Progent's Check Point firewall consultants can show you how to plan, configure, and manage firewall solutions built around Check Point Software NGFW firewalls and Check Point's subscription-based security services. Progent's consultants can also assist you maintain legacy Check Point firewalls or migrate efficiently to Check Point's modern security gateways.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Online experts offer economical online and on-premises consulting expertise, application development, and debugging services for organizations of any size who want to upgrade to SharePoint 2019 or SharePoint Online from older releases of SharePoint. Progent can assist customers design and execute a cost-effective migration to SharePoint 2019 on prem, SharePoint Online, or a hybrid environment that incorporates onsite and cloud-based resources into a seamless information management solution.
Progent's Microsoft-certified TMG 2010 and Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 consultants can assist you to plan, install, and manage an implementation of TMG 2010 or ISA Server 2006 on your information system that provides the firewall security, speed and manageability that your business requires.
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi networking experts offer online and on-premises consulting and support services to assist you to design, install, administer, tune, and repair Wi-Fi networks that utilize Cisco's Meraki APs. Progent can also help your organization to plan and deploy hybrid environments that integrate local and cloud-based services and that deliver easy access, enhanced security, unified management, and dependable performance for all your wired and wireless devices.
Progent's Cisco-Premier network experts provide professional PIX Firewall consulting services encompassing architecture, integration and maintenance of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector threat protection, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small offices and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX firewalls provide a healthy combination of protection, speed and reliability for information environments of all sizes. PIX firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system, PIX OS, minimizing potential OS-specific security vulnerabilities. The Cisco PIX Firewall has been awarded ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification plus Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls provide an array of integrated security and connectivity services, including advanced application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and digital media security, site-to-site and remote-access IPsec VPN connectivity, intelligent networking services, and flexible management tools. Progent's network experts can help you choose and integrate any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls such as 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.
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's disaster recovery consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical data.
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new installations. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can help your company to maintain your legacy PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent can also help your company to design, deploy, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall environments based around ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Progent can help your business to evaluate the many subscription options offered with Microsoft 365, formerly called Office 365, and integrate your network with Microsoft 365 so you derive maximum business value. Progent offers expertise with cross-platform environments that include Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also assist you to create and maintain hybrid solutions that seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud resources.
Microsoft Windows Server Update Services allows IT managers to deploy and monitor the latest Microsoft patches and security releases to Microsoft Windows Server 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows XP platforms. By using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, network support staff can fully and effortlessly manage the installation of patches that are released via Microsoft Update to servers and desktops in a company. Progent can assist you with technical details of the initial configuration of Microsoft Windows Server Update Services such as designing the Microsoft Windows Server Update Services deployment, configuring client's computers, establishing the Group Policy parameters, and ensuring your Microsoft SUS GPO is associated with an Active Directory container appropriate for your system environment.
Progent's Windows 11 experts can provide an array of services for Windows 11 such as Microsoft 365 solutions, mobile management, at-home workforce access, data and identity security, centralized deployment, and Help Desk Call Center services.
Dynamics GP 2015 R2 (formerly Great Plains) introduces a new architecture that improves cloud integration, supports the most popular handheld devices, allows single login with Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and strengthens security and compliance. Microsoft Dynamics 2015 R2 also simplifies management reporting, incorporates nine new Workflows, extends the Web Client, and delivers over 100 enhancements to its library of applications. Progent's team of Microsoft-certified consultants have the depth and breadth of technical skills and experience to address the critical technical and business challenges involved with deploying and managing Dynamics GP 2015 R2 and can help you to perform a smooth migration that will optimize the return on your investment in this mission-critical platform.
Progent's productive atmosphere will make you a more capable consulting professional by improving your technical knowledge and increasing the satisfaction of your clients. Progent makes good on this promise by attracting the best professional experts for you to operate with, offering a state-of-the-art system infrastructure, using proprietary application utilities to deliver the maximum quality of service, and by streamlining proven business models for attracting and keeping customers.
Progent's Duo service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other personal devices.
Progent's Windows Server 2016 disaster recovery consultants can assist you to design a disaster recovery system built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering tools including Cluster Operating System Rolling Upgrade for non-intrusive migration to Windows Server 2016, Storage Replica for crash-consistent recovery, Storage Spaces Direct for enterprise-class network-attached storage using industry-standard hardware, VM Load Balancing for enhancing the performance and resilience of Failover Clusters while reducing capital investment and management overhead, and Cloud Witness for fast, affordable creation of a failover cluster quorum witness.
If your business computer system combines Linux technology technology with Windows, Progent can show you how to incorporate your IT resources into a unified environment that allows all your OS platforms to run side by side for simple administration, seamless dataflow, high availability, enhanced throughput, and strong protection. Progent's Linux and MS Windows coexistence support services feature network infrastructure configuration and service, consulting for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), online network monitoring and administration, online network support and repair, on-site technical support, and Helpdesk support.
Progent can assist you in all facets of your migration to Microsoft Exchange 2016 including designing HA architecture for an on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid deployment; licensing requirements for Exchange and Windows Server 2012 R2 or later; migrating mailboxes; Hyper-V virtualization design; determining mass storage capacity required for your virtual machines (VMs), mailbox databases and logs; setting up HLB for fault-tolerant client access services; planning, building and validating Exchange Servers and Windows Servers and Database Availability Groups (DAGs); integration with SharePoint; updating the firewall; resolving SSL issues; providing client remediation with Office 2010 or greater or Microsoft 365; and configuring Outlook on the web.
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Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals average more than 10 years of experience providing messaging solutions for companies ranging from small businesses to large enterprises. Progent offers economical support for all versions of Microsoft Exchange Server to enhance email and virus protection, design high availability email systems, and implement off-site and wireless email connectivity. Progent's Microsoft Exchange consulting services can help you in designing and carrying out a migration from a legacy SMPT server or unsupported Microsoft Email software such as Exchange 2003 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019. In addition offers support for Windows 10 and Windows 11 clients using Outlook and can show you how to integrate Outlook Web App for popular web browsers. For e-mail virus defense, spam blocking and outbound data leak prevention, Progent offers Email Guard security services.
Progent's Citrix-certified experts can assist your organization to assess the potential strategic value of the various editions of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, help you to use Citrix administration tools in your Hyper-V environment, and demonstrate to you how to deploy Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V to enhance the performance, uptime, consistency, and recoverability of your virtual network while lowering the cost of equipment and support and streamlining management processes.
Progent's ransomware consultants can assist your business to evaluate your ransomware vulnerability, remotely monitor and protect your IT environment, help with negotiating a settlement with a threat actor, and rebuild an information system victimized by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Nephilim.
The knowledge and experience of Progent's certified Windows Server consulting team, with an average of more than 11 years of work in Microsoft technology, assures you success in identifying the version and configuration of Windows 2003 Server that aligns most closely with your business strategy. Progent can also assist you with planning, deploying, managing and troubleshooting sophisticated information technology applications based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and can streamline your migration from Windows 2000 or Windows NT.
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery software suite that uses array-based storage clustering with replication to provide rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery (DR) between datacenters that are as far as 185 miles apart from each other. Progent's roster of veteran IT experts can assist your business to plan, configure, manage, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that meets your functional requirements and IT budget. Progent can ensure you follow best practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with tasks like assigning shelf IDs, determining aggregate and plexes layout, setting up NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up NetApp Snapshot, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, implementing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and verifying your MetroCluster DR solution to verify compliance with industry standards and government requirements.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts offer network 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 help you plan, integrate, maintain and manage the entire suite of Windows .NET Servers including SQL Server, Microsoft ISA Server, Small Business Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Windows Hyper-V, Microsoft Lync Server, Microsoft Project Server, and System Center Operations Manager.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have more than 10 years of experience designing, deploying, optimizing and repairing SCOM solutions and can provide companies of any size expert online or on-premises consulting support for System Center 2012 Operations Manager. Progent can assist your company to plan a topology for SCOM 2012 servers that delivers the performance and resilience needed to watch over your datacenter efficiently, whether your datacenters are on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid solution. Progent can also assist you to import and set up SCOM 2012 management packs according to leading practices for tracking network infrastructure as well as both Microsoft and 3rd-party apps and services. In addition, Progent can provide fast remote or on-premises troubleshooting to assist you to remediate critical issues detected by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
Progent's Cisco CCIE wireless network infrastructure experts can provide remote or onsite integration and debugging services to assist your organization to design, implement, upgrade, tune, administer and troubleshoot Aironet Wi-Fi access point environments of any size or topology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can also assist you to integrate your Wi-Fi environment with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-hosted resources to build an enterprise connectivity foundation that is easy to administer and scale. Progent also can provide affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to decide the most appropriate selection, placement and configuration of Aironet Wi-Fi access points to accommodate your specific workplace design, building structure, and expected workloads.
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 incorporates major improvements in key areas including performance, uptime, compliance, and cloud integration. SQL Server 2014 is the first release of Microsoft SQL Server that incorporates in-memory technology that works transparently across all types of applications including OLTP, enterprise data warehousing, and data analytics. Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2014 consultants can deliver cost-effective online and onsite services such as planning, configuration, administration, remediation, and software development services to enable organizations of all sizes to realize maximum business value from their SQL Server 2014 investment.
Progent's Cisco-certified wireless integration experts can assist you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco wireless products including Cisco's Aironet and Meraki Wave 2 wireless access points plus Cisco's Wireless Network Controllers.
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Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and affordable way for small and mid-size organizations to obtain an objective evaluation of the health of their IT system. Powered by a selection of the leading remote monitoring and management platforms in the industry, and overseen by Progent's world-class team of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how closely the configuration of your core network assets conform to best practices. Both the Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a low, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits like a cleaner and more secure Active Directory implementation. Both versions also provide the ongoing benefits of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management (RMM) technology. These benefits can include simpler network management, improved compliance with government and industry security standards, higher utilization of network resources, faster problem resolution, more reliable backup and recovery, and higher availability.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2019 consultants can help you to evaluate the business case for migrating to SQL Server 2019 and can provide fast online or on-premises access to consulting experts in solution planning and deployment, application development, SQL Server management, and cybersecurity.
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Progent provides organizations of any size professional consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and VPN security companies such as Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security strategy and select the right products from multiple vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your spending restraints.
Progent can help your organization in any phase of your upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 such as configuring Windows Server 2019 Core for hosting Exchange; designing high availability (HA) infrastructure for a local, cloud-based or hybrid deployment; migrating mailboxes; planning and implementing Hyper-V; setting up hardware load balancing (HLB); building DAG groups with MCDB solid-state caching; setting up Skype for Business 2019 for cloud voicemail; setting up collaboration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; updating firewalls; integration with Microsoft 365 and setting up Outlook clients.
Progent imposes no minimum fee and asks no retainer for support services delivered during regular business hours. Progent's small granularity eliminates large bills for fast solutions so you won't be tempted to allow simple problems to stay unaddressed.
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data.
Progent's Microsoft-certified database application consultants offer businesses of any size online support for leading RDBMS products such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft Access. Services available from Progent include software installation and configuration, database design and programming, administration support, replication strategies, capacity planning, tuning, migration, information security, backup/restore options, problem solving, and webinar training.
Progent's Shared Call Center service makes it possible for your IT organization to share the load for Help Desk services transparently between your IT team and Progent's roster of seasoned desktop support engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's Co-managed Help Desk service is a collaborative support solution based on ConnectWise Manage, the top shared PSA tool for managing end-user service requests, ticket lifecycle, responsibility, progress tracking, and reporting.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting engineers can assist your organization to assess the value of Exchange 2010 for your business and can assist you to plan and carry out an efficient migration to Exchange 2010 from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or Microsoft Exchange 2007 that will provide quick return on investment by increasing your productivity, lowering the cost of equipment and support, streamlining management, and consolidating your key communications platforms.
Progent provides live online training for popular client applications and environments such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Excel, Word, Publisher and Visio plus Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows 10 and 8.1. Online training provides the advantages of conventional in-person instruction, such as instant interaction between students and teachers, but avoids the costs of travel and the challenge of attempting to accommodate the availability of multiple workers. Available to single students or groups of all sizes, Progent's virtual instruction allows the trainer to run the class from a remote office and the clients can be dispersed across a campus or all over the country. Live online instruction utilizes proven teaching aids such as broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and shared applications. Sessions can be short and targeted to specific topics or longer in time and wider in scope.
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can provide advanced expertise in deploying, operating and troubleshooting all versions of Microsoft Project Server and can provide a broad variety of cost-effective remote consulting services based on proven best practices to help organizations of all sizes to receive all the advantages of this powerful platform. Services offered by Progent include system planning, software configuration and upgrades, strategies for secure file and status sharing among onsite and remote or mobile users, network infrastructure optimization, and customized online training.
Progent's compensation structure is built on contribution, so similar to being an independent contractor, your income is directly tied to your generated revenue. Some of our consultants stress lifestyle issues and choose to work at a more relaxed pace, using our self-determined calendar to pursue personal pursuits such as hiking, motorcycle racing, skiing, fishing, vacations, or spending free time with family and friends. Other consultants take advantage of the opportunity to make big bucks via lots of effort and extended days. Progent fully encourages both ends of the spectrum and any point in the middle.
Progent's background providing Microsoft .NET support and SQL Server consulting, and Progent's programming experience with VBasic, XML, and additional developer tools make it possible to create custom mission-critical applications and eCommerce solutions that operate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains Software. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains reporting consultants can show you how to create reports that allow you to analyze your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked data into useful understanding of your business.
Progent's Reseller Program for IT Service Organizations lets you use Progent's consulting experts while retaining your own brand as a transparent extension of your IT consulting staff.
Progent's UNIX family consulting services provide small and mid-size businesses and developers help with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent can give your business contact with UNIX experts, support professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM and CISA certification. This broad array of expertise offers you a convenient one-stop consulting firm to help you build and manage a protected and reliable mixed-platform connectivity and communications environment that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating MS Windows with major variants of UNIX including Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms including RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Dynamics GP/Great Plains accounting includes analysis and reporting capabilities that let you track all operations, revenues and spending, and market patterns with integrated drill-down, inquiry, and reporting functions. Progent's Dynamics GP/Great Plains reporting consulting expertise can help you design reports that allow you to analyze your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked data into useful business information. Progent can improve your reporting and business analysis by providing Crystal Reports expertise, FRx support, and Microsoft Excel programming. In addition to offering reporting consulting, Progent can supply Microsoft .NET support, Microsoft SQL Server help, and application design with VBasic, XML and other tools in order to deliver specialized line-of-business application development and web commerce solutions that work transparently with Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have more than a decade of background planning, implementing, enhancing and repairing Microsoft SCOM solutions and can provide organizations of all sizes advanced online or onsite consulting services for SCOM 2012. Progent can help your company to design an architecture for Microsoft SCOM 2012 servers that provides the responsiveness and availability required to watch over your datacenter efficiently, whether your infrastructure are onsite, cloud-based, or a mixed environment. Progent's SCOM consultants can also help you to import and customize SCOM 2012 management packs based on industry best practices for tracking network fabric and both Microsoft and third-party applications and services. Also, Progent can deliver responsive remote or onsite technical support to help you to remediate critical problems uncovered by Microsoft SCOM 2012.
Progent's computer outsourcing support offerings for small businesses include planning Server 2003, .NET Server, and BackOffice systems, coordinating upgrades to XP, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, and Exchange Server 2003, Help Desk Call Center, online and in-person repair, fixing stubborn IT problems, and producing a company-wide security strategy. Progent can help you enhance network reliability and throughput with zero-downtime technologies, redundant network topology, and proactive network monitoring. Progent also provides special project help for major migrations and can help with requirements definition, product identification, bill of materials development, vendor selection, purchasing logistics, and complete documentation. Progent's computer outsourcing help also includes education for office productivity programs such as Microsoft Office.
Cisco's security and remote connectivity solutions for small to mid-size businesses represent a complete range of easy-to-administer security hardware and software to help you protect your entire information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes routers and switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and VPN access concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can assist your organization to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that fit most closely with your corporate goals.
Progent's Cisco Security/VPN professionals and CCIE and CCNP certified experts can help your small or medium sized company integrate and support Cisco's security and VPN products such as routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators. Cisco VPN products include both off-site access and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software and AIM hardware encryption cards, and hardware appliances, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or dedicated VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN products are easy to manage and provide the versatility to evolve with your changing business needs. Progent's Cisco-Premier network experts are familiar with Cisco's comprehensive family of products targeted at preventing data theft, virus and worm outbreaks, Denial of Service attacks, and other security risks to your network. Progent can help you integrate Cisco technology to get secure connectivity, intrusion protection, and comprehensive Identity services based on Cisco ACS using RADIUS security and TACACS to establish a centralized client access control framework for user certification, permissions, and accounting from a graphical Web interface.