Enlarging your remote workforce can have a significant impact on IT infrastructure, security, and company workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Tampa organization to pick the right tools and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed expertise for helping you past occasional IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.
Progent can help Tampa, Florida businesses to with any aspect of creating a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.
Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure required for a remote work environment can be especially complicated if you have to manage a combination of personal equipment such as PCs and notebooks, routers, and wireless APs from various vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's background providing online support for both outdated and modern technologies in virtual office venues allows you to make efficient use of your existing infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for implement essential updates. Services available from Progent to assist you to implement a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem include:
VoIP Solutions for Telecommuters
Expanding the business phone environment to include remote users is vital to maintaining a productive at-home workforce. A variety of cloud-based digital PBX products are used by small and mid-size businesses to support teleworkers. Many larger organizations rely on Cisco's modern or older products for VoIP management. Progent can assist businesses of any size to design or maintain a telecommuter VoIP environment that provides the flexibility, convenience and protection required for at-home workers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants offer high-level support to help organizations tune their current Cisco IP voice environments to support a growing remote workforce.
Voice/Video Conferencing for Telecommuters
A wide selection of voice/video conferencing platforms from major vendors enable virtual discussions, video conferencing, chat, and content sharing for both local users and at-home workers. Many organizations use a mix of products to accommodate their various partners and customers. Progent's communications experts can help you to manage your current conferencing environment and enhance the experience of your at-home workforce.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are closely integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office and Microsoft 365 suites, providing a powerful ecosystem of productivity apps that create a cohesive user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a broad selection of endpoints. Progent has provided online consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their original releases and can help your company to deploy these flagship collaboration products to maximize the effectiveness of your remote workers.
SharePoint uses web sites to promote collaboration and information sharing by offering policy-based access to data, workflow, and tools for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint allows you to create protected web portals that permits remote workers to view and update aggregated corporate intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social web sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). For information about Progent's SharePoint consulting services, go to SharePoint configuration and application development consulting.
Exchange and Exchange Online offer secure collaboration features including public folders, shared mailboxes, and shared calendars and contacts. Progent's Microsoft certified Exchange experts can show you how to activate and utilize these features for your at-home workers. For information about Progent's Exchange consulting services, go to integration expertise for Microsoft Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s shared cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service, comparable to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can store files to the OneDrive service, and colleagues anywhere can access them safely via a web browser. Included with Office 365, OneDrive allows remote workers to jointly author documents. Revisions made offline are synced when you go back online. To learn about Progent's consulting expertise for OneDrive, see Microsoft Onedrive configuration experts.
Cloud Integration Services for At-Home Workers
Progent offers advanced online support for helping businesses to create, manage and troubleshoot integrated network architectures that incorporate physical data centers, at-home workers, branches, plus cloud services. Progent offers top-tier consultant for all modes of cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help remote workers resolve issues with cloud connectivity, authentication, and cybersecurity.
Microsoft Azure is a popular platform for public cloud software and services that enables you to utilize infrastructure, servers, and critical apps hosted on Microsoft's massive cloud. Microsoft Azure includes more than 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 data protection. Progent can assist you to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, configure storage on Azure Storage services, unify identity control with Azure Active Directory, and plan data backup and restore systems with Azure Backup. Progent can also show you how to create protected connections to Azure services for remote workers by configuring and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN tunnels. To learn about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Azure, see Azure consulting services.
Office 365, rebranded Microsoft 365, is Microsoft's popular suite of business productivity applications and cloud services available by subscription. Office apps and cloud services are provided in a variety of plans intended for customers ranging from individuals and households to major enterprises. Progent can provide fast and easy online access to experts familiar with Office 365-compatible endpoints running Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent's experts can help you to evaluate the numerous subscription bundles offered with Office 365 and configure 365 apps for your teleworkers to achieve maximum business value. To find out about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Office 365, visit Microsoft 365 consulting expertise.
Office 365 Exchange Online is among the most popular applications in the Office 365 product product suite. Exchange Online offers the benefits of reduced costs for physical infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high availability, and additional benefits associated with cloud computing. Microsoft has engineered Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to operate transparently with on-premises deployments of Exchange, enabling customers to create hybrid cloud/onsite networks. Progent's certified Exchange experts are available for as-needed help to get you through challenging technical roadblocks and also offer end-to-end project management outsourcing to ensure your at-home workers have convenient and safe access to your Office 365 Exchange Online deployment. To learn Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, go to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration and troubleshooting consulting.
Amazon AWS is a pioneer in the public cloud computing market and is the world's top provider of cloud services. Progent offers quick and affordable online access to cloud connectivity experts who can help your business to design, deploy, manage, and debug hybrid information networks that integrate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with local resources and with other public clouds like Microsoft Azure. Progent also offers the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to assist you to create a high-availability network architecture to make sure your users have a productive computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your headquarters, a remote branch, from home, or on the move. For details about Progent's support services for Amazon AWS, see Amazon AWS integration services.
Google Cloud is a leading suite of public cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can assist your organization to extend your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud, and Progent's DBA consultants can show you how to make your mission-critical apps cloud ready so your at-home workers can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent's consultants can help you to set up VMs on GCP Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage system with GCP Storage, and simplify identity control for at-home workers with GCP Cloud Identity. Progent's experts can also help your organization to utilize GCP's unified management tools to control and monitor your GCP ecosystem. For details, go to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consulting support.
Help Desk Support for At-Home Workers
A fast, organization-wide switchover to a telecommuter business model, which might be the result of an epidemic or as an element of a disaster recovery process, can overstretch even a high-performing in-house Support Desk. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services allow businesses to outsource or augment their Help Desk Call Center by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center services.
Cybersecurity for At-Home Workers
At-home workers commonly run their own computing devices and work in an unsecured space. This worsens their vulnerability to cyber threats and demands careful deployment of security appliances, remote monitoring, and the enforcement of security policies that adhere to best practices. Progent's veteran roster of certified data security experts can assist your organization to plan, deploy and administer a modern security environment that safeguards vital information in IT networks that include at-home workers.
Data Protection Solutions for Remote Workers
The field of Data Protection involves saving and restoring critical data so as to avoid data loss and minimize recovery time and effort in the event of storage system problems resulting from equipment breakdowns, software glitches, human error, malware, or other causes. Dependable data protection strategies can be particularly difficult to architect and manage in hybrid networks that incorporate local data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for At-Home Workers
Microsoft has rebranded and reshuffled its endpoint management platforms under the name Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises endpoints. Microsoft Endpoint Manager offers a centralized solution for protecting critical data by controlling on-premises, mobile, and home-based endpoints.
Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also features Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and protecting remote devices and applications. Remote endpoint devices can be user owned or business owned. Network admins managing the endpoint computers of teleworkers can use Intune to provision and authenticate apps on devices, push updates and certificates, set up rules for accessing data and resources, manage passwords, establish VPN tunnels, control how telecommuters share information, set up threat defense, verify compliance, and wipe sensitive information from missing, stolen or decommissioned devices. Intune can be used with iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X devices. For information about Intune and to find out how Progent can assist your company to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the endpoint devices of your at-home workers, go to Intune telecommuter device management expertise.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized Mobile Device Management (MDM) product that helps network administrators to keep offsite endpoint devices current and secure. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint administration plus VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery technology for authorization control, application management, and configuration management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE operates with endpoints based on Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-site product via a perpetual license. Key capabilities of VMware Workspace ONE include fast remote deployment of out-of-the-box laptops, immediate onboarding of new users, policy setting and enforcement for all categories of endpoints, aggregated reporting and analytics, email encryption, and seamless integration with Microsoft apps and cloud-based services. For details about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, visit VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management consultants.
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