Expanding your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to design, configure, administer, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Addison company to select the appropriate technologies and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and delivers top business value. Progent offers services ranging from on demand expertise for helping you over challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can assist Addison, Texas businesses to succeed with any facet of creating a high-functioning work-at-home environment by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, security monitoring, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.
Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure required for a remote work environment can be especially challenging if you must accommodate a mix of worker-owned hardware like PCs and notebooks, routers, and wireless appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a mix of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's background providing online help for both outdated as well as current technologies in remote office solutions allows you to make cost-effective use of your existing network infrastructure and provides you with fast access to expertise for implement necessary upgrades. Support services available from Progent to assist your company to implement a productive work-at-home ecosystem include:
IP Voice Integration for Teleworkers
Expanding the business phone environment to accommodate telecommuters is critical to maintaining an effective work-at-home solution. A variety of cloud-centric IP voice products are used by SMBs to server telecommuters. Many enterprises rely on Cisco's modern or older products for IP voice solutions. Progent can assist organizations of all sizes to plan or maintain a telecommuter VoIP service that delivers the flexibility, convenience and protection needed for telecommuters. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants offer advanced support to help organizations tune their current Cisco IP voice systems to handle an expanding at-home workforce.
Video Conferencing for Telecommuters
A broad selection of voice/video conferencing products from major vendors enable virtual discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat sessions, and screen sharing for both onsite users and teleworkers. Many companies utilize a mix of conferencing products to accommodate their various partners and clients. Progent can help your organization to maintain your current voice/video conferencing ecosystem and optimize the experience of your remote workforce.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Software for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are closely integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office suites, offering a rich environment of productivity apps that create a cohesive user interface for sharing data and ideas across multiple sites and on a wide selection of endpoints. Progent has delivered online consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange Server since their first releases and can assist your company to tune these flagship collaboration products to optimize the effectiveness of your remote workers.
SharePoint utilizes web sites to facilitate collaboration and information delivery by providing policy-based access to content, business processes, and utilities for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint permits you to build protected web portals that enables at-home workforce to see and update aggregated corporate intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). To learn about Progent's SharePoint consulting services, see 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 information about Progent's Exchange consulting expertise, go to integration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s collaborative cloud storage service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote users can store files to OneDrive, and colleagues anywhere can retrieve them safely through a browser. Provided with Office 365, OneDrive allows at-home workers to jointly author documents. Revisions made offline are synced when you reconnect to the Internet. To find out about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft OneDrive, visit Onedrive integration experts.
Public Cloud Integration for At-Home Workers
Progent offers affordable online support for helping organizations to create, maintain and troubleshoot integrated network architectures that combine physical data centers, at-home workers, branch offices, and cloud resources. Progent can provide expertise for all types of cloud service delivery such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help telecommuters fix issues with public cloud access, identity, and cybersecurity.
Microsoft Azure is a leading family of public cloud software and services that allows you to use infrastructure, virtual servers, and key applications running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure features more than one hundred cloud-based services including the ability to host Windows and Linux-based VMs, scalable cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Progent can assist your organization to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate 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 help you create protected access to Azure for at-home workers by setting up and troubleshooting firewall appliances and VPN IPsec tunnels. For information about Progent's expertise for Microsoft Azure, see Microsoft Azure consulting.
Office 365, now called Microsoft 365, is Microsoft's popular suite of business productivity applications and cloud services available on a subscription basis. Microsoft applications and cloud services are provided in a selection of plans intended for customers ranging from individuals and small offices to large enterprises. Progent can provide quick and affordable online access to consultants familiar with Office 365-compatible endpoints based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent can assist you to assess the numerous subscription bundles available for Office 365 and configure 365 apps for your telecommuters in a way that delivers top business value. To find out about Progent's support services for Microsoft Office 365, visit Microsoft 365 integration services.
Exchange Online is one of the most popular applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product line. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online offers the advantages of lower costs for data center infrastructure, easier management, on-demand scaling, high availability, and additional advantages inherent with cloud computing. Microsoft has designed Exchange Online to run transparently with on-premises Exchange environments, allowing customers to create hybrid cloud/onsite networks. Progent's certified Exchange experts can provide occasional assistance to get you past tough technical roadblocks and can also provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to make sure your remote workers have easy and safe access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment. For details Progent's support services for Office 365 Exchange Online, see Office 365 Exchange Online configuration and troubleshooting expertise.
Amazon AWS is a pioneer in the public cloud market and is the industry's top source of cloud services. Progent can provide quick and affordable online access to cloud connectivity consultants who can help your organization to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot hybrid IT networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises resources and with other popular cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure. Progent also offers access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to help your company to build a high-uptime network model to make sure your employees have a consistent computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a remote branch, at home, or on the move. To learn about Progent's consulting expertise for Amazon AWS, go to Amazon AWS consulting support.
Google Cloud (GCP) is a leading 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 assist your organization to scale your current IT resources with the Google Cloud, and Progent's database consultants can show you how to make your mission-critical apps cloud ready so your remote workers can benefit fully from Google Cloud services. Progent's consultants can assist your organization to deploy virtual machines on GCP Compute Engine, plan an efficient storage system with Google Cloud Storage services, and streamline identity control for remote workers with Google Cloud Identity. Progent's experts can also assist your business to use GCP's management technology to administer and monitor your GCP environment. To learn, refer to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration services.
Help Desk Services for Telecommuters
An emergency, company-wide transition to a telecommuter business model, which might be the result of a pandemic or as a component of a business continuity preparedness plan, can overstretch even a well-staffed internal Support Desk. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services make it possible for organizations of any size to outsource or expand their Call Center by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center (TRC) services.
Cybersecurity for Telecommuters
Remote workers often use their own computing devices and work in an unsecured environment. This increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and demands judicious deployment of security appliances, remote monitoring, and the enforcement of policies that adhere to leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of certified cybersecurity experts can assist your business to plan, implement and manage a compliant security environment that protects sensitive information in networks that incorporate remote workers.
Data Protection Solutions for Teleworkers
The field of Data Protection involves saving and restoring vital information in order to prevent data loss and reduce restoration time and effort in the event of storage failures due to equipment issues, software hiccups, user error, cyber attack, or any other reason. Dependable data protection solutions can be particularly difficult to design and maintain in hybrid networks that combine local data centers, public clouds, and at-home workers.
Unified Management for Remote Workers
Microsoft has renamed and rebundled its endpoint management products under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud-based management of mobile and remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises endpoints. Endpoint Manager provides a unified platform for protecting corporate data by controlling on-premises, mobile, and home-based endpoints.
Microsoft Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also features Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and protecting mobile devices and applications. Remote endpoint devices can be personally owned or business owned. IT administrators managing the endpoint computers of at-home workers can use Intune to provision and authenticate apps on devices, push updates and certificates, configure policies for accessing information and networks, manage passwords, create VPN tunnels, determine how teleworkers share information, set up threat protection, verify compliance, and delete corporate data from missing, stolen or decommissioned endpoint devices. Microsoft Intune runs with Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS devices. For details about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can assist your company to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the devices of your telecommuters, see Intune teleworker endpoint management expertise.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized Mobile Device Management platform that allows network managers to keep offsite endpoints up to date and protected. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch technology for centralized endpoint administration plus VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery technology for authorization control, application management, and setup management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE operates with devices powered by Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-site deployment through a perpetual license. Top capabilities of Workspace ONE include fast over-the-air deployment of new laptops, immediate onboarding of new users, policy set up and enforcement for all categories of endpoints, unifies reporting and analytics, an email encryption gateway, and tight integration with Microsoft apps and cloud products. For information about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, visit VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management consultants.
Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
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