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3 Key Challenges for Small Business Outsourcing
Posted By Team 8KMiles
07 February 2010
Small and medium businesses may choose to outsource work for a variety of reasons. However, there are 3 key challenges or decision factors that are common to all businesses:
1. Addressing staffing and expertise shortfalls
2. Reducing security risks
3. Reducing costs (of infrastructure, software, people)
At 8KMiles, we have built our Virtual Outsourcing Ecosystem effectively addressing these challenges facing the small and medium businesses. Our huge (and growing) talent pool of verified professionals and small IT companies can be leveraged for on-demand access to talent across technologies and domains. Be it a healthcare firm looking to mobile-enable their solutions and hence requiring talent on iPhone, Android or J2ME based development or a manufacturing firm requiring CRM expertise for a CRM customization solution, 8KMiles is .
The 8KMiles ecosystem enables businesses to benefit from the services of a verified and assessed talent pool and qualified Project Managers / Project Management companies. With top quality talent and capable managers, buyers can be assured of high quality, on-time project delivery. Additionally, since the ecosystem consists of “Real People”, businesses sign contracts (and Non Disclosure Agreements) that are legally valid.
Our <a href="http://www.8kmiles.com/landing/cloud_infrastructure.html" target=_top>Virtual Computing environments</a> (VCE) help secure source code / data and provides real time project collaboration & tracking capabilities. They can also significantly reduce IT infrastructure costs and are well suited for application testing too.
In a nutshell, 8KMiles can address the outsourcing needs of small and medium sized businesses very effectively. Through the 8KMiles model, business owners can stay in complete control of the project, without having to worry about overheads in terms of cost, security issues and talent availability.
