Progent's Apple Mac networking consultants can assist you with a broad range of network infrastructure issues including network architecture, remote and mobile connectivity, internetwork communication, protection, and emerging technologies such as VoIP and high-speed wireless connectivity. For business networks based exclusively on Apple Mac OS X or for systems incorporating a mix of Mac, Linux/UNIX and Windows powered servers and desktops, Progent has the experience and size to deal with the challenge of planning, configuring, and supporting a system architecture that is robust, safe, efficient and supportive of your business objectives. Progent can help you configure Apple's Xserve enterprise servers, Xserve RAID fault-tolerant storage products, and Xsan SAN systems. Progent can also give you access to skilled professionals to help you with Cisco routers and switches.
Windows Server 2008 represents an important step forward in making information systems more secure and fault tolerant, simpler to virtualize and administer, faster, and able to offer an improved environment for web hosting and development. Progent can assist your company benefit fully from the enhancements built into Windows Server 2008 by delivering Microsoft-certified consulting, tech support, education, staffing, network monitoring, and security services.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide organizations of any size consulting, technical support, and development services for SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an enterprise platform that utilizes web technology for intelligently coordinating people, teams and data. Microsoft SharePoint offers a common spot for your workers or clients to access, organize, distribute and interact with useful information, files, and applications and to interact with other people. SharePoint enables quicker and more intelligent decisions, more efficient access across groups and more streamlined business practices. Windows SharePoint Services connect employees, clients, workgroups and major tasks with the knowledge they've created in a way that makes data convenient to find, download and re-use. Progent's certified SharePoint experts can assist your organization to manage your current SharePoint solution or migrate to the latest release of SharePoint Server or to SharePoint Online.
If your company does not need emergency online help but expects to require assistance with your network soon, you can conserve time and money and ensure that the right expertise will be available when you need it by getting in touch with a Progent sales agent and signing up as a client. For more information, call 800-993-9400 or send email to information@progent.com.
Progent's IT outsourcing packages offer budget-friendly computer consulting for small organizations. Whether it includes designing system architecture, creating an internal Help Desk or using an outside one, deploying an updated email system, monitoring your system, or creating a web-based business application, outsourcing your IT engineering services can reduce costs and minimize uncertainties, permitting IT support budgets to increase in a more linear and manageable manner than is feasible by assembling a large, all-purpose internal network support organization. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets show how Progent can enable you to create a protected and highly available network architecture for your vital applications based on Microsoft Windows.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi network design experts can help you to plan, install, enhance, manage and debug a Wi-Fi solution adapted to your building. Progent offers online or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design, Ekahau Sidekick for on-premises RF analysis, Ekahau Analyzer for resolving RF issues, and Ekahau Insights for managing the health of multiple Wi-Fi sites.
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 offers major improvements in performance, capacity, data security, availability, BOYD integration, and integrated analytics and reporting. New features include PolyBase for handling structured and unstructured files in one appliance for big data applications, R language integration, Dynamic Data Masking, Mobile Reports, and seamless control over local and cloud operations and services. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can deliver online and onsite expertise to help businesses of any size to configure, administer or troubleshoot any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also help you to integrate SQL Server 2016 with other core Microsoft products such as Windows Server and Hyper-V, Exchange Server 2016, SharePoint Server, Dynamics GP, Lync or Skype for Business, and SCOM.
Progent's webinars offer small companies the affordability, convenience, and versatility of online learning and the proven pedagogic methods of experienced instructors who use the latest collaboration software to reproduce real-time, interactive classrooms. Progent offers remote education for key desktop applications including elements of Microsoft Office suite such as Office Excel, Word, Access, and Outlook: MS Dynamics business accounting and reporting products including MS Dynamics GP (Great Plains); as well as other top desktop applications like Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat Writer, and Crystal Reports.
Progent's IT outsourcing services provide budget-friendly network consulting for small businesses. Whether it involves planning network infrastructure, setting up an internal Help Desk or outsourcing a one, rolling out a new email platform, monitoring your system, or creating an on-line business solution, outsourcing your network technical services can contain costs and eliminate uncertainties, permitting network service expenses to increase in a more moderate and controlled fashion than is possible by building up a large, knowledgeable internal network support staff. Progent's Outsourcing White Paper and datasheets explain how Progent can help you build a secure and highly available network architecture for your critical applications powered by Windows.
Microsoft Systems Management Server provides added functionality for change and configuration management of Windows-based systems via introducing Feature Packs. Feature Packs lower the overall administrative expense of managing and configuring software by making it easier to copy system images, control mobile devices, and run management utilities. In addition to alerting you about techniques to cut management expenses by installing SMS 2003 Feature Packs, Progent's consultants can show you how to prepare and perform IT tasks that cover processes that Feature Packs are intended to streamline. Progent's migration and upgrade services can minimize cost and eliminate business disruption as you move to the latest operating systems and applications. Progent's wireless engineers can show you how to develop efficient processes and policies to manage handheld computers and smart mobile phones so your field force stays productive and secure. Progent's CISSP-certified engineers and CISM-certified security experts can help you develop a security plan that incorporates policies, procedures and technologies to keep your IT computer system protected.
Progent's support experts in Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows technology can help you combine Apple Macintosh and Windows systems into cohesive networks with full sharing and workgroup support. Enabling productive cooperation among a variety of servers and workstations powered by Mac OS and Microsoft Windows requires extensive knowledge of and experience with Mac and Microsoft products. Progent's background in Microsoft and Apple service makes it possible to offer expert assistance to companies that rely on these platforms to keep their competitive advantage. Progent's consultants can also assist you to integrate Apple's iPhones and iPads with your Windows environment.
Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) is a low-cost collection of server products that provides the foundation for a powerful but manageable IT network. The integration requirements of the Microsoft .NET components bundled with Small Business Server 2011 requires an IT consultant with real-world background and broad experience in designing and building effective and comprehensive information technology systems. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have broad experience with the technologies incorporated in Microsoft SBS 2011 and Microsoft SBS 2008. This expertise assures you success in installing, administering, and servicing IT environments based on the SBS suite of servers and applications.
Microsoft ISA 2006 is a multi-functional edge gateway that offers a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), proxy, and Web caching solution for safeguarding the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a wide range of attacks. Progent's certified ISA Server consultants can show you how to plan, rationalize, test, install, configure and manage the any version of ISA Server 2006 on your network.
Progent's Windows consultants can assist businesses of any size to evaluate Windows 10 or to upgrade to Windows 10 from any earlier release of Windows. Online and onsite evaluation and upgrade services for Windows 10 offered by Progent's experts include Return on Investment analysis, project supervision, application compatibility testing, test lab systems, Hyper-V virtualization strategies, Cloud and hybrid solutions, mobile management and synchronization, teleworker connectivity, security and compliance, streamlined provisioning and management, network infrastructure optimization, Wi-Fi support, disaster recovery planning, group and personal training for network management personnel and end users, and post-migration Call Center support services.
Progent has been providing SharePoint consulting services since the first product was released over two decades ago, and Progent has the breadth and depth of technical knowledge to help businesses of all sizes to plan and carry out a SharePoint Server 2013 installation and develop SharePoint Server 2013 apps that add substantial business value to your information network. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to evaluate the risks and benefits of migrating to SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online from legacy releases of SharePoint or from another collaboration environment; decide if an in-house, online or hybrid configuration is best suited for your busi9ness; and pick the most appropriate version of SharePoint 2013 for your purposes. Progent offers full project management services or can assist in specific tasks related to your SharePoint 2013 deployment.
Progent offers fast online support from Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure consultants. Progent's CCIE consultants can link to your environment using powerful remote support utilities to provide fast and economical troubleshooting and remediation of urgent network infrastructure issues.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to assess the business value of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop test systems and rollout strategies, optimize your network infrastructure for on-premises, multi-site, cloud-based, and hybrid environments, educate your IT management, team, develop a corporate-wide security strategy, streamline IT administration, help with creating applications, and build and test a DR/BC plan.
Progent's Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) consultants have in-depth experience assisting small businesses to reduce system downtime by providing cost-effective online consulting support for disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) planning, fault-tolerant IT design, data backup and restore systems, and transparent maintenance. Progent's business continuity consultants can assist you to develop and validate an efficient business continuity strategy that matches your business goals and budget. Progent's disaster recovery engineers can help you to architect, implement, and manage fault-tolerant technologies including redundant Internet access, virtualization, fail-over clustering, network load balancing, transparent off-site backup, and geographically dispersed data centers.
For smaller businesses, computer security and regulatory compliance can be too complex to master yet too dangerous to ignore. The world's biggest institutions have been hacked, and the leading cloud services have occasionally been knocked out. It seems like there's nowhere to hide. Progent has made it economical for smaller organizations to carry out critical security projects effectively by offering the advantage of billed time to the closest minute with no minimum charge for online help. This means you can have access to a world-class computer expert to deliver just the help you need whenever you require it. Progent's CISA, CISM, GIAC, CISSP and ISSAP premier security experts can help you with any level of network security including security audits, virus screening and recovery, spam and email content filtering, email data loss prevention, regulatory compliance reporting, and designing a comprehensive security plan.
Microsoft has made a strong effort to enable transparent hybrid environments that integrate Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange systems. This allows you to have specific mailboxes hosted on your on-premises datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can help your organization with any phase of planning, integrating and debugging your hybrid Exchange Online deployment. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver as-needed expertise to help you resolve challenging technical bottlenecks and also can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange initiative is carried out on time and within budget.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated library of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to streamline their business processes by automating key sales activities such as listings, orders, shipments, fulfillment, and finances. By tapping into Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales processes, vendors can broaden their market, reduce their cost of sales, improve reaction time to customers, and increase their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service developers can collaborate with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can shorten development time and get to market quickly.
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified Windows Server 2022 consultants can assist your organization to design and carry out a cost-effective migration to Windows Server 2022 using a self-hosted deployment architecture or a hybrid deployment model that combines cloud-based Windows Server Online with a self-hosted implementation of Windows Server 2022.
If you want to revamp your production web site, create internal webs for purposes such as human resources or employee education, design a high-impact web presence for a new business, or generate line-of-business, data-driven custom web applications, Progent can supply talented and experienced web designers. Progent's experts can also help you design and manage a secure, fault-tolerant server and communications network, including off-site and wireless connectivity, to run your web solutions.
Progent's Cisco-Certified technology experts provide professional PIX Firewall support services encompassing design, integration and maintenance of Cisco firewall and Cisco security products. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls offers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack security, and safe access services. Extending from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small offices and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX firewalls offer a healthy level of protection, speed and reliability for information networks of all sizes. PIX firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system, PIX OS, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes. The Cisco PIX Firewall has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification plus Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls deliver an array of integrated security and networking services, including powerful application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and multimedia security, multi-site and remote-access IPsec VPN networking, intelligent networking services, and flexible administrative tools. Progent's Cisco consultants can show you how to choose and integrate any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls including the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506E, PIX 515 Firewalls, the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 520 Firewall, Cisco PIX 525 Firewalls and the Cisco PIX 535.
Progent's support services for software/firmware update management offer organizations of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your virtual and physical; servers, such as scanners, infrastructure appliances such as switches and Wi-Fi access points, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices such as sensors and robotics.
The clustering feature set built into the high-end editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is radically re-engineered to simplify the deployment, setup, and administration of clusters that offer improved levels of system availability, security, efficiency, and versatility. New or enhanced capabilities include automated cluster verification, easier configuration and installation, unified cluster management, new cluster infrastructure for increased availability, hardened security and quorum models, minimization of failure points, more disk and memory capacity, and improvements for multi-site clusters. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you assess the advantages of Windows clustering, plan and implement an installation, train your network support staff to manage your cluster environment, provide continuing consulting and support services, and produce and test a business continuity procedure.
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, formerly known as SyteLine, is an ERP platform that embodies over a quarter century of background helping manufacturing, distribution and service companies to simplify complex supply chains and streamline key processes to bring products to market quickly and meet customer commitments dependably. Progent can provide the skills of an ERP specialist with over 20 years of background working with the SyteLine/CloudSuite Industrial product family. Progent can provide online or onsite services that can range from as-needed guidance to end-to-end solution design and project management. Sample services offered by Progent for CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine include implementation, migration, business analysis, customization, Configure/Price/ Quote, web site integration, troubleshooting, ETL, Amazon AWS integration, training, and DBA services.
Progent can help your organization in any facet of your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2019 such as deploying Windows Server 2019 for hosting Exchange; planning high availability architecture for a local, cloud-based or hybrid deployment; migrating mailboxes; planning and implementing Hyper-V; configuring hardware load balancing (HLB); configuring DAG groups with MCDB caching; setting up Skype for Business 2019 for voicemail; integration with SharePoint; updating firewalls; integration with Microsoft 365; and configuring Outlook.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have broad experience creating corporate security solutions for information systems 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 ISA Server 2004 that meets your information security requirements without restricting your network.
Progent can help you to design an upgrade to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Online or Lync Server and configure, administer, and troubleshoot a cloud or hybrid implementation of Teams. Progent can assist you to integrate Teams with Office and Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint, and your PSTN gateway.
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Lync 2013, now called Skype for Business, enables organizations of any size to create a manageable and protected communications environment that supports a BYOD computing style with instant messaging, real-time presence, web conferencing with application sharing, as well as IP-based and PSTN telephony enabled for a wide assortment of stationary PCs and mobile clients. Progent's certified Lync Server 2013 experts and system architects can help you to assess the advantages of Lync 2013, design an in-house, cloud-based (via Microsoft Lync Online) or mixed topology suitable for your current and long-term goals, implement Lync Server 2013 so as to speed up your return on investment, and deliver live online and on-premises training to your management staff and end users. Progent offers in-depth expertise in key pieces of a Lync Server 2013 deployment including Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange, and Progent can help your organization to combine Lync Server 2013 with popular Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook and PowerPoint.
Progent's certified failover clustering experts can help companies of all sizes to evaluate the advantages of utilizing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 failover clustering technology to create an advanced fault-tolerant/disaster recovery solution, assist your organization to plan and deploy a Windows Server 2012 environment, deliver online and on-premises consulting services and engineering support for clusters that include physical servers or virtual ones, and help you to streamline the management of clustered servers.
Progent can help small and medium-size organizations to configure and debug video conferencing solutions to allow their at-home workers to interact productively with colleagues and clients.
Progent offers advanced remote consulting support to help businesses connect their networks with leading public cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Progent can help you to design and manage hybrid ecosystems that support Windows and Linux systems and applications in both cloud-based solutions or in hybrid network models that combine on-premises resources as well as public clouds. To assist you to incorporate cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a variety of public cloud migration services that include Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and deployment consulting, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud migration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service (WMS) programming and troubleshooting. Progent has over two decades of background providing advanced consulting expertise remotely, and Progent can help you complete your cloud integration projects quickly and within your budget.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer small and medium sized companies consulting services for Microsoft Forefront TMG and ISA Servers. Microsoft's Forefront TMG and Internet Security and Acceleration Servers include an advanced application-layer aware firewall that can protect your IT system from attack by outside and inside threats. Forefront Threat Management Gateway and ISA Server provide thorough examination of Internet protocols such as HTTP, which allows these security platforms to uncover many threats that can get by traditional firewalls. The combined firewall and VPN architecture of Forefront TMG and ISA Server permit stateful filtering and inspection of all VPN traffic. ISA Servers are the mainstay of Microsoft's network security strategy, and Progent's Microsoft-certified experts and CISSP, CISA and CISM certified security consultants can help you strengthen your network security through expert planning and deployment of Forefront Threat Management Gateway and Microsoft ISA Servers. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist you to configure Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010, manage and troubleshoot any version of ISA Server, or migrate smoothly from ISA Server environments to Microsoft Forefront TMG.
Exchange Server 2013 includes significant enhancements to the capabilities of its predecessor Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and delivers powerful innovations plus a revamped architecture. These improvements favorably impact vital areas including ease of administration, availability, security and compliance, operational costs, collaboration, extensibility, throughput, compatibility, and productivity. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange 2013 consulting experts can assist your organization to understand the potential advantages of migrating to Exchange Server 2013, create an efficient validation and deployment plan, and educate your IT team to maintain your Exchange Server 2013 solution. Progent also offers affordable remote consulting and support and management services for Exchange 2013.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.
Progent's Cisco-certified Catalyst 9100 Series 802.11ax AP experts can provide economical remote and on-premises support for Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 wireless access points (WAPs).
Progent can help small and mid-size companies to configure unified remote endpoint management tools for maintaining devices operated by offsite workers.
If your company is developing UNIX or Linux applications on a network that has Windows-based servers, PCs, and office applications, Progent can provide comprehensive IT outsourcing that allows you to concentrate on your field of strategic know-how while avoiding the continual hassle of managing your business network. By using smart server monitoring and by providing remote and in-person support when your business needs it, Progent offers an economical alternative for maintaining an information network that provides high reliability, security, and efficiency. Progent's Linux developer assistance offerings include comprehensive network support outsourcing, virtual server infrastructure, online and on-premises service and repair, 24x7 monitoring services, and Contact Center services.
Progent's Microsoft-certified database consultants can provide businesses of any size remote support for leading RDBMS products such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft Office Access. Services available from Progent include software installation and configuration, database design and programming, management services, replication solutions, capacity planning, performance optimization, migration, security and compliance, backup and recovery options, troubleshooting, and training.
Progent's remote connectivity and wireless synchronization experts can assist your business to design and deploy secure access solutions for remote desktop PCs, laptops, and wireless handhelds so they work tightly with your information network, allowing your business to optimize the efficiency of your off-site workers.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts offer computer help and technology consulting services for Microsoft .NET Servers and applications and for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2003. Progent's support team can show you how to design, deploy, maintain and manage the entire family of Windows .NET Servers including Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Small Business Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Lync Server, Project Server, and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.
Lync Server 2013, renamed Skype for Business, allows organizations of all sizes to build a manageable and protected communications ecosystem that supports a Bring-Your-Own-Device 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 Microsoft-certified Lync Server 2013 experts and system integrators can help you to assess the business benefits of Lync 2013, design an on-premises, cloud-based (via Lync Online) or mixed model appropriate for your present and long-term plans, deploy Lync 2013 so as to speed up your ROI, and deliver live online and onsite training to your management team and users. Progent offers in-depth expertise in critical components of a Lync 2013 deployment that include Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange, and Progent can help you to integrate Lync 2013 with key Office and Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook and PowerPoint.
Progent's consultants can provide budget-friendly remote consulting and troubleshooting for Windows Server Essentials. Progent offers comprehensive project management support so you can design and carry out a smooth move from Windows Server Essentials to Microsoft 365 and other Azure Cloud applications and services.
Les Kent has a 35-year track record of successful network integration, business management, sales, and operations. He has shown a talent for creating sophisticated IT solutions during his time as as a network architect, software developer, project manager, deployment consultant, and troubleshooter for small businesses, new ventures, and global corporations.
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