Progent's Co-managed Service Desk
Progent's Co-managed Service Desk is intended for organizations with between 50 and 500 users and enables your information technology group to split activity for Help Desk services transparently between your internal network support team and Progent's nationwide pool of certified IT support technicians, engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's Shared Help Desk service is a collaborative IT support solution built around ConnectWise Manage, the leading PSA platform for administering IT service requests, generating trouble tickets, designating responsibility, monitoring progress, and producing management reports. The price for Level 1 IT support for Progent's Co-managed Help Desk service is typically under $18/user/month.
Progent's Shared Help Desk Service offers a seamless extension of your in-house network support team. End user interaction with the Service Desk, provision of support services, problem escalation, trouble ticket creation and updates, efficiency metrics, and management of the service database are consistent regardless of whether issues are resolved by your corporate IT support organization, by Progent's team, or by a combination. All client support requests are ranked as Level 1, 2 or 3 issues. Progent focuses on whatever support level or levels you specify (usually Levels 1 and 3). Initial support calls are routed to your in-house IT support organization or to Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC), based on your preferences. Level 2 or 3 issues can be promoted to Progent's Experts Team of subject matter experts (SMEs). The escalation activity is seamless for your end users. You have unrestricted flexibility to expand or reduce your part of technical support work as required. Progent takes care of startup deployment and onboarding of the professional services automation software as well as documentation, testing and training.

Progent's Technical Response Center
Progent's Technical Response Center has been providing remote IT help for over twenty years and has active customers in each state in the U.S. (refer to Progent's client testimonials.) The Technical Response Center maintains the team of seasoned desktop technicians who can resolve Level 1 tickets, which make up the majority of Service Desk support calls. The Technical Response Center, like Progent's Experts Team, uses the ConnectWise Manage professional services automation (PSA) software platform to streamline ticketing, tracking, ownership assignment, problem escalation and reporting. This proven solution prevents problems from falling through the cracks and gives clients continual understanding about all services delivered. Progent's Technical Response Center targets 90% in-person answer rate and allows Progent's Co-managed Service Desk program to include a 60-minute service-level agreement. Support hours are 5am to 7pm Pacific Time on normal work days. Extended support hours and onsite service are available at additional cost. To learn more about Progent's TRC, visit Progent's Technical Response Center Customer Commitment.
Definition of Service Levels
Progent provides three distinct levels of remote IT support, which align with industry-standard Tier 1 through Tier 3 service. You can choose which service levels will be handled wholly or shared by Progent and your internal staff. The depth and knowledge of Progent's roster of subject matter experts enables rapid and effective ticket escalation and makes it possible to rely on Progent as a single source for most IT problems at any Tier. In addition, Progent's provision of knowledge transfer allows key support issues to migrate from higher to lower Tiers as resolution processes become recorded and standardized so they can be performed by less skilled and lower-cost support personnel.
Support levels are described as:

This particular deployment of Progent's Co-managed 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
Download Progent's White Paper: Is Co-managed IT a Good Idea?
Even though having your own self-sufficient local network support staff can be a burden from the cost perspective, a lot of companies opt for that strategy since it offers them greater control over their information system management. But did you know that your business can continue to leverage the advantages of a managed services provider within the shared network support model. Adopting the shared model allows your business to keep in control over your network infrastructure while reinforcing your local IT services staff simply and affordably.
To find out more, see our white paper: Is co-managed IT a good idea? (PDF - 632 KB).
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Progent's ProSight Line of RMM Services
Progent has developed the ProSight family of remote monitoring and management (RMM) services to automate vital activities associated with network administration, cybersecurity and upkeep. These services can be integrated with Progent's Co-managed Call Desk service by installing agent software on computers to be tracked and managed. Notifications sent by these agents can be forwarded directly to Progent's Technical Response Center, managed via the trouble ticket and monitoring system, and categorized for Level 1, 2 or 3 support.
Examples of ProSight RMM packages include:
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's network, server, and endpoint remote monitoring service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management technology to help keep your IT system running at peak levels by checking the health of critical assets that drive your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alert is transmitted immediately to your specified IT personnel and your Progent engineering consultant so that all 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 about ProSight LAN Watch network, server, and endpoint monitoring consulting.
ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM software offers a centralized, cloud-driven solution for managing your client-server infrastructure by providing tools for streamlining common time-consuming jobs. These include health checking, update management, automated repairs, endpoint deployment, backup and restore, anti-virus protection, remote access, built-in and custom scripts, resource inventory, endpoint profile reporting, and troubleshooting assistance. If ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM spots a serious issue, it sends an alarm to your specified IT management staff and your Progent consultant so potential problems can be taken care of before they impact your network. Learn more details about ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM server and desktop remote monitoring services.
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it simple and inexpensive for smaller businesses to map out, monitor, enhance and debug their networking appliances like routers and switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, client computers and other devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art RMM technology, WAN Watch ensures that network maps are kept current, copies and displays the configuration information of virtually all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and sends alerts when problems are discovered. By automating tedious management processes, WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks such as network mapping, expanding your network, finding appliances that need critical software patches, or identifying the cause of performance problems. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management consulting.
ProSight Reporting is an expanding family of real-time reporting tools created to work with the industry's leading ticketing and remote network monitoring applications such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting incorporates Microsoft Graph and utilizes color coding to surface and contextualize critical issues like inconsistent support follow-through or endpoints with missing patches. By identifying ticketing or network health problems clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances productivity, lowers management hassle, and saves money. For details, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring platforms.
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based management outsourcing plans that deliver backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS products automate and track your data backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of critical files/folders, applications, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business avoid data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed services in the ProSight Data Protection Services portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to identify which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your network.
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second form of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services.
Progent's Shared Help Desk Service offers a seamless extension of your in-house network support organization. Client access to the Help Desk, provision of support services, issue escalation, trouble ticket generation and updates, performance metrics, and management of the support database are consistent regardless of whether incidents are resolved by your corporate IT support resources, by Progent, or a mix of the two. You have unrestricted versatility to expand or reduce your part of IT support work as required. Progent takes care of initial deployment and provisioning of the professional services automation (PSA) software as well as documentation, testing and education. For details about ProSight Shared Call Desk, refer to ProSight Shared Call Desk.
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology from SentinelOne to guard physical and virtual endpoints against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense with SentinelOne technology.
Progent's managed services for patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.
How to Get Started with Progent's Shared Network Help Desk Services
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