physical infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high reliability, and additional benefits associated with public clouds. Microsoft has engineered Exchange Online to operate seamlessly with local Exchange environments, enabling you to build hybrid cloud/onsite networks. Progent's Exchange consultants are available for occasional help to guide you through challenging IT roadblocks and can also provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to ensure your remote workers have easy and safe access to your Exchange Online deployment. To learn Progent's expertise for Office 365 Exchange Online, visit Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration and support consulting.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a pioneer in the public cloud computing market and is the industry's leading provider of cloud-based services. Progent can provide quick and affordable online access to cloud connectivity experts who can help your organization to plan, implement, maintain, and debug hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with local resources and with other public clouds such as Microsoft Azure. Progent also can provide access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to assist your company to build a high-availability network architecture so your employees have a consistent computing environment whether they are working from your headquarters, a branch office, at home, or on the road. To find out about Progent's support services for Amazon AWS, go to Amazon AWS consulting expertise.
Google Cloud is a popular set of cloud computing services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can help your organization to extend your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's DBA experts can show you how to make your critical applications cloud friendly so your telecommuters can take full advantage of Google Cloud Platform services. Progent can help your business to deploy virtual machines on GCP Compute Engine, design an efficient storage solution with GCP Storage services, and streamline identity management for at-home workers with Google Cloud Identity. Progent's consultants can also help your business to utilize GCP's unified management technology to administer and track your GCP ecosystem. To find out, refer to Google Cloud Platform integration support.
Help Desk Call Center Services for Remote Workers
A rapid, enterprise-wide transition to a teleworker business model, which could be motivated by a pandemic or as a component of a disaster recovery preparedness plan, can overwhelm even a high-performing in-house Help Desk. Progent's Call Center services make it possible for organizations of any size to outsource or supplement their Call Desk by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center (TRC) team.
Security and Compliance for Telecommuters
Teleworkers commonly use their personal computing devices and work in an unsecured environment. This worsens their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for careful use of security appliances, remote security monitoring, and the creation of security policies that adhere to best practices. Progent's veteran roster of certified cybersecurity experts can help your company to plan, deploy and manage a modern cybersecurity environment that protects sensitive information in networks that incorporate remote workers.
Data Protection Solutions for Remote Workers
The field of Data Protection covers saving and restoring critical information in order to prevent data loss and reduce restoration time and effort in case of storage failures due to equipment breakdowns, software hiccups, user error, cyber attack, or other causes. Reliable data protection solutions can be particularly challenging to architect and maintain in hybrid environments that incorporate in-house data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for an At-Home Workforce
Microsoft has renamed and rebundled its endpoint management platforms under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud-based management of mobile and remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing local endpoints. Endpoint Manager features a unified solution for safeguarding critical information by controlling local, mobile, and home-based endpoints.
Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also includes Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and securing remote computers and applications. Remote endpoint devices can be personally owned or company owned. IT administrators managing the enrolled endpoint computers of teleworkers can utilize Intune to provision and validate applications on devices, push patches and certificates, configure rules for accessing data and networks, manage passwords, create VPN tunnels, determine how teleworkers share data, set up threat protection, ensure compliance, and delete corporate data from lost, stolen or decommissioned endpoint devices. Microsoft Intune can be used with Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS endpoints. To learn about Intune and to find out how Progent can assist your company to use this platform to manage the endpoint computers of your at-home workers, go to Intune mobile device management consultants.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich centralized Mobile Device Management product that allows network managers to keep offsite endpoints current and protected. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch for unified endpoint administration along with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery platform for identity control, app management, and setup management of endpoints. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints powered by Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-premises product via a perpetual license. Key features of VMware Workspace ONE include rapid over-the-air provisioning of out-of-the-box notebooks, quick onboarding of new users, policy setting and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies management reporting and performance analytics, email encryption, and tight integration with Microsoft applications and cloud-based services. To find out about Progent's expertise for VMware Workspace ONE, see VMware Workspace ONE remote endpoint management expertise.
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