Progent's Shared Service Desk
Progent's Co-managed Service Desk enables your information technology team to divide activity for Service Desk support seamlessly between your internal support resources and Progent's nationwide roster of IT service technicians, engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's Shared Service Desk is a joint IT service system based on ConnectWise Manage, the industry-leading Professional Services Automation (PSA) tool for managing IT service requests, generating trouble tickets, designating responsibility, monitoring progress, and producing management reports. The cost for Level 1 IT support for Progent's Shared Help Desk service averages under $18/user/month.
Progent's Co-managed Help Desk Service provides a smooth supplement to your in-house IT support team. Client interaction with the Help Desk, delivery of technical assistance, issue escalation, trouble ticket generation and tracking, efficiency metrics, and maintenance of the support database are consistent regardless of whether issues are taken care of by your corporate support group, by Progent, or a mix of the two. All end-user service calls are ranked as Level 1, 2 or 3 issues. Progent handles whatever service levels you assign (usually Levels 1 and 3). Original support calls are routed to your in-house support group or to Progent's Technical Response Center, based on your requirements. Level 2 or 3 tickets can be promoted to Progent's Experts Team of subject matter experts (SMEs). The assignment activity is transparent to your clients. Your business has unrestricted flexibility to expand or shrink your part of technical support work as circumstances demand. Progent takes care of initial installation and onboarding of the professional services automation software plus workflow documentation, validation and education.

Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC)
Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC) has been providing online IT assistance for more than two decades and serves active customers in each state in the U.S. (see Progent's client testimonials.) The TRC maintains the team of certified desktop technicians who can resolve Level 1 trouble tickets, which represent the bulk of Service Desk service calls. The Technical Response Center, like Progent's Experts Team, uses the ConnectWise Manage professional services automation (PSA) platform to streamline ticketing, tracking progress, responsibility assignment, escalation and reporting. This system prevents issues from being ignored and offers clients continual visibility of all support services delivered. The Technical Response Center targets 90% in-person answer performance and allows Progent's Shared Help Desk program to offer a 60-minute service-level agreement (SLA). Support hours are 5am to 7pm PST on normal work days. Extended support times and on-premises help are available at extra cost. To learn more about the TRC, refer to Progent's TRC Customer Commitment.
Definition of Service Levels
Progent offers three levels of online technical service, which align with industry-standard Tier 1 through Tier 3 service. You can choose which support levels will be handled wholly or in part by Progent and your in-house staff. The size and scope of Progent's team of SMEs allows fast and efficient ticket escalation and permits you to count on Progent as a one-stop source for most IT problems at any Tier. In addition, Progent's provision of knowledge transfer allows important service issues to migrate from higher to lower levels as resolution processes become recorded and normalized so they can be performed by less skilled and less expensive service personnel.
Support levels are defined as:

This sample deployment of Progent's Shared Help Desk Service has a 4-phase ticket lifecycle:
Highlights of Progent's Help Desk Service
Top aspects of Progent's Co-managed Call Desk offerings include:
Initial Phase
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Progent's Shared Service Desk Datasheet. (PDF - 108 KB)
Progent's ProSight Family of Managed Services
Progent has packaged the ProSight suite of remote monitoring and management (RMM) services to automate critical activities associated with IT administration, security and maintenance. Any of these RMM services can be used with Progent's Co-managed Help Desk service by installing agent apps on machines to be monitored and managed. Alerts generated by these agents can be forwarded automatically to Progent's Technical Response Center, managed via the trouble ticket and tracking system, and triaged for Level 1, 2 or 3 treatment.
Examples of ProSight Remote Monitoring and Management services include:
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's network, server, and endpoint monitoring managed service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management technology to keep your network running at peak levels by tracking the state of vital computers that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch detects an issue, an alert is sent immediately to your specified IT staff and your Progent engineering consultant so any potential problems can be addressed before they can disrupt your network. ProSight LAN Watch is National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) compliant. Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch network, server, and endpoint monitoring services.
ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM software offers a centralized, cloud-based solution for monitoring and managing your network, server, and desktop devices by providing an environment for streamlining common tedious tasks. These include health checking, patch management, automated repairs, endpoint deployment, backup and recovery, anti-virus defense, secure remote access, built-in and custom scripts, asset inventory, endpoint profile reporting, and troubleshooting help. When ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM spots a serious issue, it sends an alert to your designated IT management personnel and your assigned Progent technical consultant so that emerging problems can be taken care of before they impact your network. Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM server and desktop remote monitoring services.
ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it simple and affordable for small and mid-sized organizations to map out, monitor, reconfigure and troubleshoot their networking hardware such as switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, endpoints and other networked devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology maps are kept updated, captures and displays the configuration of virtually all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends alerts when potential issues are discovered. By automating time-consuming network management processes, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary chores such as making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that require important software patches, or identifying the cause of performance problems. Find out more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure management services.
ProSight Reporting is an expanding family of real-time and in-depth management reporting utilities created to work with the leading ticketing and network monitoring programs including ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting incorporates Microsoft Graph and features color coding to surface and contextualize critical issues like spotty support follow-up or endpoints with missing patches. By identifying ticketing or network health problems concisely and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances productivity, lowers management overhead, and saves money. For details, visit ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring platforms.
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS products manage and track your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of vital files, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss caused by hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, malicious insiders, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected online account and enter your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added form of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services.
Progent's Co-managed Service Desk offers a transparent extension of your internal network support organization. Client access to the Help Desk, delivery of support, escalation, ticket generation and updates, efficiency measurement, and maintenance of the service database are consistent regardless of whether issues are taken care of by your core support group, by Progent, or a mix of the two. Your business has unrestricted versatility to expand or shrink your share of support activity as needed. Progent provides initial deployment and onboarding of the professional services automation (PSA) software plus workflow documentation, validation and education. For details about ProSight Co-Managed Support, visit ProSight Co-Managed Call Desk.
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools from SentinelOne to guard physical and virtual endpoints against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense with SentinelOne technology.
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information network. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.
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