Enlarging your at-home workforce can have a major effect on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to plan, configure, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can help your Chicago organization to pick the right technologies and adhere to leading practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns top value. Progent offers services ranging from on demand expertise for getting you over occasional IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can assist Chicago, Illinois organizations to succeed with any facet of building a high-performing work-at-home ecosystem by providing infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Software for an At-Home Workforce
Microsoft's collaboration products are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office and Microsoft 365 families, providing a powerful ecosystem of productivity apps that deliver a consistent user experience for exchanging information across a corporate network and on a wide range of endpoint computers. Progent has provided online consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange Server since their initial releases and can assist your company to configure these critical collaboration platforms to maximize the productivity of your remote workforce.
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office suite, providing a rich ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide variety of endpoint devices. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial releases and can help at-home workers set up and use these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize productivity.
Microsoft Teams works with Microsoft 365 and integrates with third-party cloud services to deliver real-time collaboration. Developed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can enable chat, video meetings with screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and application sharing. Teams is closely integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Entra (formerly branded Azure Active Directory) for supporting its full range of features. To learn more about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams, visit planning and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
SharePoint uses web sites to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing by providing policy-based delivery of data, workflow, and tools for searching through enterprise-wide business data. SharePoint allows you to create secure web portals that permits at-home workforce to view and update consolidated business intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social networking sites, and Web Parts. To learn about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, see SharePoint configuration and application development expertise.
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 expertise, visit integration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s collaborative cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can save files to OneDrive, and colleagues anywhere can retrieve them safely through a web browser. Provided with Office 365, OneDrive enables home workers to co-author documents. Revisions made offline are synced when you go back online. For information about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft OneDrive, refer to Onedrive configuration consulting.
Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
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