Enlarging your remote workforce can have a major effect on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience helping SMBs to design, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can help your Cincinnati company to select the appropriate tools and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide support services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you past challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.
Progent can assist Cincinnati, Ohio companies to succeed with any facet of building a high-performing work-from-home ecosystem by delivering infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.
Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Configuring the network infrastructure needed to support an at-home work environment can be particularly challenging if you have to accommodate a mix of personal hardware like desktop computers and notebooks, routers, and Wi-Fi APs from various vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's experience delivering online help for both legacy and current IT products in virtual office solutions enables you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for making necessary updates. Support services available from Progent to help your company to implement a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:
VoIP Solutions for Telecommuters
Extending the company phone system to include remote users is vital to maintaining a productive at-home workforce. A broad range of cloud-centric IP voice platforms are used by small and mid-size businesses to support teleworkers. Many larger organizations depend on Cisco's current or older platforms for VoIP management. Progent can help organizations of all sizes to design or maintain a remote VoIP environment that provides the flexibility, convenience and security required for telecommuters. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE IP Voice consultants can provide high-level support to assist businesses optimize their current Cisco VoIP systems to handle a growing at-home workforce.
Video Conferencing for Remote Workers
A broad selection of video conferencing platforms from leading technology companies enable online discussions, video conferencing, chat sessions, and screen sharing for both local workers and teleworkers. Many companies utilize multiple products to accommodate their different partners and clients. Progent can help you to manage your current voice/video conferencing ecosystem and optimize the productivity of your at-home workforce.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for Teleworkers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are closely integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office and Microsoft 365 families, offering a rich ecosystem of applications that create a consistent user experience for sharing data and ideas across a corporate network and on a wide selection of endpoints. Progent has delivered online consulting services for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange since their original publication and can help businesses to configure these flagship collaboration platforms to optimize the effectiveness of your remote workers.
SharePoint utilizes web sites to enable collaboration and information sharing by offering policy-based access to data, business processes, and tools for looking through enterprise-wide business data. SharePoint permits you to create protected portals that enables at-home workforce to view and edit consolidated corporate intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social networking sites, and Web Parts. For information about Progent's SharePoint expertise, go to SharePoint configuration and 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. For details about Progent's Exchange expertise, see deployment expertise for Microsoft Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s collaborative cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. At-home users can store files to OneDrive, and colleagues anywhere can retrieve them securely through a web browser. Included with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows remote workers to co-edit documents. Edits made offline are automatically synced when you reconnect to the Internet. For details about Progent's support services for Microsoft OneDrive, visit Onedrive integration consulting.
Public Cloud Integration Services for Teleworkers
Progent offers advanced online support for helping businesses to create, manage and optimize integrated hybrid network models that combine physical data centers, at-home workers, branches, and cloud services. Progent can provide expertise for all types of public cloud service delivery such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Progent can help remote workers resolve issues with cloud connectivity, authentication, and cybersecurity.
Azure is a popular platform for cloud software and services that allows you to use infrastructure, servers, and critical applications running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure features over 100 cloud-based services including the ability to host Windows and Linux-based VMs, on-demand cloud storage, messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and data backup. Progent can help your organization to set up VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, configure storage on Azure Storage services, unify identity control with Azure AD, and design data backup and recovery solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to create protected connections to Azure for remote workers by setting up and debugging firewalls and VPN tunnels. To learn about Progent's expertise for Azure, see Azure expertise.
Office 365, rebranded Microsoft 365, is Microsoft's popular family of business productivity software and cloud-based services available by subscription. Microsoft apps and services are marketed in a selection of plans intended for customers ranging from individuals and households to major corporations. Progent can provide quick and easy remote contact with experts familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible endpoint devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent's experts can help you to evaluate the various subscription bundles available for Microsoft 365 and configure 365 apps for your teleworkers to achieve maximum business value. For information about Progent's expertise for Microsoft Office 365, go to Microsoft 365 consulting expertise.
Exchange Online is among the most popular cloud-based applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product product suite. Exchange Online offers the advantages of lower spending for data center infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high availability, and additional advantages inherent with cloud computing. Microsoft has engineered Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to run transparently with on-premises Exchange environments, allowing you to create hybrid information systems. Progent's certified Exchange experts are available for as-needed assistance to get you past tough IT bottlenecks and also offer end-to-end project management services to make sure your remote workers have easy and safe access to your Office 365 Exchange Online deployment. For details Progent's consulting expertise for Exchange Online, refer to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online configuration and troubleshooting consulting.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a pioneer in the public cloud market and is the world's leading provider of cloud services. Progent can provide rapid and economical online contact with cloud integration experts who can help your organization to design, implement, maintain, and debug hybrid IT networks that integrate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with local resources and with other public clouds like Microsoft Azure. Progent also offers the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to help your company to create a high-uptime network model to make sure your users have a productive computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your headquarters, a branch office, from home, or on the road. To learn about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, refer to Amazon AWS consulting expertise.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a popular set of cloud computing services that offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can help you to expand your current IT resources with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's database consultants can show you how to make your mission-critical apps cloud ready so your teleworkers can take full advantage of Google Cloud Platform services. Progent can help your organization to set up virtual machines on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage solution with Google Cloud Storage, and simplify identity management for remote workers with GCP Cloud Identity services. Progent can also assist your organization to use GCP's unified management tools to administer and track your GCP environment. For information, refer to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consulting support.
Help Desk Services for Teleworkers
An emergency, organization-wide changeover to a from-home business model, which might be the result of a pandemic or as a component of a disaster recovery/business continuity plan, can overstretch even a high-performing in-house Support Desk. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services allow organizations to outsource or augment their Help Desk Call Center by using Progent's online Technical Response Center (TRC) team.
Cybersecurity for Telecommuters
Teleworkers often run their own computers and work in a physically unsecured area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and calls for judicious deployment of security appliances, remote monitoring, and the creation of security policies that follow leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of certified data security experts can help your company to design, deploy and manage a modern cybersecurity solution that safeguards vital information in networks that include teleworkers.
Data Protection Solutions for Teleworkers
Data Protection involves backing up and restoring critical information in order to prevent data loss and minimize recovery time in case of storage system failures resulting from hardware issues, software glitches, user error, malware, or other causes. Reliable data protection solutions can be especially difficult to architect and maintain in hybrid environments that combine 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 products under the title Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of mobile and remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises endpoints. Endpoint Manager features a unified solution for safeguarding critical information by controlling local, mobile, and home-based endpoint devices.
Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also includes Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and securing mobile computers and software. Remote endpoint computers can be personally owned or company owned. Network admins managing the endpoint computers of teleworkers can utilize Intune to deploy and validate apps on managed devices, push patches and certificates, configure policies for permission to access data and resources, set passwords, create VPN connections, determine how telecommuters share information, set up threat defense, verify compliance, and delete sensitive information from lost, stolen or deactivated devices. Intune works with iOS/iPadOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS endpoints. For information about Microsoft Intune and to find out how Progent can assist you to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the endpoint computers of your teleworkers, go to Intune teleworker endpoint management experts.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced unified MDM platform that helps network administrators to keep offsite endpoint devices up to date and protected. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch technology for unified endpoint administration along with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery technology for identity control, application management, and configuration management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints based on Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud-based service or as an on-site product through a perpetual license. Top capabilities of Workspace ONE include fast remote provisioning of out-of-the-box notebooks, immediate onboarding of new employees, policy setting and enforcement for all classes of devices, unifies reporting and performance analytics, email encryption, and integration with Microsoft apps and cloud services. For information about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, refer to VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management consultants.
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