Today, progressive organizations in both the private and public sectors are turning to software outsourcing, the so-called utility computing model, which allows a company to have its software professionally managed – either at their own offices, the IT vendor’s premises or at a third party’s premises – and to connect to their data through browser.
The benefits are enormous. Software outsourcing eliminates all the headaches of the sheer administrative burden of maintaining essential software, the deployment of new project IT, the ongoing upgrades, the sourcing of scarce IT staff, and the employee or consultant costs.
Combined with technical staff of the host’s staff, this results in negligible downtime. Users always have the latest version of the software. And the uptake of this model is increasing.
The outsourcing of the IT infrastructure is not new, but the traditional model is changing, as software delivered as a service using Internet technology is the next logical step.
There is no longer the need to distribute the computers and to co-locate them with the users. By providing software applications like a utility can better manage the distribution of their resource. Mobility of the workforce can be achieves easily and transparently by providing access to the corporate systems any place, any time via a spectrum of mobile devices.
Software Outsourcing
