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?

One man as an IT department

The challenges for small businesses

What are the 10 most frequent issues affecting the solely working IT specialist?

1.      No one to bounce ideas off of.

It sometimes helps to think out loud, to speak, and get some feedback from someone who actually understands what you are doing. Without someone like that around, IT guys might start talking to themselves! The business risk is suppliers often are collocutors for the IT specialist, however they are in between the two roles – trusted advisor and sales force. They will provide the best advice, for sure, but the question is - who would it be best for. It is a little ambiguous – the company that the IT

Remote Workplaces and the Cloud Technologies

Remote employees are no longer a future project – they are a reality for the last two decades. Despite an abundance of scepticism (and a few outright bans like Yahoo), researchers keep finding that remote workers are more productive, less likely to quit, and generally better at their jobs. While some still find it hard to cut their ties to the office, the trend toward more remote work is clear. You can save commuting time and costs and spend with a family instead.

Business value in IT outsourcing

In simple language, outsourcing is the contracting out of a business function to an external supplier, involving the transfer of people as resources and capabilities, processes and assets. This contracting out can be undertaken at either an on-shore or off-shore location, and to one (single-sourced) or more (multi-sourced) outsourcing partners. Outsourcing is most mature in the Information Technology sector although it is increasingly developing to include a wide range of business processes.

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?