Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Factors of production play an important role in the advancement of a business. The strength of a business depends upon its human resource. Human resource is though considered the important key for any business but the technological development has changes the scenario in today’s world.

Today the outsourcing of businesses is becoming very common and preferable by the businessmen. It is done for being cost efficient in proper way. Companies usually incur huge costs in recruiting the staff. Recruitment is a long procedure having being divide in certain steps i.e. short listing of candidates, walk in interviews, selection committee, hiring of employees and at last their training sessions. This long procedure can affect the business in any possible negative way. Time limitation in completing a huge task instantly is the big challenge for a company. The company faces a problem when there is small time limit for completing a big project. The best thing at this stage is to discover a best alternative for performing the required task timely rather than striking head in useless and unreliable procedures. To ask the pet employees to work as part timers can be a solution for the company. And if they agree, there could not be any other best alternative than this. On the contrary; company would have to go for another way if workers disagree.

Now a day the most commonly used way for getting the extra work done is giving the responsibilities to the third party. That third party could be an online company or any real one. That third party is usually known as a managed services provider. Managed services provider works as a third party for other companies, they usually works with lots of companies at a single time to maintain their business as well as to get profit. Managed services provider mainly works on monthly packages and they get the monthly charges from the companies, to which they used to provide their services. More precisely we can say that they generate their income and profit from getting projects from other companies by providing their services in return.

IT related problems and needs that are satisfied by the virtual service providers include the old data storage, maintaining the new data, their strong web presence by maintenance of web sites, building strong customer satisfaction features, logo designing and many more same kind of assistance services.

The services provided by managed service providers are supplied at lower cost as compared to the cost involved in the hiring of new employees so they are already trained people who are providing us this IT related services. This is very effective way to reduce the cost and time. This step towards the third party is taken mostly by modern companies.

Some positive points of managed services provider make it preferable over the recruitment of new employees. The companies facing the hurdles of money and space shortage problems usually do not want to make separate IT departments and can avail the virtual IT services from the managed services provider. Another advantage is of minimization of cost and saving of enough time to complete the work instead of hiring and training of the work force. Service provider run a whole broader system that can provide the thorough information and guidance related to each and every issue, but the one or two employees cannot manage that alone. A psychological need of managed service provider can provide better results for you i.e. they have to provide best services in order to retain their customers.

Some companies are reluctant in using the new virtual methods but mostly are switching to keep pace with the modern cost efficient and time saving techniques. With all the popularity that managed services provider have gained in a short period of time, it can be said that their future will make them approach the systems of those companies also, which are reluctant these days.

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