Progent's Co-managed Service Desk
Progent's Co-managed Service Desk is intended for businesses with between 50 and 500 end users and allows your IT staff to divide responsibilities for Service Desk support seamlessly between your internal network support staff and Progent's nationwide roster of IT support engineers and subject matter experts (SMEs). Progent's Shared Service Desk is a collaborative IT service solution built around ConnectWise Manage, the leading Professional Services Automation tool for administering IT support requests, generating trouble tickets, assigning responsibility, monitoring progress, and generating management analytics. The price for Level 1 IT support for Progent's Co-managed Help Desk service averages under $18 per user per month.
Progent's Shared Service Desk provides a seamless supplement to your corporate support group. User access to the Service Desk, delivery of technical assistance, problem escalation, trouble ticket creation and updates, efficiency metrics, and management of the service database are consistent whether issues are taken care of by your core IT support resources, by Progent, or by a combination. All end-user service requests are ranked as Level 1, 2 or 3 incidents. Progent takes responsibility for whatever support level or levels you specify (usually Level 1 and Level 3). Original service calls are assigned either to your internal support resources or to Progent's Technical Response Center, based on your instructions. Level 2 or 3 tickets can be escalated to Progent's Experts Team of subject matter experts (SMEs). The escalation procedure is seamless for your users. You have unrestricted versatility to extend or shrink your share of technical support work as circumstances demand. Progent provides startup installation and onboarding of the professional services automation software as well as workflow documentation, validation and training.

Progent's Technical Response Center
Progent's Technical Response Center has been providing online IT help for more than twenty years and has active customers in every state in the U.S. (see Progent's customer testimonials.) The Technical Response Center maintains the team of seasoned computer technicians who can resolve Level 1 tickets, which represent the majority of Service Desk support calls. The Technical Response Center, like Progent's Experts Team, uses the ConnectWise Manage professional services automation platform to streamline ticketing, tracking progress, responsibility assignment, escalation and management reporting. This proven solution keeps issues from being overlooked and gives clients clear visibility of all services delivered. The Technical Response Center targets 90% live answer rate and enables Progent's Shared Help Desk Services to offer a 60-minute service-level agreement (SLA). Service times are 5am to 7pm Pacific Time on normal work days. Extended hours and on-premises help are available at extra cost. For more details about the Technical Response Center, see The TRC Customer Commitment.
Definition of Service Levels
Progent provides three distinct levels of remote technical service, which correspond to industry-recognized Tier 1 to Tier 3 support. You can pick which service levels will be handled wholly or shared by Progent's support team and your internal resources. The depth and scope of Progent's team of SMEs allows fast and effective ticket escalation and makes it possible to count on Progent as a single source for most IT issues at any Tier. Also, Progent's practice of knowledge transfer permits important service issues to migrate from higher to lower Tiers as solution workflows become recorded and standardized so they can be handled by less knowledgeable and less expensive support staff.
Service levels are defined as:

This particular deployment of Progent's Co-managed Help Desk Service has a four-phase trouble ticket lifecycle:
Highlights of Progent's Service Desk
Top features of Progent's Co-managed Service Desk program include:
First Steps
Check Out Progent's White Paper: Is Co-managed IT a Good Idea?
Though maintaining your own self-sufficient in-house IT services team can prove expensive from the budgetary standpoint, many organizations prefer that approach since it allows more flexibility with their network management. But did you know that you can continue to reap the benefits of a managed services firm within the shared network support model. This shared model permits your company to keep in control over your IT infrastructure while supplementing your own IT services team easily and affordably.
For details, check out our white paper: Is co-managed IT a good idea? (PDF - 632 KB).
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Progent's ProSight Line of Managed Services
Progent has packaged the ProSight suite of remote monitoring and management (RMM) services to streamline vital activities related to network administration, security and maintenance. These RMM services can be integrated with Progent's Shared Help Desk service by installing agent software on machines to be tracked and managed. Notifications generated by these agents can be forwarded automatically to Progent's Technical Response Center, processed via the trouble ticket and monitoring system, and triaged for Level 1, 2 or 3 treatment.
Examples of ProSight RMM packages include:
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's network, server, and endpoint remote monitoring service that incorporates state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management technology to keep your IT system running efficiently by checking the health of critical assets that drive your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alarm is transmitted immediately to your specified IT staff and your Progent consultant so that any looming issues can be resolved before they have a chance to disrupt your network. ProSight LAN Watch is National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) compliant. Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch network, server, and endpoint remote monitoring consulting.
ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM software delivers a unified, cloud-based solution for monitoring and managing your client-server infrastructure by offering tools for streamlining common time-consuming jobs. These include health checking, update management, automated repairs, endpoint deployment, backup and recovery, anti-virus protection, secure remote access, standard and custom scripts, asset inventory, endpoint status reporting, and debugging help. When ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM uncovers a serious issue, it sends an alarm to your designated IT staff and your Progent consultant so that emerging issues can be fixed before they interfere with productivity. Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM server and desktop monitoring services.
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it easy and affordable for small and mid-sized organizations to map, monitor, reconfigure and troubleshoot their connectivity hardware like routers and switches, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, printers, client computers and other networked devices. Incorporating cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, ProSight WAN Watch makes sure that network maps are always current, captures and displays the configuration information of almost all devices on your network, monitors performance, and sends alerts when problems are discovered. By automating tedious management and troubleshooting activities, ProSight WAN Watch can knock hours off common tasks such as network mapping, reconfiguring your network, finding appliances that need important updates, or isolating performance issues. Find out more about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management services.
ProSight Reporting is an expanding suite of real-time management reporting tools created to integrate with the top ticketing and network monitoring programs such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting incorporates Microsoft Graph and features color coding to highlight and contextualize critical issues like spotty support follow-through or machines with out-of-date AVs. By exposing ticketing or network health problems clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances productivity, lowers management hassle, and saves money. For more information, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring applications.
Progent has worked with advanced backup technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS products automate and track your data backup operations and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of important files/folders, applications, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, 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 decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used for this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services.
Progent's Shared Service Desk provides a seamless supplement to your corporate network support team. Client interaction with the Help Desk, delivery of technical assistance, issue escalation, ticket creation and tracking, efficiency metrics, and management of the service database are consistent regardless of whether issues are taken care of by your core support staff, by Progent, or by a combination. Your business has unrestricted versatility to extend or shrink your share of support work as needed. Progent takes care of initial deployment and onboarding of the professional services automation software plus documentation, validation and training. For more information about ProSight Shared Help Desk, refer to ProSight Shared Call Desk.
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology from SentinelOne to guard physical and virtual endpoints against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery with SentinelOne technology.
Progent's support services for patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.
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