Progent's background providing Microsoft .NET services and SQL Server consulting, and Progent's programming experience with Microsoft VBasic, XML, and other developer platforms enable Progent to create custom mission-critical programs and eCommerce environments that integrate transparently with Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP reporting consultants can show you how to design reports that allow you to track your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked information into useful insights into your company and customers.
Nexus switches are engineered to deliver the throughput, scale, availability, virtualization support, density, data protection and manageability required to act as the foundation of an enterprise data center. Progent's Cisco-certified Nexus switch experts can provide online and onsite support expertise to assist you to design an optimal switch architecture, set up pilot environments to confirm your network design, deploy Nexus switches, define and enforce appropriate policies, perform security vulnerability assessments, configure advanced monitoring and alert systems, fully utilize resources through virtualization technologies, troubleshoot switching and routing issues, optimize performance, perform capacity planning, and set up the powerful zero-downtime features available for Cisco's Nexus family of switches. Progent's consultants can also help your business to upgrade non-disruptively from outdated Nexus switches or Catalyst switches to current Nexus platforms.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is an integrated library of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their operations by automating crucial sales activities including listings, orders, payments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's extensive online ecosystem and automating their sales processes, vendors can broaden their reach, lower their cost of sales, accelerate reaction time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service developers can work with your development staff and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training to help you cut development time and get to market quickly.
Progent's experienced Cisco IT security consultants provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services covering architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of protection, high throughput, and excellent reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed platform, minimizing common OS-specific security gaps.
Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consultants have extensive backgrounds developing Microsoft-based security designs for IT networks with many locations, mobile workers, and mission-critical web-based applications. A Progent ISA Server consultant is ready to help your small or mid-size business plan and implement a configuration of Microsoft ISA Server 2004 that supports your IT protection requirements without restricting your productivity.
Progent's experienced ransomware recovery consultants can help you to rebuild an IT network victimized by a ransomware crypto-worm such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, LockBit or Egregor.
Progent can assist small and medium-size companies to deploy and debug conferencing technology to allow their at-home workers to communicate productively with colleagues and clients.
Progent's software experts have worked for two decades with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development environment and are able to build or modernize .NET apps rapidly and at low cost.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help organizations of all sizes to follow leading practices to set up SCVMM 2012 hosts and host groups, fabric, storage systems, and library resources; plan, integrate, and administer private clouds, VMs, and VMM services in SCVMM 2012; and combine SCVMM 2012 with SCOM 2012 for comprehensive reporting. Progent can assist you to move from an earlier version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager or from a third-party virtualization management platform, and Progent can show you how you to enhance and troubleshoot your current SCVMM 2012 environment so you realize maximum business value.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2017 experts can assist you to plan and implement a cost-effective upgrade from your current SQL Server databases and applications to SQL Server 2017.
Progent's Cisco-certified IT experts can show you how to create an affordable, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet connectivity via a wide range of fault tolerant Internet access products and services including fault tolerant BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide CCIE engineers to show you how to utilize the most current technology for high availability Internet access to create an affordable, fully redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to create zero-downtime Internet connections.
Remote server management cards give IT administrators complete control of a server without the need for an on-site visit. Using remote management cards, all console screen information plus keyboard and mouse operations are transferred to a remote session to a support expert who can be located anywhere with Internet access. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants can help you to plan, deploy, and manage a high-availability business network that includes remote management cards and Progent can utilize these remote server management cards to deliver low-cost off-site technical support. Progent has experience with a number of remote management cards including Aten IP9001 remote management cards, American Megatrends MegaRAC remote management cards, Dell remote server management cards, HP Lights-Out 100c remote server management cards, and Peppercon eRIC remote management cards.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you plan, document, carry out, administer, and repair a system-wide migration to 64-bit server and client operating systems and applications. Progent can help you pilot your 64-bit environment to verify that it handles all of the key 32-bit programs that you want to retain as well as the latest 64-bit editions of applications you wish to install.
Progent's staff of Microsoft and Cisco Premier experts average more than a decade of hands-on professional experience, at the forefront of network support, performing a broad variety of IT projects for an extensive array of businesses. Each Progent consultant shares a proven collection of personal best practices that are combined into shared leading practices standards that Progent instills in its support personnel. This means that you get not only expert IT help, but also a support engineer with proven methods for applying technical knowledge to repair real-world IT problems quickly.
Progent's Citrix experts can help you to plan, deploy, administer, and support a virtualized Windows application delivery and management solution built on XenApp. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can show you how to optimize your network infrastructure for delivering server-side and client-side applications, and Progent's remote datacenter support consultants can help you to administer and maintain an off-site datacenter that offers high uptime, advanced protection, and rapid recovery.
Progent's Computer Call Center Outsourcing Support Services for desktop technical support are designed specifically for small businesses who require immediate access to a Help Desk Service Center with professional telephone support and full escalation capability but who have to operate within a restricted information technology budget. Key features of Progent's Help Desk Outsourcing Support Services include: Helpdesk Phone Support, Optional Remote Access Support, System Assessment, Problem Escalation, Virtual Help Desk Call Center Services, By-the-Minute Billing, and Helpdesk Software Recommendation and Integration.
Progent's Juniper-certified consultants can help your business plan the deployment of Juniper SSG integrated firewall/VPN products, configure security policies to match your operational requirements, set up network OS software to streamline management processes, migrate from legacy Juniper products, and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a experienced ransomware recovery consultant who can assist your business to contain the progress of an ongoing ransomware breach. Call 800-462-8800
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers indispensable, familiar tools to IT professionals and network users, lessening the difficulty of creating, deploying, administering, and accessing company data and database programs on platforms ranging from mobile devices to corporate data networks. The complexity and interconnectivity requirements of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 call for a network consultant with real-world expertise and wide knowledge in planning and deploying data-driven, comprehensive business technology applications. The knowledge and experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of over 10 years of professional work supporting Microsoft integration, assures you success in planning, deploying and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
NetApp MetroCluster is a disaster recovery software suite that uses failover storage clustering along with replication to deliver fast, zero RPO disaster recovery (DR) between sites that are up to 185 miles apart. Progent's roster of seasoned network consultants can help your business to design, deploy, manage, upgrade, test and repair a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can help you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional needs and IT budget. Progent can make sure you adhere to best practices for configuring your MetroCluster solution by delivering help with tasks such as assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, setting up FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your disaster recovery solution to prove compliance with information assurance standards and regulatory mandates.
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Before Progent's Microsoft Operations Manager solution, network issues were handled reactively, after users were impacted by them. With the benefit of proactive, automated warnings and trend analyses sent by MOM, Progent can now address server issues before they grow to be critical enough to disrupt network availability. Because of Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can resolve incipient problems before customers know that the problems exist. Progent supports Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to provide small company networks enterprise-class reliability, safety and productivity.
When conducting IT tasks for corporate customers, Progent uses a structured methodology driven by defined milestones in order to meet financial, scheduling and engineering goals while reducing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Project Methodology follows industry project management procedures derived from the leading practices described by the Microsoft Solutions Framework Project methodology which specifies requirements definition, architecture proposals, test models, design adjustments, and professional deployment. All facets are recorded to provide a comprehensive summary of IT services delivered and to help in ongoing system maintenance.
Progent's Cisco certified Wi-Fi consultants offer economical online and onsite support for both end-of-life and modern 802.11ac Aironet wireless access points (APs) and Progent can help you to design and maintain wireless environments that include indoor and outside/industrial Aironet APs.
Progent can help you in any and all facets of your upgrade to Exchange 2016 such as planning high availability architecture for a local, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid deployment; server and CAL licensing requirements for Exchange and Windows Server 2012 R2; moving mailboxes; Hyper-V virtualization design; determining mass storage capacity required for your virtual machines, mailbox databases and logs; configuring hardware load balancing (HLB) for fault-tolerant client access services; designing, configuring and testing Exchange and Windows Servers and DAG groups; setting up collaboration with SharePoint; updating the firewall; resolving SSL issues; performing client remediation with Office 2010 or greater or Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook on the web (formerly Outlook Web App).
System Center Configuration Manager automates software deployment across multiple sites, streamlines compliance settings control, keeps track of network assets, protects against corporate data leakage, provides network health monitoring, enables safe self service, and offers a common control mechanism for administering multi-operating system networks based on on-premises, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment models. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM consulting team and Azure cloud specialists can help businesses of any size with any aspect of planning, implementing, using and repairing a SCCM solution for on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid networks.
Microsoft Small Business Server is an affordable collection of essential servers that offers the basis for a feature-rich but manageable IT network. The inter-connectivity demands of the Microsoft .NET functions bundled with Small Business Server 2011 requires a network expert with real-world expertise and extensive knowledge in planning and implementing effective and comprehensive information technology systems. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have extensive experience with the technologies built into SBS 2011 and SBS 2008. This experience assures you success in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting network solutions based on the SBS line of servers and applications.
Progent uses a sophisticated service reporting system that records and formats detailed documentation for all delivered services. Unlike many independent consultants or small support firms who provide minimal documentation or specifics of services performed, each service delivered by Progent is tracked by full documentation. Every Progent consultant has use of the service reports transmitted by each consultant to each customer. The discipline of detailing and archiving support activity results in more efficient service and avoids a variety of common misfortunes such as when a service client is virtually held hostage to a consultant who refuses to let go of vital service information.
Progent's Wi-Fi IP phone configuration and troubleshooting experts can provide remote and on-premises support to help you build and administer a Cisco wireless IP phone solution by providing services that can range from debugging the set up of a wireless VoIP phone or AP to offering comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing for updating the wireless infrastructure of an entire campus.
Lync 2013, rebranded Skype for Business, enables businesses of all sizes to build a centrally managed and protected communications environment that permits the modern BYOD computing model with instant messaging, real-time presence, web meetings with application sharing and whiteboard, and both IP-based and PSTN calling enabled for a wide assortment of desktop and handheld devices. Progent's certified Lync Server 2013 consultants and system architects can help your company to assess the advantages of Lync Server 2013, design an in-house, cloud-based (with Microsoft Lync Online) or hybrid topology appropriate for your current and future plans, implement Lync 2013 so as to speed up your return on investment, and deliver live webinar and onsite training to your IT team and users. Progent has expertise in key components of a Lync Server 2013 deployment that include Windows Server, SQL Server Express and Exchange Server, and Progent can assist you to combine Lync 2013 with key Office and Microsoft 365 applications such as Outlook and PowerPoint.
Progent's IT outsourcing services for small companies include planning 2003 Server, .NET Server, and Microsoft BackOffice systems, managing upgrades to Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, and Exchange Server 2003, Help Desk services, remote and on-site repair, resolving chronic integration problems, and creating a company-wide security plan. Progent can help you enhance system availability and performance with non-stop configuration, redundant network architecture, and proactive server monitoring. Progent also offers project management assistance for major migrations and can assist with requirements assessment, product identification, BOM production, vendor qualification, purchasing logistics, and professional documentation. Progent's IT outsourcing help also features training for office productivity products such as Microsoft Office XP.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes significant improvements to the capabilities of its predecessor Exchange 2010 and delivers powerful innovations as well as a revamped structure. These enhancements favorably impact key IT areas including ease of administration, availability, security and compliance, cost of ownership, teamwork, scalability, performance, cross-version interoperability, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consulting experts can assist your organization to understand the possible advantages of upgrading to Exchange Server 2013, design a cost-effective test and deployment plan, and train your IT staff to maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 solution. Progent also offers ongoing online support and management for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting and Management outsourcing offers complete hosting of a small or mid-size company's production servers in an environment that delivers the highest level of dependability and scalability and is also easy to migrate to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting services are built on mature virtualization techniques that allow small businesses with multi- platform environments to economize significantly on the costs of capital investments, infrastructure maintenance, and network administration while achieving world-class reliability and an unprecedented degree of vendor independence.
Progent's application developers have worked for two decades with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development environment and can build or enhance .NET applications rapidly and affordably.
Progent can help your organization to utilize Cisco's networking technology to create a robust basis for your local, cloud-centric, or hybrid data center and streamline operations in vital areas such as hardware consolidation, security and compliance, versatility, reliability, and disaster recovery.
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an extensive examination given by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier Cybersecurity audit professional trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, protection of data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.
Key features of Microsoft Dynamics GP accounting include a modular design that allows you to license just the functionality you need, a standardized foundation based on Microsoft technologies to secure your investment and provide a tightly interconnected environment, enhanced reporting services that permit you to monitor all activities, revenues and expenses and sales patterns, compatibility with Microsoft Office to speed access to corporate data, the ability to process information from virtually any db software or desktop application into Microsoft GP/Great Plains, plus an open design that makes it possible to develop specialized applications. Progent can show you how to set up and maintain a reliable, secure server and communications network to support Dynamics GP, and can offer expert GP consultants to help you turn the powerful features of Dynamics GP accounting into a productive business management solution.
Progent's certified security staff can help you protect your Apple Mac environment through professional support offerings such as running security tests, recovery from virus and worm attacks, setting up firewalls, implementing safe remote and mobile access, installing monitoring software for protection against viruses, spam, and malware, and developing a company-wide security strategy appropriate for the particular goals of your corporate network.
Progent's team of Microsoft and Cisco Certified experts average longer than ten years of hands-on professional background, at the forefront of IT service, executing a wide range of technical tasks for a large array of clients. Each Progent support professional shares a refined set of personal best practices which are combined into company-wide best practices training that Progent instills in its support team. This guarantees that you get not only world-class technical help, but also a support engineer with field-tested approaches for applying computer knowledge to resolve real-world IT problems quickly.
SQL Server 2005 offers powerful, standardized tools to computer experts and network users, lessening the difficulty of creating, integrating, administering, and using enterprise information and analytical applications in environments ranging from handheld devices to corporate data systems. The complexity and integration requirements of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for a network consulting firm with hands-on experience and wide knowledge in designing and building information-based, comprehensive business IT solutions. The expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of more than 10 years of background supporting Microsoft integration, ensures you success in designing, configuring and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 solutions that are seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Lync Server 2013, renamed Skype for Business, allows businesses of any size to build a manageable and secure communications environment that permits a BYOD computing style with instant messaging (IM), presence, audio/video and web conferencing with app sharing, as well as IP and PSTN calling enabled for a wide assortment of stationary PCs and mobile devices. Progent's certified Lync Server 2013 consultants and network architects can help your company to evaluate the advantages of Lync Server 2013, design an on-premises, cloud-resident (via Microsoft Lync Online) or hybrid topology suitable for your current and future plans, deploy Lync Server 2013 in a way that expedites your ROI, and deliver live webinar and on-premises training to your management staff and end users. Progent offers in-depth expertise in critical components of a Lync Server 2013 deployment including Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server Express and Exchange, and Progent can help your organization to integrate Lync 2013 with key Microsoft 365 applications such as Outlook and PowerPoint.
Colocation sites allow companies to share enterprise-class data centers for hosting network hardware that runs vital applications and services. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants can help your company with all aspects of your colocation program including choosing and migrating to a colo site, designing system topology, defining hardware, on-site and on-line maintenance, setting up remote system administration, and education your IT personnel.
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified Windows Server 2022 experts can help your organization to design and implement an efficient migration to Windows Server 2022 using a self-hosted system architecture or a hybrid deployment model that integrates cloud-based Windows Server on Azure with an on-site installation of Windows Server 2022.
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, formerly branded SyteLine, is an ERP platform that incorporates more than a quarter century of background helping manufacturing and service organizations to simplify supply chains and streamline critical business processes in order to bring products to market fast and adhere to customer commitments consistently. Progent offers the skills of an ERP consultant with more than two decades of experience with the Infor CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine product family. Progent offers remote or onsite services that can range from as-needed advice to comprehensive solution design and project management. Sample consulting services offered by Progent for Infor CloudSuite Industrial include installation, upgrades, business analysis, application development, Configure/Price/ Quote, web site integration, technical support, data conversion, Amazon AWS integration, training, and database administration.
Progent can assist you in all phases of your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 such as planning high availability (HA) system topology for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid environment; CAL licensing compliance for Exchange Server and Windows Server 2012 R2; migrating mailboxes; Windows Hyper-V design; specifying storage capacity required for your virtual machines, mailbox databases and log files; configuring hardware load balancing for high-availability client access services; designing, configuring and validating Exchange and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; updating the firewall; resolving SSL issues; providing client integration with Office desktop or Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook on the web.
Progent can help you plan and implement a smooth migration to Dynamics GP so that you retain your data, improve your security, modernize your analytics, take complete advantage of Microsoft Office support, and minimize business disruption by designing and following a smart migration strategy. Progent can also help educate new Dynamics GP 2010 users so you don't lose productivity. Progent can enhance your financial reports and management analytics by providing Crystal Reports consulting, FRx programming, and Microsoft Excel support. Progent's background with Microsoft .NET development, Microsoft SQL Server solutions, and designing with VBasic, XML and other tools make it possible to produce custom line-of-business software and eCommerce solutions that integrate transparently with Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
System Center Configuration Manager 2016 automates application and device deployment at scale, centralizes compliance settings control, keeps track of network assets, guards against corporate data leakage, provides network health monitoring, enables secure self service, and delivers a common control mechanism for managing mixed-OS networks running on-prem, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment models. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM 2016 consultants and Azure cloud integration specialists can assist your organization with any aspect of designing, implementing, using and repairing a System Center 2016 Configuration Manager solution for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.
If your office network combines UNIX, Linux or Sun Solaris platforms with MS Windows, Progent can help you to integrate your computers into a cohesive network that allows all your operating systems to coexist for simple management, transparent dataflow, high availability, enhanced performance, and tight protection. Progent's UNIX/Linux/Solaris and Windows coexistence support offerings include network infrastructure integration and service, support for Windows services for UNIX, online network monitoring and administration, online network support and repair, in-person technical support, and Help Desk Call Center support.
Altaro VM Backup from Hornetsecurity offers small organizations a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in on-premises, remote, multi-site, and cloud architectures and also supports cost-effective backup to Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup defends against ransomware attacks by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This creates tamper-proof data that cannot be erased or modified by any user including root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a wide array of online or on-premises consulting services to assist you to plan, install, manage and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution based on Altaro VM Backup. With ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/restore service based on Altaro VM Backup technology.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated library of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their operations by automating key sales functions such as listings, orders, payments, fulfillment, and finances. By tapping into Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales processes, merchants can expand their market, reduce their operating costs, improve reaction time to customers, and add to their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can work with your development team and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training to help you shorten development time and costs and speed up your return on investment.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi network design experts can help your business to design, implement, tune, manage and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi network adapted to your building. Progent can provide remote or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design, Ekahau Sidekick for on-premises RF signal measurement, Ekahau Analyzer for resolving RF signal problems, and Ekahau Insights for tracking the performance of multiple Wi-Fi sites.
Progent's National Support Center offers nationwide remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small office information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service professionals offer telephone help and remote direct computer access to troubleshoot and repair technical problems quickly and economically. The breadth of IT experience available from Progent's team of country-wide support engineers allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult problems to appropriate experts as required.
Progent can provide expert remote support services to help companies connect their IT infrastructure with popular public cloud platforms including Azure and Amazon AWS. Progent can help your IT team to design and administer cost-effective ecosystems that support Windows and Linux operating systems and applications in both cloud-based systems or in hybrid architectures that utilize on-premises resources along with public cloud services. To help you to integrate cloud services with physical datacenters, Progent can provide a range of public cloud migration support services such as Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and integration consulting, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service development and debugging. Progent has over two decades of experience providing high-level consulting expertise remotely, and Progent can help you successfully carry out your cloud migration initiatives quickly and within your budget.
Progent can help your business to design and implement an efficient migration from a UNIX-powered information system to a network powered by MS Windows and capable of supporting Microsoft's popular office productivity suites, commercial applications, and software development platforms. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco consultants and application experts can assist you to guard your information and minimize business disruption by designing an effective transition strategy that protects your existing assets in UNIX application and technology. UNIX-to-Windows transition consulting expertise offered by Progent include evaluation of current infrastructure, transition planning and testing, MS Exchange migration support, information and application software porting, and server and storage system transition and consolidation.