For mid-size companies looking for network support, Progent can deliver a variety of options including local help, remote support, phone-based Help Desk, 24x7 support with remote system monitoring, temporary staff augmentation, business relocation services, software development, and expert consulting. For medium-size businesses in California or other regions covered by Progent's onsite consultants, Progent provides expert onsite help for fixing network problems quickly and economically.
Progent's staff of Microsoft and Cisco Premier Certified consultants average more than ten years of real-world industry background, at the front lines of network support, performing a broad range of technical tasks for an extensive array of clients. Every Progent consultant shares a refined collection of personal best practices which are incorporated into shared leading practices training that Progent teaches its support team. This means that you get not only expert IT capability, but also a consultant with field-tested approaches for applying computer knowledge to solve actual IT problems rapidly.
Progent's Reseller Program for IT Service Firms lets you take advantage of Progent's consulting experts while retaining your own service brand as a seamless extension of your IT services staff.
Progent's Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 consultants can help businesses to incorporate Office desktop and Microsoft 365 apps including Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Project and Publisher into a cohesive solution that provides fast return on investment and promotes better business results. Progent can assist your company to integrate Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 apps with one another and with other core Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also help you to fix compatibility issues with various releases of Microsoft Office desktop and offers customized online training to individual users and groups.
Microsoft Exchange and Apple Mac workstations can work together efficiently. Progent's Apple and Microsoft premier consultants can show you how to set up Microsoft Entourage and Exchange so your Mac users can work closely with teammates who use Microsoft Outlook. With Microsoft Exchange and Entourage 2008 or 2004 for Mac, Exchange and Apple Macintosh systems can collaborate, enabling Mac users to receive and send email, search the GAL, import addresses, synchronize appointments, and alert people to meetings with your Exchange account. Progent will verify that your Microsoft Server is properly set up and that LDAP and Outlook Web Access are enabled. Progent also can provide specialized onsite Entourage education.
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized organizations to diagram, monitor, enhance and troubleshoot their connectivity appliances like switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, endpoints and other networked devices. Incorporating cutting-edge RMM technology, WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology diagrams are always updated, copies and manages the configuration of virtually all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and sends notices when potential issues are detected. By automating complex network management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary chores like network mapping, reconfiguring your network, finding appliances that need important updates, or isolating performance bottlenecks.
Progent's Juniper Networks-authorized NetScreen engineer can help your company to configure and integrate NetScreen 5000 series routers, upgrade from older NetScreen devices to the latest Juniper products, and repair network infrastructure issues in Juniper-only or mixed-technology systems.
Remote management cards offer network managers complete control over a server without the requirement for a personal visit. Through remote server management cards, all console screen data plus keyboard and mouse functionality are exported to a remote session to an IT professional who can be situated anywhere with Internet access. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers can assist you to design, implement, and manage a high-availability company network that includes remote management cards and Progent can utilize these remote management cards to provide low-cost off-site technical help. Progent has experience with a number of remote management cards such as Aten remote management cards, American Megatrends remote management cards, Dell remote server management cards, HP Lights-Out remote management cards, and Peppercon remote management cards.
Progent can assist companies of any size to move all or part of their network infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud. This can simplify IT administration and lower equipment expense. Microsoft Azure offers a comprehensive library of public cloud services and Progent can help you to evaluate the advantages and limitations of different cloud computing models you can use with Azure. Progent can show you how to administer cloud-based or hybrid cloud and on-premises apps and network infrastructure and ensure that you sidestep the typical mistakes small companies make when moving to a public cloud. Progent can assist you to set up cloud servers on Azure Virtual Machines, utilize cloud storage with Azure Storage, manage authentication with Azure Active Directory, and automate transparent backup mechanisms with Azure Backup. Progent can also show you how to prepare perimeter firewalls and VPN tunnels and to integrate Apple iOS devices and Google Android handhelds.
Catalyst family of wireless controllers streamline the management of wireless networks by unifying the provisioning and control of Wi-Fi APs, tuning Wi-Fi performance by limiting the impact of radio frequency congestion, improving wireless availability with rapid failover, and strengthening data security by identifying cyber threats and filtering network traffic based on user type and locale. Progent's Wi-Fi consultants can help you to deploy Cisco wireless LAN controllers to manage Wi-Fi networks of all sizes. Progent can assist you to administer and debug your existing Cisco Wi-Fi solution or implement a smooth upgrade to Cisco's modern wireless controller technology.
Progent's Technical Response Center offers affordable nationwide after-hours online help for IT networks based on Windows and Cisco products and technologies. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support engineers offer 24x7 telephone support and online direct network access to isolate and resolve technical problems quickly and economically.
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Progent offers clients the services of engineers who have been awarded some of the computer industry's most prestigious certifications. Progent thinks that customers have the right to know that their computer service consultants have accredited testing plus extensive real-world backgrounds so that Progent's clients can use Progent's service with trust. Often, vendor credentials like the Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts confers priority for substantially superior vendor help than is offered to non-certified service providers, enabling Progent to deliver clients a higher level of computer service. In addition, recognized certifications such as CISSP or ISSEP for network security can aid enterprise customers to show compliance with regulatory demands by using the services of recognized IT professionals.
Progent's compensation model is built on contribution, so similar to being a freelance consultant, your earnings are entirely driven by your work effort. Some Progent support staff stress quality of life and elect to work at a more relaxed pace, utilizing our self-determined schedule to pursue personal pursuits such as mountain biking, car racing, skiing, fishing, travel, or sharing free time with family and friends. Other consultants use the chance to earn big bucks through lots of effort and long hours. Progent completely encourages either side of the spectrum plus everything in between.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the advantages of Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, create test systems and migration plans, optimize your infrastructure for local, multi-location, private or public cloud-based, and hybrid datacenters, train your IT management team, create a corporate-wide security strategy, streamline network administration, assist with application development, and generate and validate a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Progent's certified Windows 2000 consulting staff can help you optimize the functionality of your existing Windows 2K Servers and can streamline system administration, offer tech support and repair, and enhance security. Progent can also show you how to design, rationalize, and implement a plan to migrate from Windows Server 2000 to Windows 2003 Server. Progent is experienced in setting up pilot installations to reduce the technical risk involved with migrating to Windows 2003 Server by uncovering possible hardware and application compatibility problems.
In addition to providing access to Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) consultants, Progent has consultants experienced in Dynamics AX (Axapta), Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, Macola ERP, MAS 90 by Sage Software, and QuickBooks Pro. Progent can provide software development, troubleshooting, management help, migration support, and 1-on-1 or group webinar training classes customized to meet your particular needs. Progent's experts also can show you how to build and maintain a secure, reliable network infrastructure to run your ERP, MRP and accounting solutions.
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can deliver low-cost remote and on-premises support to carry out your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2010, generate thorough documentation of your new email environment, train your network support staff and users to get them up to speed quickly on Exchange Server 2010, and offer ongoing management services and engineering help. Progent can also assist you to upgrade from Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2013 or Exchange 2016.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide online or in-person support to assist businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, administer, and repair a backup/restore system built around System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (SCDPM 2012). Progent can help you to migrate from older versions of Data Protection Manager or from another backup system, and Progent can optimize your SCDPM 2012 deployment for on premises, cloud-based, or hybrid datacenters. Progent can provide occasional help for resolving particularly challenging issues, or comprehensive project management services. Progent's consultants can also assist you to incorporate SCDPM 2012 into an enterprise-class disaster recovery strategy.
Progent's Windows 11 consulting experts offer a range of services for Windows 11 such as cloud and hybrid solutions, mobile management and synchronization, telecommuter access, data and identity security, streamlined deployment, and Help Desk support services.
Remote continuous network monitoring, proactive alarms, and actionable reports are vital to maintaining the health of your network and eliminating unnecessary and costly disruptions. Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solutions have progressed to the point that companies of all sizes can afford a level of network stability that was once limited to large enterprises. Progent offers a variety Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) options delivered as low-cost service packages designed to assist you to identify and fix a an array of network issues before they can impact your business.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can show you how to rationalize the economic case for deploying SharePoint 2007, consult with you on the most appropriate version of Microsoft SharePoint for your application, provide setup and integration services, assist you to install MS SQL Server as a back-end database, improve your network infrastructure, integrate your off-the-shelf and customized application programs to operate with Microsoft SharePoint 2007, develop a company-wide security strategy that encompasses portal technology, and deliver troubleshooting and Help Desk support.
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) provide a major performance boost compared to Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X security appliances and include unified management of advanced security capabilities such as application visibility, next-generation intrusion protection with intelligent prioritization of risks, advanced malware protection (AMP), DDoS mitigation, and multi-node sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified firewall consultants can help your organization to plan and execute a smooth migration to Cisco Firepower firewalls from Cisco's legacy ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX firewalls and show you how to enhance Firepower firewalls with Cisco's cloud-based services to create and centrally control IT ecosystems that include branch offices, data centers, private clouds and public clouds.
Progent's certified consultants can provide remote and on-premises consulting expertise to assist you to administer, maintain, and troubleshoot PCs based on Windows 7 and also offers help with migrating to Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 from Windows 7. Progent can provide support for change management, network security, backup and restore, online access, smartphone and tablet integration, wireless network design, and remote network monitoring and alerts.
Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can help you to assess the strategic value of the various editions of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, help you to integrate Citrix administration tools in your Hyper-V environment, and demonstrate to you how to use Citrix Essentials to improve the performance, availability, flexibility, and recoverability of your virtual environment while reducing the cost of equipment and support and simplifying management tasks.
Progent's accredited security and compliance engineers can provide cybersecurity audits of enterprise-wide security to validate your organization's cybersecurity profile adherence to key international cybersecurity standards. Progent offers ongoing managed services for security monitoring, on-demand company-wide security reviews, and focused cybersecurity evaluations for critical areas of cybersecurity such as Active Directory or cloud applications. Progent's qualified security engineers can also conduct comprehensive information security assessments to determine your company's compliance with recognized industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO.
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, subscription-based backup and disaster recovery service for small and mid-size businesses. A Barracuda Backup deployment can incorporate a purpose-built physical storage device built by Barracuda or a virtual appliance with comparable functionality but which utilizes your existing storage infrastructure. Barracuda Backup protects vital business data generated on-premises, at one or multiple remote locations, or in the cloud. For disaster protection, you can replicate data to the Barracuda Cloud, to Amazon AWS, or to any location with a physical or virtual Barracuda Backup appliance. Progent is a certified Barracuda partner and Progent's Barracuda Backup consultants offer a broad range of consulting support services to help your business to design, integrate, operate and troubleshoot a BDR system built on Barracuda technology.
Progent's Support for IT Service Organizations lets you use Progent's consulting experts under your own service brand as a seamless arm of your IT consulting team.
Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and medium-size businesses to plan, deploy, optimize, manage, and debug computer networks that support telecommuters.
Progent's certified consultants can help you to pilot Windows 7 to confirm application and driver compatibility and to check its performance and reliability working in your environment. Progent's consultants can also help you to estimate the potential business benefits of moving to Microsoft Windows 7. If you decide that Microsoft Windows 7 makes sense for your business strategy, Progent can help your IT organization to design and carry out a non-disruptive upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 from a your current version of Microsoft Windows.
Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can design, configure, and manage a deployment of 365 Total Backup to preserve your Microsoft 365 mailboxes, files residing within your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint Document Libraries, user and group Teams Chats, plus files on Windows-powered endpoints.
Catalyst line of Wi-Fi controllers streamline the management of Wi-Fi networks by unifying the configuration and management of Wi-Fi access points, optimizing Wi-Fi performance by reducing the effect of RF congestion, improving wireless uptime with fast auto-failover, and hardening data security by detecting threats and filtering network traffic according to user class and location. Progent's Wi-Fi consultants can assist your business to configure Cisco Wi-Fi controller appliances to manage wireless LANs of all sizes. Progent can assist you to administer and troubleshoot your existing Cisco-based Wi-Fi solution or carry out an efficient migration to Cisco's modern wireless controller solutions.
Progent offers access to a senior specialist with extensive hands-on experience configuring, maintaining, and enhancing video conferencing platforms from top-tier vendors such as Cisco, TANDBERG, Polycom, and LifeSize. Progent can coordinate with your in-house IT support group, your Internet Service Provider, and your video conferencing platform supplier to help your company maximize the strategic value of your video conferencing ecosystem.
Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and mid-size companies to design, implement, optimize, manage, and debug IT networks that support teleworkers.
Microsoft Lync Server 2013, rebranded Skype for Business, enables businesses of all sizes to create a manageable and protected communications environment that supports the modern BYOD computing style with instant messaging (IM), presence, audio/video and web meetings with app sharing and whiteboard, and both IP and PSTN calling across a wide range of stationary PCs and mobile devices. Progent's certified Lync Server 2013 consultants and system integrators can assist your company to assess the business benefits of Lync 2013, design an in-house, cloud-based (via Lync Online) or mixed topology suitable for your current and future plans, implement Lync Server 2013 so as to speed up your return on investment, and deliver live webinar and on-premises training to your management staff and end users. Progent offers in-depth expertise in key components of a Lync 2013 deployment including Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange Server, and Progent can assist your organization to integrate Lync 2013 with popular Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 apps such as Outlook clients and PowerPoint.
Progent can deliver a variety of affordable online and onsite consulting services to help you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot workstations and handhelds powered by Microsoft Windows, macOS/OS X, Apple iOS, Android, or Linux.
Progent can assist you to plan and implement an efficient move from on-premises Active Directory to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid solution that uses Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to unify identity management for both onsite and Azure assets.
Progent's Cisco Catalyst 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Access Point consultants can provide economical remote and on-premises support for Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 wireless access points.
Progent's UNIX platform support experts offer small companies and developers support for managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that run with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your business contact with UNIX consultants, consulting professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA and CISSP certification. This broad range of expertise offers you an easy one-stop consulting firm to show you how to build and maintain a protected and reliable mixed-platform network and communications environment that supports UNIX and Microsoft interoperability by combining Windows with popular versions of UNIX such as Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX, and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX or leading Linux derivatives such as RedHat Linux, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
For small companies interested in Progent's network support outsourcing, design expertise, or troubleshooting offerings, call 800-993-9400 or send email to information@progent.com.
Progent can provide the support of a certified VMware VCDX consultant to help you design, configure, manage and repair VMware vSphere-based virtualization solution for local datacenters, cloud environments, or hybrid deployments. Progent can provide world-class knowledge for deploying and integrating VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware's NSX virtual network platform for disaster recovery and application continuity. Progent has in-depth understanding of VMware vCloud Director (vCD), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO and vCloud Suite used for managing private and hybrid cloud solutions that provide maximum availability, fault tolerance, and application mobility.
SSL VPN makes it possible to establish a secure Internet connection between an enterprise network and virtually any remote computer without the need for pre-installed client software. Progent's Juniper-certified consultants can help you design, manage, and troubleshoot SSL VPN solutions based on Juniper's AS Series of remote access appliances.
Progent's Cisco certified networking experts can assist you to maintain older PIX 500 or ASA 5500 firewalls or transition to Cisco ASA 5500-X security appliances. Progent can also help you to set up, administer, upgrade and debug Cisco ASA 5500-X security appliances with Firepower Services.
Progent has two decades of background helping small and medium-size companies to plan, install, optimize, manage, and debug computer networks that incorporate at-home workers.
Progent can provide the services of an accredited engineer with an extensive background deploying products from the major video conferencing/telepresence providers including Cisco, Polycom, and LifeSize and can assist your company to plan, configure, upgrade, or maintain a telepresence solution that protects your investment and maximizes the business value of your IT system. Progent can also provide the services of network infrastructure consultants able to help companies of any size to build and maintain a network that delivers the speed, reliability, security, and scalability required to support your video conferencing/telepresence environment.
Progent provides Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server consulting to help your business implement zero-downtime clustered servers that can provide 100% operation. Windows cluster servers for zero-downtime networks include Windows Cluster Server, SQL Server Cluster, and Exchange Cluster Server. By assisting you t design high availability server clustering solutions around Microsoft Windows Clustered Server 2003, Progent's Certified Windows professionals make sure that your high availability clustered servers are configured to optimize the strategic advantage of your information system.
Progent's Microsoft consultants offer advanced expertise in implementing, using and troubleshooting any edition of Project, Project Server, and Microsoft Project Online and can deliver a wide variety of cost-effective online support services based on proven best practices to assist businesses of all sizes to receive all the advantages of this leading project management solution. Consulting support available from Progent include system design, installation and upgrades, setting up secure collaboration among local and remote or mobile users, network optimization, and specialized webinar training classes.
Dynamics GP 2010 software is a comprehensive business management platform that unifies data and operations throughout your company, communicates seamlessly with other applications, and brings together workers, clients and vendors regardless of time or location. Designed for small to mid-size companies, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 and MS Dynamics GP Release 10.0 deliver capability for financials, analytics and reporting, project management, inventory and order processing, e-commerce, HRM, customer relationship management, field service, manufacturing, retail management, and web-based business services. Progent can show you how to install and manage a robust, secure computer and communications environment to support Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, and can provide experienced Great Plains consultants to help your business benefit from the full potential of Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide businesses of all sizes consulting, technical support, and development expertise for SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an advanced platform that uses web technology for intelligently coordinating people, teams and data. SharePoint provides a common spot for your workers or clients to connect to, manage, share and manipulate useful information, files, and software and to communicate with one another. SharePoint allows quicker and better decisions, more efficient access across teams and more economical business processes. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, customers, workgroups and major tasks with the knowledge they've created in a way that makes data convenient to locate, download and re-use. Progent's SharePoint experts can help your organization to support your existing SharePoint environment or upgrade to the latest version of SharePoint.