Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a major effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting SMBs to design, configure, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Lubbock company to pick the right tools and adhere to leading practices in creating and operating a safe virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed expertise for getting you past occasional IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.
Progent can assist Lubbock, Texas businesses to succeed with any aspect of building a high-performing work-from-home ecosystem by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, data security, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.
Infrastructure for Telecommuters
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure required for an at-home work environment can be especially challenging if you must manage a mix of personal hardware like desktop computers and notebooks, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's background providing online help for both outdated as well as modern IT products in virtual office solutions enables you to make efficient use of your available infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for making necessary upgrades. Services available from Progent to assist your company to implement a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:
IP Voice Integration for an At-Home Workforce
Expanding the company phone system to accommodate teleworkers is critical to supporting an effective work-at-home solution. A broad range of cloud-based IP voice products are used by SMBs to support remote users. Many larger organizations rely on Cisco's modern or older platforms for IP voice management. Progent can assist businesses of any size to plan or tune a telecommuter IP voice environment that delivers the flexibility, convenience and protection needed for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants can provide advanced support to assist businesses tune their current Cisco IP voice systems to support a growing remote workforce.
Video Conferencing for Teleworkers
A wide range of video conferencing products from leading vendors support online discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat, and screen/content sharing for both onsite users and at-home workers. Many organizations utilize a mix of conferencing products to meet the needs of their various partners and clients. Progent's communications experts can help your organization to manage your existing voice/video conferencing ecosystem and enhance the experience of your remote workforce.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are closely integrated with Microsoft's popular Office and Microsoft 365 suites, providing a powerful ecosystem of productivity apps that create a cohesive user experience for sharing information throughout a corporate network and on a wide range of endpoint devices. Progent has provided online consulting support for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server since their original publication and can assist your company to deploy these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize the effectiveness of your remote workforce.
SharePoint uses web sites to allow collaboration and information sharing by providing policy-driven delivery of content, business processes, and tools for looking through enterprise-wide information silos. SharePoint permits you to build protected portals that permits remote workers to view and update aggregated corporate intelligence via Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social web sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). For details about Progent's SharePoint consulting services, see SharePoint integration 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 find out about Progent's Exchange consulting expertise, visit integration consulting services for Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s shared cloud storage service, comparable to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can store files to the OneDrive service, and colleagues can share them safely through a browser. Provided with Office 365, OneDrive allows home employees to jointly author documents. Revisions created offline are automatically uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. To learn about Progent's support services for Microsoft OneDrive, refer to Microsoft Onedrive integration consulting.
Cloud Integration for At-Home Workers
Progent can provide affordable online assistance for enabling businesses to create, manage and troubleshoot integrated network architectures that combine internal data centers, teleworkers, branches, and public cloud resources. Progent can provide top-tier consultant for all modes of public cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service. Progent can help at-home workers resolve issues with cloud connectivity, identity, and cybersecurity.
Microsoft Azure is a leading family of public cloud software and services that allows you to use infrastructure, servers, and key apps running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure offers over one hundred cloud-based services including the ability to host Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines, scalable cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Progent can assist your organization to deploy VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate storage on Azure Storage services, unify identity management with Azure AD, and plan backup and recovery systems with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you establish protected access to Azure services for at-home workers by setting up and debugging firewalls and VPN tunnels. To learn about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Azure, refer to Microsoft Azure consulting.
Office 365, rebranded Microsoft 365, is Microsoft's growing family of client productivity applications and cloud-based services offered by subscription. Office apps and cloud services are marketed in a selection of bundles designed for users ranging from students and small offices to major corporations. Progent can provide fast and easy online contact with consultants knowledgeable about Office 365-compatible client devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent's experts can help you to assess the various subscription plans offered with Office 365 and deploy 365 apps for your at-home workers to achieve top business value. For details about Progent's expertise for Microsoft Office 365, see Microsoft Office 365 integration expertise.
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online is among the most widely used cloud-based applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product line. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online offers the advantages of reduced costs for physical infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high reliability, and other advantages associated with public clouds. Microsoft has engineered Office 365 Exchange Online to operate smoothly with on-premises deployments of Exchange, enabling you to create hybrid networks. Progent's Exchange experts are available for occasional assistance to get you past tough technical roadblocks and can also provide end-to-end project management outsourcing to make sure your teleworkers have easy and safe access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online environment. For details Progent's expertise for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, go to Office 365 Exchange Online configuration and troubleshooting expertise.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a trailblazer in the public cloud computing arena and is the world's leading source of cloud-based services. Progent offers fast and affordable online access to cloud integration consultants who can assist your business to design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot hybrid IT networks that integrate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with local resources and with other public clouds like Microsoft Azure. Progent also can provide access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to assist your company to build a high-availability network model so your users have a consistent computing experience regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a remote branch, from home, or on the move. For details about Progent's expertise for Amazon AWS, see Amazon AWS consulting support.
Google Cloud (GCP) is a leading suite of public cloud services that offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can help your business to extend your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's DBA experts can show you how to make your key applications cloud friendly so your telecommuters can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent can help your organization to deploy virtual machines on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage system with GCP Storage, and streamline identity control for telecommuters with Google Cloud Identity. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to utilize GCP's management technology to administer and monitor your GCP ecosystem. To find out, go to Google Cloud Platform integration support.
Help Desk Support for Teleworkers
An emergency, enterprise-wide transition to a from-home business model, which might be activated by a pandemic or as part of a disaster recovery preparedness plan, can overwhelm even the most efficient in-house Help Desk. Progent's Call Center services allow businesses to outsource or expand their Call Desk by using Progent's online Technical Response Center (TRC) team.
Security for At-Home Workers
At-home workers often use their personal computing devices and work in an unsecured environment. This worsens their vulnerability to cyber attacks and demands careful use of firewalls, remote endpoint monitoring, and the creation of security policies that follow best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of certified cybersecurity professionals can assist your business to design, implement and administer a compliant security environment that protects sensitive data in IT networks that include remote workers.
Data Protection Solutions for Teleworkers
Data Protection involves backing up and recovering critical information so as to avoid data loss and reduce restoration time and effort in case of storage problems due to hardware issues, software glitches, human error, cyber attack, or other causes. Reliable data protection solutions can be particularly challenging to architect and maintain in hybrid environments that combine private data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for Remote Workers
Microsoft has renamed and rebundled its endpoint management platforms under the title Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud-based management of remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing local computers. Endpoint Manager features a unified platform for safeguarding critical data by managing local, mobile, and at-home endpoints.
Microsoft Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also includes Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and securing mobile computers and software. Remote endpoint devices can be personally owned or business owned. IT administrators managing the endpoint computers of telecommuters can use Intune to deploy and validate apps on managed devices, push patches and certificates, set up policies for accessing information and networks, manage passwords, create VPN connections, control how telecommuters share information, set up threat defense, verify compliance, and wipe corporate information from missing, stolen or deactivated devices. Microsoft Intune runs with Apple iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS devices. For information about Intune and how Progent can assist you to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the endpoint devices of your at-home workforce, visit Intune telecommuter endpoint management expertise.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced unified Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoint devices up to date and protected. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint management combined with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery technology for access control, application management, and setup management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints based on Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or leading distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-premises deployment via a one-time purchase. Top capabilities of Workspace ONE include rapid remote provisioning of out-of-the-box notebooks, immediate onboarding of new users, policy set up and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies reporting and analytics, email encryption, and seamless integration with Microsoft apps and cloud services. For details about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, refer to VMware Workspace ONE remote endpoint management expertise.
Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
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