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		<title>The Need For Bundled Outsourcing In Business Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bundled outsourcing is popular among business people today. Most financial organizations have started including Information Technology Outsourcing or ITO and Business Process Outsourcing or BPO in their core business strategies. Processing and administration of loans are two reasons why many companies choose to outsource.
Saving Both Time And Money
Other examples of bundled outsourcing are super markets [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/65.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-318 alignright" title="Bundled Offshore Outsourcing" src="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/65.jpg" alt="Bundled Offshore Outsourcing" width="320" height="214" /></a>Bundled outsourcing</a> is popular among business people today. Most financial organizations have started including Information Technology Outsourcing or <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">ITO</a> and <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">Business Process Outsourcing</a> or <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">BPO</a> in their core business strategies. Processing and administration of loans are two reasons why many companies choose to outsource.</p>
<p><strong>Saving Both Time And Money</strong></p>
<p><span id="more-317"></span>Other examples of bundled outsourcing are super markets and many retail stores that provide <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">financial services</a>, loan, mortgage, saving and <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">insurance services</a>. These services provide credit and risk strategies to customers. They ensure that the company moves ahead at a very fast pace and in a cost effective manner. Companies that choose to build their own platform and processing everything themselves, spend more time and money in the process. Bundled outsourcing helps the company to keep the staff to a minimum leaving the handling of loans and the legal process associated with them to professionals.</p>
<p><strong>Arrangements and Factors Affecting Bundled Outsourcing </strong></p>
<p>You should seriously consider making arrangements regarding bundled outsourcing. This kind of transaction requires the involvement of top executives of both business and information technology. These decisions require support from senior level management, so that the transactions may take place smoothly. Many of the top-level executives try to influence the process just to safeguard their own business interests and that is often the nature of business. Governance remains a major factor that affects the bundled outsourcing. The question here is whether the governance standards should be allowed to influence the decision of bundled outsourcing or should the bundled outsourcing be given the priority by making changes in the governance standards.</p>
<p><strong>People Are Coming Up With Innovative Ideas</strong></p>
<p>If you move ahead cautiously and have the ability to overcome the hurdles, then it is possible to gain major advantages by combining business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing. Some companies still have fears when they think about bundled outsourcing. However, the cutthroat competition in the businesses today has made outsourcing an important tool. Companies are devising innovative methods in this field. Some of the companies have outsourced both IT functions and selected business processes to service providers. They believe that this will help them in concentrating more on the core issues and adding values to the products.</p>
<p><strong>Importance Of Bundled Outsourcing To The Software Industry</strong></p>
<p>Bundled outsourcing is the foundation on which the software industry rests. In an industry as complex as the software industry, many facets of the manufacturing of products must be handled outside of the scope of one particular company. This results in a long line of different outsourcing relationships from conception to marketing and finally into the hands of the consumer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.articlecircle.com/business/management/organizational/the-need-for-bundled-outsourcing-in-business-today.html" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p>In today’s <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">global economy</a> IT Outsourcing and BPO are standard operating procedures for most companies.  As a small to midsized business owner theses concepts are now becoming mainstream as well.  There are not too many individual business owners that have not heard of <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">the benefits of outsourcing</a> there non core<a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank"> business functions</a> to outsourcing providers.</p>
<p>Outsourcing solutions today can mean the difference between turning a profit and going out of business.  Small business owners cannot afford to risk going over budget on their operating costs within the first year and outsourcing there back office functions can save them thousands of dollars on overhead costs including more office space, equipment, office supplies, etc.</p>
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<p>Omar Pinto<br />
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		<title>Reducing IT infrastructure costs via outsourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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New research commissioned by Savvis shows that infrastructure outsourcing and cloud computing efforts are being taken very seriously by CIOs. IT leaders appear to be more oriented to reduction in infrastructure spending, where other industries such as media and retail, focus on staff reductions.
67 percent of all IT leaders are under pressure to do more [...]]]></description>
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<p>New research commissioned by Savvis shows that infrastructure outsourcing and cloud computing efforts are being taken very seriously by CIOs. IT leaders appear to be more oriented to reduction in infrastructure spending, where other industries such as media and retail, focus on staff reductions.</p>
<p><strong>67 percent</strong> of all IT leaders are under pressure to do more with reduced budgets. (I would have expected an even higher percentage.)</p>
<p><strong>52 percent</strong> of IT executives noted that the greatest cost savings will emanate from reducing infrastructure costs, reducing staff levels (49 percent) and a virtualization strategy (44 percent)</p>
<p><strong><span id="more-289"></span>72 percent </strong>of IT executives believe cloud computing will play an important role in the future of IT in helping companies gain efficiencies and reduce cost.</p>
<p>One immediate way IT execs could save money on infrastructure costs would be through the use of open-source alternatives, but the research questions were geared toward outsourcing and not software alternatives. Interestingly, financial services respondents reported that virtualization would provide their biggest cost savings.</p>
<p><strong>Top cost savings in 2009 by industry: </strong></p>
<p>Financial services&#8211;virtualization strategy<br />
Media&#8211;reducing staff levels<br />
Health care&#8211;reducing infrastructure costs &amp; standardizing IT infrastructure solutions<br />
Business &amp; Professional services&#8211;standardizing IT infrastructure solutions<br />
Retail&#8211;reducing staff levels<br />
Manufacturing&#8211;reducing infrastructure costs<br />
Public sector&#8211;infrastructure consolidation</p>
<p>When asked &#8220;where do you see your cost savings or efficiencies coming from in 2009?&#8221; it&#8217;s clear that IT leaders are looking holistically across all areas, as opposed to any one specific place for cost reduction:</p>
<p>Core server(s) support, 21 percent<br />
Data centre infrastructure, 16 percent<br />
Storage and back-up support, 15 percent<br />
Desktop support, 14 percent<br />
Network support, 14 percent<br />
Non-application software, 12 percent<br />
(Note: the above is based on a total of 100 percent)</p>
<p>Asked where cost savings or efficiencies will come from in 2009, about half of the respondents will reduce both infrastructure and staff. Only 2 percent reported that they weren&#8217;t being asked to reduce costs.</p>
<p>Reducing infrastructure costs, 52 percent<br />
Staff levels, 49 percent<br />
A virtualization strategy, 44 percent<br />
Infrastructure consolidation, 42 percent<br />
Standardising our IT infrastructure solutions, 38 percent<br />
Nowhere, we&#8217;re not being asked to cut costs, 2 percent</p>
<p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10235742-62.html?tag=mncol" target="_blank">By Dave Rosenberg</a></p>
<p>Today it seems that no matter what your business model is <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">outsourcing</a> <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">business processes</a> and functions is the key to saving time and money.  So much money is spent on servers, computers, server rooms, rent, electricity, etc. Not to mention the man power required to manage and maintain these functions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">Global technological</a> advancements have made it possible for companies all over the world to outsource there business processes efficiently and significantly more cost effectively in another country.  One such country would be Costa Rica which one of the most advanced telecommunications infrastructures in the world.</p>
<p>In Costa Rica you can find IT call center support, <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">IT outsourcing</a>, programming, graphic design, etc. that is also <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">Nearshore solution</a> for <a href="http://www.offshoresavingsolutions.com" target="_blank">Offshore Outsourcing</a>.  The same time zone, a similar culture and the same language at a much lower price.</p>
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