Enlarging your telecommuter workforce may have a major effect on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and debug IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Springfield company to pick the appropriate tools and follow best practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual solution for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and delivers top business value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed guidance for helping you over challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can assist Springfield, Illinois businesses to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning work-from-home environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, helpdesk augmentation, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Telecommuters
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office suites, offering a rich environment of productivity apps that create a consistent user experience for exchanging data and ideas across multiple sites and on a wide range of endpoint computers. Progent has delivered remote consulting support for SharePoint and Exchange Server since their first publication and can assist businesses to configure these critical collaboration products to optimize 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 on top of Microsoft 365 and supports third-party cloud services to deliver real-time collaboration and communication. Developed as a substitute for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium can support chat, audio/video meetings with screen sharing, calling, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and application sharing. Teams is closely integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (formerly branded Azure Active Directory) for supporting its full range of features. To learn more about Progent's support services for Microsoft Teams, see solution design and deployment expertise for Microsoft Teams.
SharePoint utilizes web sites to allow collaboration and knowledge sharing by providing policy-driven delivery of data, business processes, and utilities for looking through company-wide information silos. SharePoint enables you to create secure web portals that allows at-home workforce to view and update consolidated business intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). To learn about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, refer to 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. To find out about Progent's Exchange consulting expertise, refer to integration consulting services for Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s collaborative cloud file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote users can store files to OneDrive, and co-workers anywhere can retrieve them safely through a browser. Provided with Office 365, OneDrive allows remote employees to co-edit documents. Edits created offline are uploaded when you go back online. For information about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft OneDrive, see Microsoft Onedrive integration consulting.
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