Value Pricing for IT Outsourcing
Progent bills at a competitive per-minute rate for technical support. Customers are not forced to pay for retainers or monthly commitments that may result in paying for support that is never delivered. Progent offers an extended hours online support program and does not bill for driving time except for emergency support in which on-site time is under four hours.
Key features and benefits of Progent's value pricing include:
- Competitive By-the-Minute Rates
Progent charges affordable by-the-minute rates for access to seasoned support experts. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco Premier engineers are quick, effective, and experienced. By charging a reasonable by-the-minute rate and resolving problems fast, Progent gives small and mid-size businesses the best ROI available in the country for IT support.
- Simple Engagement Model with No Retainers or Surcharges for Standard Services
Progent's simple per-minute engagement model requires no complicated contracts, retainers, or hidden charges for support services provided during regular working hours. Many service organizations have minimum commitments or other added fees that drive up support bills. For remote help, you pay just for the actual time Progent uses dealing with your technical issues. If it only takes ten minutes to resolve your difficulty, then you only pay for those minutes. For regularly scheduled on-location service work reserved more than 24 hours ahead, you owe just for the period when Progent's expert is there on site solving your technical issues. No on-site charges, driving fees, or expenses. Simply our low per-minute rate. For emergency immediate on-premises service calls, you may be required to pay for the Progent consultant's driving time, but never a higher emergency rate. Because Progent offers an extensive team of expert consultants situated throughout the service territory and in key cities throughout the U.S, a capable expert is usually nearby to assist you.
- Low Overhead Through Leveraged Technology
Progent provides support as efficiently as possible in order to come up with timely, affordable solutions. By exploiting the latest technology, Progent trims the costs from support delivery and reduces operational overhead. Progent's online help and automated monitoring drive service bills down significantly by resolving anomalies quickly and preventing catastrophic breakdowns. Progent's sophisticated virtual office environment enables Progent's consultants to focus on fixing information technology problems and waste less time on travel.
Progent's unique internal support database allows Progent's consultants to analyze and resolve problems quickly and to collaborate with colleagues to find best-of-breed solutions.
- Remote Support
Progent is a leader in providing protected remote help to business networks worldwide. When practiced correctly, online support provides significant productivity improvements and cost reductions by dealing with issues in a small percentage of the time that would be needed for an on-site support call. Progent's online service experts know how to solve problems quickly, and Progent's by-the-minute billing scheme for online support protects customers from having to pay for support that is never delivered.
- Proactive Monitoring
ProSight WAN Watch is a cloud-based network infrastructure management service that provides an affordable solution for small and mid-size organizations to monitor and manage network devices such as routers and switches, firewalls, and Wi-FI access points plus servers, desktops, smartphones and other networked devices. Progent's ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring service can monitor the health of your critical servers and desktops, alert you to imminent problems, track warranties and software patches, and generate built-in and custom performance reports. Progent's 24x7 remote network monitoring and reporting services based on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager can help you detect and resolve potential network problems before they can cause network downtime. Progent offers expertise with System Center 2016 Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) hybrid cloud infrastructure monitoring and analytics as well as Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager monitoring and reporting.
For detailed information about Progent's IT service packages, check out Progent's
IT Service Outsourcing and Network Monitoring Fact Sheets, downloadable in Acrobat format for easy printing.
For an example of how Microsoft Operations Manager helped a business achieve enterprise-class network management, read the Microsoft Operations Manager Case Study.
If you currently need technical help with your small business network, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.