Outsourcing services both on a national level as well as to offshore destinations has become a very popular choice for companies nowadays. Once one finds a reliable business partner, outsourcing certain services can provide not only large cost cuts but also a higher level of quality. Outsourcing services does not only provide benefits to multinational companies that receive economies of scale, but also to small companies that cannot afford not to outsource. Creating and maintaining all possible services in-house can be very costly for small companies. And most small companies have been outsourcing many of their services from the very foundation of their company. It is only offshore outsourcing that has become a new trend. In today’s global world companies are beginning to realize that they have the possibility of utilizing the services and expertise of specialized companies in offshore destinations. The range on services that are being outsourced varies tremendously and even outsourcing of core business operations is now being studied.
Below you will find a list of services that can be outsourced, although the range of services is continuously changing.
- IT Services
- Software development services
- Application development and management
- Re-engineering
- Conversion and migration (across platforms/ languages/ versions)
- Data warehousing and mining
- Embedded systems
- E-commerce applications
- Programming
- C, C++, VisualC++, Java, Javascript, Java Beans, Java Server Pages (JSP), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), ASP (Active Server Pages)
- Visual Basic
- Microsoft Access
- Novell Networking
- EDI and Integration
- Bar Coding and Hand Held Data Collection
- DOS, Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT
- Business and Industrial Systems
- Support of spreadsheets, word-processing and various 3rd party applications
- Data Entry
- Data control audits
- Regular reporting of work systems
- Data entry software and validation tables
- Dispatch of data to the customer
- Double keyed data (when required by the customer)
- Proof checks
- PC hardware and services
