Expanding your at-home workforce may have a major impact on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate workflows. Progent has two decades of experience assisting SMBs to design, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that support a remote workforce. Progent can help your St. Paul company to select the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that promotes collaboration and returns top business value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed expertise for getting you over challenging technical bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can help St. Paul, Minnesota companies to with any aspect of creating a high-functioning remote work environment by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, data security, data protection solutions, and unified management.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office and Microsoft 365 families, providing a rich environment of applications that create a cohesive user experience for sharing data and ideas across a corporate network and on a wide range of endpoints. Progent has provided remote consulting support for SharePoint and Exchange Server since their first publication and can assist your company to configure these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize the effectiveness of your at-home 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 supports third-party cloud services to provide real-time collaboration and communication. Developed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can enable chat, video meetings that include screen sharing, calling, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and app sharing. Teams is closely integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (previously branded Azure Active Directory) for supporting its full range of features. For additional information about Progent's support services for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium, see planning and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
SharePoint uses web sites to facilitate collaboration and information sharing by offering policy-based delivery of content, business processes, and utilities for searching through enterprise-wide business data. SharePoint permits you to create protected web portals that enables at-home workforce to view and update consolidated corporate intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts. For information about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, refer to SharePoint integration 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 support services, refer to integration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can save files to OneDrive, and colleagues can retrieve them safely through a browser. Included with Microsoft 365, OneDrive enables home workers to jointly author files. Revisions created offline are uploaded when you go back online. To find out about Progent's expertise for OneDrive, visit Microsoft Onedrive configuration experts.
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