Outsourcing services
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
o Software development services
o Application development and management
o Re-engineering
o Conversion and migration (across
platforms/ languages/ versions)
o Data warehousing and mining
o Embedded systems
o E-commerce applications
• Programming
o C, C++, VisualC++, Java, Javascript, Java
Beans, Java Server Pages (JSP), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), ASP
(Active Server Pages)
o Visual Basic
o Microsoft Access
o Novell Networking
o EDI and Integration
o Bar Coding and Hand Held Data Collection
o DOS, Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT
o Business and Industrial Systems
o Support of spreadsheets, word-processing
and various 3rd party applications
• Data Entry
o Data control audits
o Regular reporting of work systems
o Data entry software and validation tables
o Dispatch of data to the customer
o Double keyed data (when required by the
customer)
o Proof checks
o PC hardware and services
