Защо малкият бизнес изнася ИТ услуги към външни доставчици?

(stay tuned for the English version)

В продължение към предишния пост „Човекът ИТ отдел в малкия бизнес“ тук ще разгледаме
основните мотиви за изнасяне на ИТ услуги. Малкият мащаб на пазара в България и неговите участници предопределят необходимостта от споделен ресурс. Всеки бизнес, колкото и малък да е той, има нужда от почти същите услуги, аналогично на големите корпорации. Разликата е, че големите имат мащаба и възможностите да създадат и поддържат вътрешна ИТ организация.
А какво да прави малкият бизнес? Да получи същите услуги със същото или дори по-добро качество при това на по-ниска цена?!?! Как е възможно при условие, че дори наемането на един специалист трудно оправдава разходите от гледна точка на това колко и с какви задачи е натоварен той?

Digital Disruption

Very short survival guide

Digital Disruption in the last years marked a shift in the collective consciousness of businesses. No longer was disruption a mythical buzz word concocted to stir up fear, but a general state of business reality in world governed by technology.
It’s like a democratization of experience. If you look at Uber, it allows everybody to have a limo service at a relatively inexpensive rate. Things that perhaps only the one percent could afford, are now being moved to the broader base through technology. You can call it disruption, give it different words, but what it’s doing is allowing everybody to purchase experiences that traditionally would have cost a lot of time and money. It’s not the same way of doing business, it’s certainly exciting times.
The term digital disruption has become

Small Business Survival Guide

Only 10% of small businesses survive first five years, and again 10% of them will survive between next five years period. This data underscores that small business ownership is no cakewalk.
Beyond the classic entrepreneurial challenge of making and sustaining a profit, small business owners now struggle to find time and resources to adapt to new technology, say experts.
The pace of technological development is as staggering as the ever-changing ways that consumers engage and utilize it. To stay competitive to consumers and to employees,

Outsourcing of IT Managed Services

Challenges and Solutions

Threat to Security and Confidentiality
The vital asset of any business is the information that keeps it running. Whatever you have as information assets, intellectual property or any other confidential information that would be exposed to the outsourcing organisation, there is a risk that the confidentiality may be compromised. If the outsourced function involves sharing proprietary company data or knowledge, this must be taken into account. Evaluate the outsourcing organisation carefully and prepare NDA to make sure your data is protected and the agreement has a penalty clause if an incident occurs.
Do you have action plan and implemented process prior of the incident? Communication plan?

Small scale markets

  Every business needs up to date information technology. Bulgarian companies also. They are pressured by increasing competition in business environment, but opening of Bulgaria to international markets, direct relation with the country’s entry into the European Union.
  Dealing successfully with challenges, they increasingly depend on the collaboration tools. Access to shared resources is the key. It may be common accessed information, applications and devices. They should rely on the reliability and accessibility at any time. This is the birth of naturally need a computer, which can store and process the most important information about the company – especially developed by the manufacturer system, called server.
  With the rapid and headlong development of industry – all high class servers with 4 and 8 processors technology are available for the lower class machines, designed for small and medium businesses. With attractive prices of course. However, companies limited by their own IT budgets are often hesitate – server or PC?