Enlarging your remote workforce can have a significant effect on IT architecture, security, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of background assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that support a remote workforce. Progent can help your Milwaukee company to pick the appropriate tools and adhere to leading practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent offers support services that go from on demand expertise for helping you past challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.
Progent can help Milwaukee, Wisconsin companies to succeed with any facet of creating a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, helpdesk augmentation, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.
Network Infrastructure for Telecommuters
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure required to support an at-home work environment can be especially complicated if you must accommodate a combination of personal equipment such as desktop computers and notebooks, routers, and wireless APs from various manufacturers and with a mix of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's experience providing online support for both outdated and current technologies in virtual office solutions allows you to make efficient use of your available infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for implement essential upgrades. Support services offered by Progent to assist your company to implement a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:
VoIP Integration for an At-Home Workforce
Expanding the company phone environment to accommodate telecommuters is vital to supporting an effective at-home workforce. A variety of cloud-centric digital PBX products are popular with small and mid-size businesses to server telecommuters. Many larger organizations rely on Cisco's modern or older products for IP voice solutions. Progent can help businesses of all sizes to plan or maintain a remote IP voice environment that provides the versatility, convenience and protection required for at-home workers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE IP Voice consultants can provide advanced support to assist organizations tune their existing Cisco VoIP environments to handle an expanding remote workforce.
Voice/Video Conferencing for Teleworkers
A broad range of voice/video conferencing platforms from major technology companies enable online discussions, video conferencing, chat, and screen sharing for both local users and at-home workers. Many companies use a mix of conferencing products to meet the needs of their different partners and clients. Progent can assist your organization to maintain your existing conferencing environment and optimize the engagement of your at-home employees.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for Teleworkers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office and Microsoft 365 suites, offering a rich ecosystem of productivity apps that deliver a consistent user interface for sharing information across a corporate network and on a broad selection of endpoint devices. Progent has delivered online consulting support for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange since their initial publication and can help businesses to deploy these critical collaboration products to optimize the effectiveness of your remote workers.
SharePoint utilizes web sites to enable collaboration and information delivery by providing policy-based delivery of content, workflow, and utilities for searching through company-wide business data. SharePoint allows you to create secure web portals that enables at-home workers to see and update consolidated business intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social web sites, and Web Parts. For information 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 consulting services, go to planning and configuration expertise for Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s shared cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service, comparable to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can store files to OneDrive, and co-workers can share them safely through a browser. Included with Office 365, OneDrive enables at-home employees to co-author documents. Edits made offline are automatically uploaded when you go back online. To learn about Progent's expertise for OneDrive, go to Microsoft Onedrive integration experts.
Cloud Integration Services for Telecommuters
Progent offers fast and affordable remote support for helping businesses to create, manage and repair integrated hybrid network architectures that include physical data centers, remote workers, branches, plus cloud services. Progent offers expertise for all types of public cloud service delivery such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service. Progent can help at-home workers resolve issues with public cloud connectivity, identity, and security.
Microsoft Azure is a popular family of cloud software and services that allows you to use IT infrastructure, servers, and key apps running on Microsoft's massive cloud. Microsoft Azure features more than one hundred cloud-based services such as hosting for Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines, on-demand cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and data protection. Progent can assist your organization to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity control with Azure AD, and plan backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also help you establish protected access to Azure for telecommuters by setting up and debugging firewalls and VPN tunnels. For information about Progent's expertise for Microsoft Azure, go to Microsoft Azure expertise.
Office 365, rebranded Microsoft 365, is Microsoft's growing suite of client productivity software and cloud services offered by subscription. Microsoft applications and cloud services are provided in a selection of bundles designed for users ranging from individuals and households to major corporations. Progent offers quick and easy online access to consultants familiar with Office 365-compatible endpoints running Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent's experts can help your business to evaluate the numerous subscription plans available for Office 365 and configure 365 applications for your at-home workers in a way that delivers top business value. To learn about Progent's support services for Microsoft Office 365, refer to Office 365 consulting services.
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online is one of the most popular cloud-based applications in the Office 365 product line. Office 365 Exchange Online offers the benefits of reduced costs for physical infrastructure, simplified management, on-demand scaling, high availability, and additional benefits associated with cloud computing. Microsoft has engineered Office 365 Exchange Online to operate seamlessly with on-premises deployments of Exchange, enabling you to build hybrid information systems. Progent's Exchange experts are available for occasional help to guide you through challenging technical bottlenecks and also offer end-to-end project management outsourcing to make sure your teleworkers have convenient and secure access to your Exchange Online deployment. To find out Progent's consulting services for Office 365 Exchange Online, refer to Exchange Online configuration and support consulting.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a pioneer in the public cloud arena and is the industry's top source of cloud-based services. Progent can provide quick and affordable online access to cloud integration experts who can assist your business to design, implement, manage, and troubleshoot hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises data centers and with other public clouds like Microsoft Azure. Progent also can provide access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to help your company to create a high-uptime network architecture so your users have a consistent computing experience whether they are working from your headquarters, a branch office, from home, or on the move. For details about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, see Amazon AWS integration support.
Google Cloud is a popular suite of cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can assist your organization to expand your current IT assets with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's database experts can show you how to make your key apps cloud friendly so your telecommuters can take full advantage of Google Cloud Platform services. Progent's consultants can help your organization to set up virtual machines on GCP Compute Engine, design a cost-effective storage system with GCP Storage, and streamline access management for remote workers with Google Cloud Identity services. Progent's experts can also help your business to utilize GCP's unified management tools to control and monitor your Google Cloud ecosystem. To find out, refer to Google Cloud Platform consulting services.
Help Desk Call Center Services for Telecommuters
A sudden, company-wide switchover to a telecommuter workforce, which could be motivated by a pandemic or as part of a disaster recovery plan, can overstretch even a well-staffed in-house Call Desk. Progent's Help Desk services allow businesses to outsource or supplement their Call Desk with Progent's remote Technical Response Center team.
Cybersecurity for Telecommuters
Remote workers commonly run their own computing devices and work in an unsecured space. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires judicious use of security appliances, remote security monitoring, and the enforcement of policies in compliance with best practices. Progent's veteran roster of certified cybersecurity professionals can assist you to design, implement and administer a compliant security solution that guards sensitive data in networks that incorporate telecommuters.
Data Protection Solutions for At-Home Workers
The field of Data Protection covers backing up and recovering vital data in order to avoid data loss and minimize restoration time and effort in the event of storage failures due to equipment breakdowns, programming glitches, user mistakes, cyber attack, or other causes. Dependable data protection solutions can be especially challenging to architect and maintain in hybrid networks that incorporate local data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for an At-Home Workforce
Microsoft has renamed and reshuffled its endpoint management platforms under the title Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of mobile and remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing local computers. Endpoint Manager features a unified environment for safeguarding critical information by controlling on-premises, mobile, and at-home endpoint devices.
Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also features Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and protecting mobile devices and applications. Managed endpoint computers can be personally owned or business owned. IT administrators managing the enrolled endpoint devices of telecommuters can use Intune to provision and authenticate apps on managed devices, push updates and certificates, configure rules for accessing information and networks, set passwords, establish VPN tunnels, control how home-based workers share data, establish threat defense, verify compliance, and wipe sensitive information from missing, stolen or deactivated devices. Microsoft Intune can be used with Apple iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X endpoints. To find out about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can help your company to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to administer the endpoint devices of your telecommuters, go to Intune remote endpoint management expertise.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized Mobile Device Management product that helps network administrators to keep offsite endpoint devices current and protected. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch technology for centralized endpoint administration combined with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery platform for authorization control, application management, and configuration management of endpoint computers. Workspace ONE runs with devices 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-based service or as an on-site product through a one-time purchase. Top capabilities of Workspace ONE include fast over-the-air provisioning of new laptops, quick onboarding of new employees, policy setting and enforcement for all classes of devices, unifies management reporting and analytics, email encryption, and integration with Microsoft applications and cloud products. To find out about Progent's expertise for VMware Workspace ONE, see VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management consultants.
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
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