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
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