Microsoft's SQL technology has evolved to become a pivotal element of most small and medium-size company IT networks. This premier relational database solution is the intelligence behind a multitude of vital business applications, both off-the-shelf and specialized, that address areas including eCommerce, management reporting, asset management, data-driven web development, customer relationship management, and financials. Familiar interfaces and compatibility with popular programming languages allow fast and affordable production and thorough testing of custom programs that amplify your return on investments in technology. Microsoft has continually improved the architecture of SQL Server so the platform can provide the highest levels of security, responsiveness, availability, scalability, and ease of management. Progent's Microsoft Premier engineers offer years of hands-on experience in planning, installing, and managing SQL Server-powered environments.

Progent's Microsoft SQL consultants can provide remote and on-premises support services to help your St. Paul, Minnesota business to assess the costs and benefits of moving from outdated DBM technology or earlier versions of MS SQL Server to the most recent edition. Progent can help your organization to design a migration strategy that avoids disruption of business, run pilot environments to verify capability and performance, port your databases and programs to the new version of Microsoft SQL Server, and provide continuing technical support to ensure your MS SQL-powered solution stays operating productively. Progent's Power BI integration experts can help you utilize information from SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server SSAS to build visualizations to incorporate into interactive Power BI analytical reports and dashboards.

Progent's Cisco-Premier CCIE network engineers can help your company to build an affordable connectivity infrastructure that offers world-class levels of robustness for hosting your SQL solution. Progent's CISA and GIAC qualified information security consultants can asses the quality of your existing security policies and technologies and suggest and carry out affordable enhancements to your company-wide security. Progent can also provide automated network tracking to make sure your corporate information system is always available, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is ready to provide rapid remediation for SQL problems.

Progent can assist your company you to design, implement and administer SQL Server ecosystems that incorporate physical and cloud hosted infrastructure. (Learn about Progent's Azure hybrid cloud solutions.)

Minneapolis-St Paul Metro Area Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Twin Cities Metro Area.

Onsite IT Consulting
Progent locations in Minneapolis-St Paul Metro Area

City Address Phone Link
Minneapolis 40 S 7th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 444-2140 Minneapolis Network Support Services
St. Paul 2136 Ford Parkway
St. Paul, MN 55116
(612) 808-8084 St. Paul Network Support Services


SQL 2019 Migration Consulting Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2019 consultants can help you to evaluate the advantages for upgrading to SQL Server 2019 and can provide rapid remote or on-premises access to consulting experts in solution design and integration, application programming, database administration, and cybersecurity. To learn more, refer to SQL Server 2019 integration consulting.

Microsoft SQL 2017 Server Consulting
Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2017 consultants can help you to evaluate the business advantages of migrating to SQL Server 2017 and can help your organization to design and carry out an efficient migration of your databases and applications to any network model including on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid. Progent's consultants offer online or onsite support ranging from on-demand design assessment or troubleshooting to end-to-end project management and co-management to make sure your SQL Server 2017 project is carried out on schedule and within budget. Learn about Progent's SQL Server 2017 consulting.

Microsoft SQL 2016 Consulting Services
SQL Server 2016 offers major enhancements in performance, capacity, security, uptime, BOYD integration, plus built-in BI. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can deliver online and onsite support to assist businesses of any size to deploy, manage or debug any version of SQL Server 2016. Progent can also help you to interface SQL Server 2016 with other core Microsoft products such as Windows Server, Exchange Server 2016, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP, Skype for Business, and SCOM. Read about Progent's SQL Server 2016 consulting.

SQL 2014 Consulting Services
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 includes significant improvements in key areas such as speed, availability, security, and cloud integration. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the first release of SQL Server that incorporates in-memory technology that operates transparently with all workloads including Online Transaction Processing, data warehousing (DWH), and business analytics (BI). Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2014 consultants can deliver efficient remote and onsite services such as planning, configuration, administration, remediation, and software development expertise to help organizations of any size to realize fast return from their SQL Server 2014 investment. Read about Progent's SQL Server 2014 consulting services.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Support Services
SQL Server 2012 introduces a broad range of features that deliver significant enhancements in key technologies such as high-availability, security, throughput, manageability, business information (BI), cloud support, expandability, information sharing, data discovery, and streamlined application development. Progent offers the expertise of certified engineers and experienced software developers, DBAs, project managers, network infrastructure engineers, disaster recovery/business continuity specialists, and certified security professionals to assist you to assess the potential advantages of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up test systems at your datacenter or at Progent's lab, plan and carry out a smooth transition to SQL Server 2012 from previous versions of SQL Server or from legacy database solutions, and configure an efficient and secure network infrastructure that helps you maximize the business benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Learn about Progent's SQL 2012 consulting services.

SQL 2008 Server Support Services
MS SQL Server 2008 delivers significant improvements over previous versions of Microsoft's premier database platform. Innovations offered by SQL 2008 Server impact key facets of information control and analysis including security, fault tolerance, extensibility, ease of administration, and powerful functions for converting masses of data into meaningful management insight. Improvements in SQL 2008 include application-independent encryption for guarding privacy and attaining compliance, Policy-Based Framework to control management expenses, new synchronization services to support occasionally connected users, closer interaction with Office Word and Excel and SharePoint 2007 for working with SQL reports, and resource definition to provide predictable performance to your users. (Note: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has reached End-of-Support. Progent can provide SQL Server migration consulting to assist your business to move efficiently to a current release of SQL Server.) Find out about Progent's Microsoft SQL Server 2008 support.

SQL 2005 Consulting
MS SQL Server 2005 enhances your IT network by providing a safe and robust company information control and evaluation platform. MS SQL Server 2005 improves the strategic value of your IT network by offering a proven data management platform for 24x7 operations of enterprise-class, high-volume databases, enabling you to make better decisions derived from real-time business metrics through advanced analytics, reporting tools, and data-mining functions, and giving you an improved development environment that enables programmers to build secure mission-critical applications quickly, and easily create extra capabilities for users. Find out about Progent's Microsoft SQL 2005 support.

SQL Server 2K Support
SQL 2000 Server represents a full-featured, Web-enabled relational database and information analysis product that facilitates the rapid development of a new generation of enterprise-class line-of-business applications that can provide your organization a critical business advantage. SQL 2000 Server offers core support for XML and the capability to query over the Internet and beyond the corporate firewall. Progent's Microsoft-expert SQL Server consultants can help you to upgrade your applications and data from SQL Server 2000 to the most recent version of SQL Server technology. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Microsoft SQL 2000 Server support services.

Progent's Software Programming Support for Microsoft SQL Server
Progent's Microsoft SQL Server application programmers and DBAs can provide online expertise to assist organizations of all sizes to create, manage, and troubleshoot applications based on Microsoft SQL Server. Progent's SQL Server consultants can provide support for any facet of application development in solutions that can include small office databases to VLDB applications. Support services offered by Progent's SQL Server software developers and DBAs include:

  • Requirements analysis
  • RDBMS conceptual and logical modeling
  • Normalization
  • Advanced T-SQL programming
  • Program configuration
  • Data migration
  • Storage management
  • Performance tuning
  • Backup and Restore processes
  • Partitioning strategies
  • Reusable schema
  • Replication solutions
  • Security
  • Business continuity planning

To contact Progent about consulting support for SQL Server integration, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

Progent's Professional Support Services for Microsoft Platforms
For businesses of all sizes in St. Paul Minnesota, Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer affordable online network help and professional consulting support for the entire family of Microsoft .NET servers. Progent can provide Microsoft Windows Server 2022 solution design and integration expertise, Windows Server 2019 upgrade expertise, Windows Server 2016 hybrid cloud solutions, Windows Server 2012 R2 design and deployment assistance, Windows 2008 Server consulting, and Windows Server 2003 technical support. Progent's planning, installation, optimization, and consulting capabilities include network design, configuration, and management outsourcing for project analysis and documentation, on-site and off-site technical support and network repair, Help Desk Support, comprehensive security expertise, full-service outsourcing, and ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

Progent's System Center 2016 consulting experts include System Center 2016 Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) experts, System Center 2016 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2016) consultants and Microsoft System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2016) hybrid cloud management consultants who can help your organization to plan and deploy Microsoft's solution for centralized management of hybrid cloud environments that combine physical datacenters and cloud infrastructure and services.

Progent in addition offers a wide range of remote desktop support services including Windows 11 planning and upgrade assistance, Windows 10 integration support, Microsoft Windows 8.1 migration, integrating Microsoft 365, and automating Business Desktop Deployment.

If your St. Paul Minnesota company needs immediate remote support from a Microsoft certified consultant, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help.


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