IT outsourcing takes place when a company hires an outsourcing team to carry out certain IT functions and tasks. Such outsourcing services include creating a website, providing ongoing technical support or infrastructure management.
Such an approach saves a company’s time and budget on maintaining the IT staff, boosting the quality of the development process. Outstaffing also gives the company access to experts and resources that are not available inside their team.
What IT Outsourcing Includes
IT outstaffing encompasses a wide range of services, from administering databases to creating a corporate website. For instance, our team provides the following services:
- The development of mobile and desktop applications for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS;
- Web development involves the creation of web projects of any complexity, such as web applications, corporate blogs, online stores and other informational and commercial resources;
- Developing additional features and providing ongoing support to our clients' IT projects;
- Data analytics encompasses work with databases, Big Data, solving related outsourcing tasks connected to machine learning, smart algorithms creation and learning of neural networks.
- DevOps engineer services. Include monitoring and managing IT infrastructure, administering and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering);
- Quality assurance of existing IT systems. We can test functions and load-bearing capacity of software;
- Design, i.e., designing and bringing the User Interface and User Experience into life for applications and websites, page layout.
OrbitSoft Case: a Finnish marketing company outsources a range of services, including front-end developers for improving the interface of a corporate advertising platform, QA specialists for checking out the performance of search robots and a DevOps engineer for eliminating system flaws.
In the course of 12 months of collaboration, the number of outsourcing developers has increased from 2 to 5 people. Our specialists have become an integral part of their team by taking part in planning and sprint task sprints.
The Advantages of Delegating Tasks to Outsource
Here’s the list of 7 pros of outsourcing your IT projects:
- Saving time and money. The client boosts the development process of an IT solution and mitigates the expenses on software purchase and staff training. Instead, you get the opportunity to plan your budget and pay only for the services your business actually needs.
- Economizing on staff recruitment. IT outsourcing connects you with top-notch experts from a wide range of IT fields, such as developers, DevOps engineers and QA specialists. This way, you stop wasting your time and effort on searching for them and selecting the perfect fit for you. It is a crucial point for resolving complex tasks, such as cybersecurity, or developing a one-off project, e.g., a mobile app development.
- Concentrating on your core business. By outsourcing IT functions, a company can focus on their main activity and strategic tasks. There will be no room for distraction on managing IT infrastructure and solving operational problems.
- Flexibility and scalability. IT outsourcing allows for quick infrastructure scalability in accordance with the company’s needs. It may involve the integration of additional server resources.
- Cutting the development time. Gratefully to the outsourcing company experts' experience, the development and the implementation of projects takes less time. It allows for achieving business goals in a more time- and cost-efficient way.
- Mitigating the risks. IT outsource providers need to abide by the law and data security standards. It helps minimize the risks in terms of cybersecurity and compliance with the law.
- A straightforward scheme of collaborating with an IT company is prescribed in the contract with a legislative power. This results in cybersecurity and high quality of the services received.
The process of collaborating with an outsourcing team saves time and simplifies the work with infrastructure. Nevertheless, IT outsourcing may result in running the risks of losing control under side providers. This is the reason why you need to take care of selecting a reliable outsource company.
