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When hiring a full-time IT staff or professional, you might not be fully aware of what you even need. You’re not an IT expert, and that’s why you’re hiring one. Also, your needs may change and you may need to ramp up or scale down your budget.
Outsourcing your IT support lets you add skills and competencies, without adding new staff. You only pay for what you need, with the flexibility of changing your mind. You can change things up without having to worry about having to hire or fire new staffers.
An increasing quantity of small businesses are outsourcing IT security services to specialist providers. In all likelihood, if you are a small business owner in Ontario or Calgary, you will have considered outsourcing certain business tasks at one point or another. Budget-savvy businesses are turning to IT outsourcing as a smart way to control their IT budget.
The Soft Wave alleviates the need to staff a full-time IT employee (or team) while giving you access to services that would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep in-house.
YOU WANT TO FREE UP YOUR STAFF AND IT BUDGET
Keep the daunting cost of full-time IT professionals off your books, and only pay for what you need. Keeping a full-time employee on staff costs considerably more, as you have to pay them a salary and other benefits.
YOU’RE OVERPAYING FOR YOUR CURRENT IT SUPPORT
Maybe your needs have changed, or maybe you didn’t realize how much or how little IT support you were going to need when you made your current investment.
YOU’RE UNCLEAR AS TO WHAT YOU NEED
Outsourcing your IT gives you the ability to monitor your needs and your spending while giving you the flexibility to change your mind.
YOU’RE A START-UP
Funds can be tight before you go public and sell for billions. In those first financially tight years, outsourcing your IT is a great way to keep your costs at a manageable level, while still getting access to the same services that industry heavyweights get.
We can also advise you on your current systems, to let you know if there are places where you could be better spending your money.
SOME OF THE SERVICES YOU CAN OUTSOURCE TO US INCLUDE:
- Software upgrades and updates
- Virus shield, security and firewall admin
- Bandwidth monitoring
- Product licence management
- Vendor management
- Connectivity to the network and other devices
- Cloud management
EXPERTS ABOUT IT OUTSOURCING
You may not have time to research all of the IT outsourcing articles out there to make an informed decision about whether or not outsourcing is right for your company.
However, you need to do some research, because what you do with your IT support system will have a significant impact on the business. So that you will have to sacrifice neither your time nor your understanding, we are going to break down what some of the top IT industry experts around the world are saying about outsourcing IT support.
Demand Media: “Outsourced IT work boasts technological capabilities superior to the organization”
Technology is constantly evolving. It evolves so quickly that you can purchase a piece of IT support equipment one day, only to discover that it is effectively outdated one or two months later. A good outsourcing IT company will be on top of the latest IT industry innovations at all times. By working with these organizations, you gain access to the best technology for optimal IT support at the same time that they do.
Business Solutions and Technologies: “The new trend in the technology space is outsourcing and this helps organizations to concentrate on their core businesses and increase productivity”
Building an IT support infrastructure from the ground up is not as simple as hiring a few technicians and purchasing some equipment. You need to establish a comprehensive IT support infrastructure. This requires you to dedicate the time that should be used to focus on your business. As the CEO of Wragby Business Solutions and Technologies proclaimed in the quote above, outsourcing your IT support resolves this problem.
The Daily Telegraph: “outsourcing can cut your IT costs by 30 percent”
This proclamation by the technology industry writing team of one of the UK’s largest newspapers is a culmination of the facts discussed by the other IT experts mentioned in this article. Due to its high level of efficiency and access, outsourcing IT support can significantly reduce the company’s total IT costs by up to 30 percent.
CANADIAN BUSINESS OWNERS CONTINUE THE TREND TOWARDS OUTSOURCING IT SUPPORT
Savvy Canadian business owners have always understood the importance of outsourcing services. From successful small businesses to large corporations, the business continues to outsource IT services. Outsourcing IT services affords a small to large company a mechanism to have resources at their disposal without the hefty price tag associated with employing a full-time resource.
Smaller companies continue to contract and outsource their IT services to a managed IT services provider which is proven to be a more cost-effective solution versus hiring technical staff.
Larger companies also enjoy the benefit of having a managed IT services provider available to help with the management of key IT infrastructures such as switches, routers, firewalls, and even servers, VMware virtual servers and other key network components.
Outsourcing IT is cost-effective, however, the additional benefits include allowing a business to become more agile and prepared when responding to IT challenges that could have a positive or negative impact on the overall business. Keeping up with the latest trends, technology solutions, and training on these technologies can be costly and take in-house professionals away from their day-to-day tasks.
According to a recent survey by Baseline Magazine, “CIOs are embracing the elastic workforce to gain access not only to more talent but also to a specialized pool of workers at the top of their game who offer an outsider’s perspective.”
- 32% of those surveyed will increase outsourced IT investments in the next 12 to 18 months.
- 48% of these enterprises will bring in more contractors rather than full-time staff.
- 48 cents of every outsourcing dollar is being spent on application services.
- 35 cents of every outsourcing dollar is being spent on IT infrastructure services.
- 16% of data center operations are managed in the cloud.
- 35% of companies plan to increase the outsourcing of application hosting in the next 12 to 18 months.
- 23% of installed applications were running in a virtual machine (VM) in 2010 and now 48% of installed applications are currently running on a VM.
- 22% plan to increase the outsourcing of data center operations within the next 12 to 18 months.
- 21% plan to increase the outsourcing of network operations within the next 12 to 18 months.
- 17% of businesses plan to increase the outsourcing of disaster recovery within the next 12 to 18 months.
Outsourcing IT services continue to gain momentum and this is why having a trusted IT services firm who can help with application services, disaster recovery, cloud, and data center management, and help with day-to-day IT services is crucial to your bottom line and even top-line revenues.
Our team is here to help. Give us a call and book a complimentary review of your entire IT network and let’s see if outsourcing IT services make sense for your business.