Enlarging your at-home workforce can have a significant effect on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Plano company to select the appropriate tools and follow leading practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed expertise for helping you past occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can help Plano, Texas organizations to succeed with any facet of building a high-performing telecommuting environment by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, helpdesk services, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and unified management.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for an At-Home Workforce
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office suites, providing a rich environment of productivity apps that deliver a cohesive user interface for exchanging information across multiple sites and on a wide selection of endpoint computers. Progent has provided remote consulting services for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange since their initial publication and can help your company to configure these flagship collaboration products to maximize the effectiveness of your at-home workers.
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 on top of Microsoft 365 and supports third-party cloud services to provide real-time collaboration. Designed as a substitute for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium can support chat, video meetings that include screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, as well as file and app sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Entra (previously called Azure Active Directory) for delivering its complete range of features. For details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium, visit solution design and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams.
SharePoint utilizes web sites to facilitate collaboration and information delivery by offering policy-driven access to content, workflow, and utilities for looking through enterprise-wide information silos. SharePoint enables you to build secure web portals that enables at-home workforce to see and update aggregated corporate intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). To learn about Progent's SharePoint expertise, go to SharePoint configuration and application development consulting.
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. To find out about Progent's Exchange consulting expertise, refer to deployment expertise for Microsoft Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s collaborative cloud file hosting and synchronization service, comparable to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can save files to the OneDrive service, and colleagues can access them securely through a browser. Included with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows at-home employees to co-author documents. Revisions created offline are automatically uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. To find out about Progent's support services for Microsoft OneDrive, go to Microsoft Onedrive configuration consulting.
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