Future trend, driven by a need to reduce overhead and focus on core competencies.

Disastrous consequences in the future due to breaking up the company due to a lack of money, vision and resources.

Netmation can help provide a review of your systems to determine first if major cost improvements can be made without outsourcing major pieces of your business. If proper analysis and planning is achieved there can be benefits realized from outsourcing certain pieces of the puzzle.

Benefits
Companies are no longer asking, "Is this the right move?" but rather, "What should we outsource?" Resons for the sudden increase in outsourcing companies are electing to do generally are initiated do achive some of the following benefits:

• Improve company focus
• Protect against technological obsolescence
• Reduce users responsibility
• Gain access to world-class capabilities
• Accelerate the benefits of re-engineering
• Share risks
• Free non-capital resources
• Make capital funds available
• Reduce operating costs
• Seek cash infusion
• Resources not available internally
• Improve technical expertise
• Function difficult to manage

More and more companies are outsourcing due to tight budgets and finding their small staffs strained to keep up with the rapid changing technology. Outsourcing, once thought appropriate only for large companies is now finding its way into small and medium size corporations as well.

Types of Outsourcing
Outsourcing can affect all areas of Information Systems. When outsourcing first became popular many companies chose to outsource the entire corporate Information System function. Since then companies have been much more selective and outsourcing specific functions and applications.

Telecommunications and Local Area Networks Outsourcing telecommunications provides flexibility to enable companies to take full advantage of new and improved services.

Help Desk
An informational source for end users where they can achive a single point of contact for all support services.

Software Development
Outsourcing development projects has several variants. How much of a project is outsourced can differ for each individual project. A single phase of a project (e.g. planning, design, development, maintenance) can be outsourced or the entire projects responsibility can be assumed by the outsourced application development team.

Mainframe Data Processing
Mainframe outsourcing often will take on the added responsibility of hardware ownership to help leverage resources with additional clients.

Netmation can help you analyze your existing operations and make recommendations on what activities would benefit from outsourcing, if any. Many times we have seen companies sign large oursourcing contracts only to regret the loss of control for certain aspects of the business. Though outsourcing can achieve benefits often too much is contracted out when cheaper and more efficient means could of easily been implemented in-house.