Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Minneapolis company to pick the appropriate tools and adhere to leading practices in building and operating a secure virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent offers support services that go from as-needed expertise for helping you past occasional technical roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can assist Minneapolis, Minnesota businesses to with any facet of building a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem by providing infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Network Infrastructure for Telecommuters
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure needed to support a remote work environment can be especially complex if you have to accommodate a mix of worker-owned hardware such as desktop computers and laptops, Internet routers, and wireless APs from an assortment of vendors and with a mix of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's background delivering online support for both outdated and current technologies in virtual office venues allows you to make cost-effective use of your existing network infrastructure and offers ready access to top-tire consultants for making necessary updates. Support services available from Progent to help you to create a productive work-at-home ecosystem include:
VoIP Integration for an At-Home Workforce
Extending the corporate phone system to include remote users is vital to supporting a productive at-home workforce. A broad range of cloud-based IP voice platforms are popular with small and mid-size businesses to support teleworkers. Many enterprises rely on Cisco's modern or older products for VoIP solutions. Progent can assist businesses of any size to plan or tune a telecommuter IP voice environment that provides the versatility, convenience and security needed for teleworkers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice experts can provide high-level support to assist organizations optimize their current Cisco VoIP systems to support an expanding remote workforce.
Voice/Video Conferencing for Teleworkers
A wide selection of video conferencing products from leading technology companies enable virtual discussions, video conferencing, chat, and content sharing for both local workers and telecommuters. Many organizations utilize a mix of conferencing products to meet the needs of their various partners and customers. Progent's communications experts can help your organization to manage your existing conferencing ecosystem and optimize the productivity of your at-home employees.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for Telecommuters
Microsoft's collaboration products are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office suites, offering a powerful ecosystem of applications that deliver a cohesive user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide range of endpoint computers. Progent has delivered remote consulting support for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server since their original releases and can help your company to configure these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize the productivity of your at-home workers.
SharePoint uses web sites to enable collaboration and information sharing by providing policy-driven access to data, business processes, and utilities for looking through company-wide business data. SharePoint allows you to create protected web portals that permits at-home workforce to see and edit consolidated corporate intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts. To find out about Progent's SharePoint support services, go to SharePoint configuration 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 expertise, go to planning and configuration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s collaborative cloud storage service, comparable to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can save files to OneDrive, and co-workers can access them safely through a browser. Included with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows home employees to jointly author documents. Revisions made offline are automatically uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. To learn about Progent's consulting services for OneDrive, go to Onedrive integration consulting.
Cloud Integration Services for Remote Workers
Progent can provide advanced online assistance for helping businesses to create, manage and repair integrated hybrid network architectures that combine physical data centers, remote workers, branches, and cloud resources. Progent offers expertise for all types of cloud service such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Progent can help remote workers resolve problems with cloud access, identity, and cybersecurity.
Azure is a leading platform for public cloud services that enables you to utilize infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical apps running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure features over 100 cloud-based services such as the ability to host Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines, on-demand cloud storage, email and messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and data backup. Progent can assist your organization to deploy VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, configure cloud-based storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity management with Azure AD, and plan backup and restore systems with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you establish protected access to Azure services for at-home workers by setting up and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN IPsec tunnels. To find out about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Azure, refer to Microsoft Azure expertise.
Office 365, rebranded Microsoft 365, is Microsoft's growing family of business productivity software and cloud-based services available on a subscription basis. Office applications and services are marketed in a selection of bundles intended for users ranging from individuals and small offices to large corporations. Progent can provide quick and easy remote contact with consultants familiar with Office 365-compatible clients running Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent's experts can assist you to assess the various subscription plans offered with Office 365 and configure 365 applications for your telecommuters to achieve top business value. For information about Progent's expertise for Microsoft Office 365, see Microsoft Office 365 integration expertise.
Exchange Online is among the most widely used cloud-based applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product line. Office 365 Exchange Online provides the advantages of reduced spending for physical infrastructure, simplified management, on-demand scaling, high availability, and additional benefits associated with public clouds. Microsoft has engineered Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to run smoothly with local deployments of Exchange, allowing you to build hybrid information systems. Progent's Exchange consultants can provide as-needed assistance to guide you through challenging technical bottlenecks and can also provide comprehensive project management services to make sure your remote workers have convenient and secure access to your Office 365 Exchange Online environment. To find out Progent's consulting expertise for Exchange Online, go to Exchange Online integration and troubleshooting consulting.
Amazon AWS is a trailblazer in the public cloud market and is the industry's top source of cloud services. Progent can provide fast and affordable online contact with cloud connectivity consultants who can assist your business to design, implement, maintain, and debug hybrid IT networks that integrate Amazon AWS cloud services with local resources and with other public clouds such as Azure. Progent also offers the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to assist your company to build a high-availability network architecture so your employees have a productive computing environment whether they are working from your main office, a branch office, at home, or on the move. For details about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, see Amazon AWS consulting services.
Google Cloud Platform is a popular collection of public cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can help your business to extend your current IT assets with the Google Cloud, and Progent's DBA consultants can show you how to make your key apps cloud friendly so your remote workers can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent's consultants can help your business to deploy VMs on GCP Compute Engine, design an efficient storage solution with Google Cloud Storage, and simplify access control for remote workers with GCP Cloud Identity services. Progent's consultants can also assist you to use GCP's management technology to administer and track your Google Cloud environment. To find out, see Google Cloud Platform integration services.
Help Desk Call Center Support for Teleworkers
A sudden, organization-wide switchover to a teleworker workforce, which could be the result of a pandemic or as a component of a disaster recovery/business continuity plan, can overstretch even the most efficient internal Support Desk. Progent's Call Center services make it possible for organizations of any size to outsource or augment their Support Desk by using Progent's online Technical Response Center (TRC) team.
Cybersecurity for Remote Workers
Remote workers often run their personal computers and work in an unsecured space. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and demands careful use of firewalls, remote monitoring, and the creation of policies in compliance with best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of certified data security professionals can help your organization to plan, implement and manage a modern security solution that protects vital information in networks that incorporate teleworkers.
Data Protection for Telecommuters
The field of Data Protection involves backing up and restoring vital information in order to avoid data loss and reduce restoration time in case of storage system failures due to hardware breakdowns, programming hiccups, operator mistakes, cyber attack, or other causes. Dependable data protection solutions can be especially challenging to design and manage in hybrid networks that combine in-house data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for At-Home Workers
Microsoft has rebranded and reshuffled its endpoint management products under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud management of remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing onsite endpoints. Endpoint Manager features a unified environment for protecting critical data by controlling onsite, mobile, and at-home endpoint devices.
Microsoft Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also includes Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and protecting off-premises computers and applications. Remote endpoint computers can be personally owned or company owned. Network administrators managing the enrolled endpoint devices of at-home workers can utilize Intune to provision and authenticate apps on managed devices, push updates and certificates, set up policies for accessing data and networks, set passwords, create VPN tunnels, determine how teleworkers share information, set up threat protection, verify compliance, and wipe sensitive information from missing, stolen or deactivated endpoint devices. Intune runs with Apple iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X endpoints. To learn about Microsoft Intune and to find out how Progent can assist your company to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the endpoint devices of your at-home workers, see Intune teleworker endpoint management experts.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich centralized MDM platform that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoint devices up to date and secure. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint administration combined with VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery technology for access control, app management, and setup management of endpoint computers. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints 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 via a perpetual license. Top features of VMware Workspace ONE include rapid over-the-air deployment of out-of-the-box laptops, quick onboarding of new users, policy set up and enforcement for all classes of devices, unifies reporting and analytics, email encryption, and tight integration with Microsoft apps and cloud products. To find out about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, go to VMware Workspace ONE remote endpoint management consultants.
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