Software Solution Outsourcing: Is It Possible?

Before talking about software solution outsourcing, let’s first define what is outsourcing. Outsourcing refers to the transfer of the departments that are not your core activities to an external company. Outsourcing allows companies and their staff to have more time to focus on their core activities. It ensures that all your needs will be well handled by an expert team.

IT outsourcing

While talking about IT outsourcing, we always refer to outsourcing the company’s IT department in terms of networking:

• Network architecture
• Ready to use devices installation
• Peripheral device installation
• Software updates, firewalls, …
• Data back-up

All that IT needs mentioned previously are obviously handle within an IT outsourcing contracts. However, it remains possible to also outsource a software solution.

Software solution outsourcing

Managing a company’s network infrastructure is complex. It entails to adapt the infrastructure’s capacity to the present needs while making sure that it will be able to adjust itself to future needs. However, a company’s growth is hardly quantifiable in terms of software features. The software solution must often be adapted, adjusted and modified to answer the creation of new needs. A software solution outsourcing allows the company to create value continually. It guarantees that experts will work daily and proactively to reinforce and improve your infrastructure, boosting their effectiveness. Investing wisely in IT contributes directly to the achievement of entrepreneurs’ strategic objectives. Outsourcing is always a win-win solution. First, it’s a winning financial strategy: your maintenance annual budget might sharply decrease. It is also the peace of mind all year long. A multidisciplinary team is in charge of all the company’s needs (programmer, program analyst, business analyst, project manager…) Examples of services offer by GTI within a software solution outsourcing:

• Strategic and budget planning, consulting services
• Maintenance and optimization of FileMaker solutions
• Analysis, development, testing, and deployment of solutions or new modules
• Proactive surveillance of your solutions (Preventive Morning Surveillance)
• Help Desk: user support
• Management and prioritization of projects and requests
• UX/UI ergonomics
• Project management based on the Agile methodology

To conclude…

A computer network’s infrastructure can be a source of inefficiency if it is not well set up. It can be detrimental to the company’s performance. Yet, it is. Outsourcing is a way to make the most of a company’s IT strategy.