ACP, Inc --- Consulting Services

Consulting Services
ACP, Inc has built a reputation as a trustworthy and dependable technology resource for businesses in the Southeast since 1995. Our clients have stayed with us because of the value we provide as a technical extension of their company. We are able to service our clients needs with advice and support for the latest in security, team collaboration, business efficiency, application development and mobility because of our commitment to ongoing education. Our clients, big and small, rely on our expertise to help them grow.

Sharepoint Portal Server 2001-2003 MOSS 2007
ACP understands that in the new world of information technology the way that you connect and collaborate is critical to running a business. SharePoint Portal Server 2007 enables a single point of access to multiple systems such as Microsoft Office System programs, business intelligence and project management systems, and existing line-of-business applications, including third-party and industry-specific programs. The portal, built on a scalable, highly distributed architecture, provides flexible tools for deployment, development, and management, all of which enable the portal to grow with your organizations needs. These integration features enable you to harness information to make use of your company's resources. Users can extract and reuse timely and relevant information from systems and reports, and quickly locate and access documents, projects, and best practices across the company.

In keeping with our ACP's core value of having the highest level of technical expertise attainable; every technical staff member at ACP holds one or more of Microsoft's highest level of Certifications. Multiple staff members have been on the Microsoft Office 2007 Rapid Deployment program, multiple ACP associates are also serving as board members for Microsoft Project Association. One ACP associate currently serves a a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the Microsoft Management Users Group and is a member of the SharePoint Pro Research Panel.

Virtual Computing
"Virtualization is the biggest inflexion point in computing in the last 10 years"
Mark L Carter, former Southern Company Executive and ACP founder, in a speech at NASA

ACP, Alabama’s only VM Ware VAC (Authorized Consulting Firm), leads the Southeast in allowing you to optimize and manage your IT infrastructure, from the desktop to the data center, by enabling you to virtualize computing, storage and networking systems while bolstering end user performance.

Our documented process and expert level knowledge of the technologies involved afford our clients the benefit of receiving almost immediate ROI while simplifying the complexity of delivering enterprise services.

ACP’s fully trained and certified associates knowledge of the virtualization realm allows our clients an enterprise-class virtual infrastructure that increases server and other resource utilization, improves performance and increases security while minimizing system downtime.

By leveraging your existing technology, virtualization enables the roll out of new applications with less risk and lower platform costs along with alleviating much of the cost associated with Disaster Recovery.

Bottom line, you can do more much more with far less cost!

Don’t get behind, let us talk to you about giving your company the competitive advantages and hard cost savings our virtualization clients are already realizing.

Microsoft Exchange Design and Installation
ACP is the messaging expert when it comes to Microsoft Exchange design and deployment. To compete successfully in today's challenging business climate, organizations must enable more efficient ways for knowledge workers to communicate and collaborate. E-mail is currently the most widely used collaborative technology. More businesses use Exchange Server for e-mail-based collaboration than any other product. Exchange Server 2007 enables knowledge workers to gain access to critical business communications almost whenever and wherever they need to and is designed to deliver greater security, availability, and reliability.

AD Design
ACP employs Microsoft Certified Engineers that have over 30 years of combined experience assisting customers with Microsoft Active Directory Design and Installation. Active Directory is a directory service that is both a management and user tool. As the number of objects in a network grows, the directory service becomes essential. The directory service is the hub around which a large system turns. To address these needs, Windows 2008 Server uses Active Directory, which is an integrated set of directory services that improve the management, security, and interoperability of the Windows network operating system. Windows 2008s Active Directory provides:

Simplified management.
Provides a single, consistent point of management for users, applications, and devices.
Provides users with a single sign-on to network resources and provides administrators with powerful and consistent tools to manage security services for internal desktop users, remote dial-up users, and external e-commerce customers. This is essential for networks connected to the Internet that require strong file security.
Extended interoperability.
Supplies standards-based access to all Active Directory features as well as synchronization support for popular directories such as Microsoft Exchange.

Technology Deployment Services
ACP Deployment Services delivers a full range of enterprise technology deployment and desktop migration solutions to corporate IT organizations - quickly and efficiently. We are experts at successfully meeting the challenging complexities of large-scale technology deployments, including project management, scheduling, logistics, data transfer and staffing services.

Microsoft ISA Server 2006 Design and Deployment
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 is the advanced stateful packet and application-layer inspection firewall, virtual private network (VPN), and Web cache solution that enables enterprise customers to easily maximize existing information technology (IT) investments by improving network security and performance. ISA Server 2006 is available in two versions: standard edition and enterprise edition. Information included in this product overview includes features and capabilities in both versions, unless otherwise specified.

ACP understands how to design and deploy ISA Server 2006 to provide advanced protection, ease of use, and fast, secure access for all types of networks. ISA Server 2006 is particularly well suited for protecting large enterprise network configurations requiring multiple firewall arrays in disparate locations that are running Microsoft client and server applications, such as Microsoft Office, Office Outlook Web Access 2003, Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Internet Information Services (IIS), Routing and Remote Access, Active Directory directory service, and many other Microsoft applications, servers, and services.