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How Outsourcing Business Services Can Give You an Edge

Written by Uassist.ME Team | Feb 20, 2020 4:56:17 PM

Experienced teams are all the more in demand now with the constant uprising in competition to satisfy customer needs efficiently. Modern demands require a modern approach to modifying the code and developing the software. With the continuous evolution in the business market, startups and especially those with a limited budget, are against severe challenges to keep their boats afloat.

The best solution that technology has granted us is to opt for outsourcing businesses. This is, by far, the best strategic and cost-efficient method to give your business just the edge it needs.

To further convince you of the attractions of outsourcing your business, we will discuss below some of the foolproof advantages this strategy provides us. In all of this, the constants remain quality, speed, and innovation.

1.     Cost-Effective

Small startups mainly struggle to survive because of their financial limitations. For this purpose, outsourcing is the best possible solution because it minimizes the operational expenses by a far measure and retains the money that is otherwise spent on employee attrition.

When you outsource your business development to software teams, they save precious cash and time in many ways. With this, you do not have to undergo the traditional hiring route or bear the additional expenses of bringing in new hires. Your outsourcing partner takes responsibility for selecting the most qualified individual for your needs, supplies them with the required tools, and keeps replacements on hand in case a team member leaves without notice.

2.     Flexibility

With outsourcing, you gain a lot of flexibility in a lot of things. Primarily, you are not bound by any contract. Secondly, in the absence of direct management, you do not require setting up technology, which is important for managing things. In this scenario, you allow your IT team to develop more on the core business needs, which certainly gives a lot of edge to the business expansion and efficiency.

As a customer, too, outsourcing gives you the flexibility to change your vendor at any time you feel dissatisfied with the service they provide. The absence of a contracting binding leaves you at the disposal to select and drop vendors as per your choice and satisfaction.

3.     Scalable

When the business season is at the peak, the volume of business increases, which may require more agents to meet your challenges in the peak time. With an outsourcing approach, a virtual team provides you an already trained staff with the required number of agents to meet the volume of your business needs.

Outsourcing gives you the flexibility to scale up or scale down as the volume of business determines. With this, you save yourself the time-consuming hassle of manually hiring new staff and training them to meet increased business needs. When the business is functioning at a full level, your outsourcing team can increase the number of agents for your project. Conversely, as the business season trickles down to a gradual flow, the provider can scale down your team accordingly.

4.     Access to a Larger Talent Pool

Being a small startup, it often makes us feel as if we are not worthy yet of hiring top-notch qualified experts to serve our business. Thanks to the advancements of internet connectivity, we now have access to a globalized workforce. Due to this, hiring options have become larger and wider, and one can easily access top-notch talent across the world.

Neither can the physical distance, nor the limitations of operational setup restrict you because you can freely select an outsourcing provider nearshore or offshore for your software enhancement. Although different time zones may possibly pose a challenge, most companies allow that factor to work in their favor. They may schedule the outsource staff to work when the in-house teams are off the clock so that the development process stays in motion 24 hours.

As a business owner, you can ensure that all your teams are on the same page by regularly taking updates via video chats, instant messaging, and the regular means of communication.

5.     Saves on Physical Space/ Overhead Costs

Outsourcing your business comes with plenty of cost minimization and big savings. To begin with, the cost of setting up a physical office itself is humongous considering the rent, the machinery and equipment, the furniture, and these are just a few things to mention. Add in the overhead costs such as medical facilities, billings, call center and etc.; you would have stacks of bills at the end of each month to clear off. With outsourcing, thankfully, all of these expenses completely vanish, and all you have to do is pay for virtual staff for the number of hours they put into your business.

If you outsource to a low-cost country especially, you save up around 60% of your finances and get quality services at the same time. In simple words, maintaining a physical infrastructure is simply an expensive burden which outsourcing can easily remove for you.

6.     Faster Market Entrance

Every software development team’s ultimate mission is to hit the market faster with their successful product. At the back-end, this successful product in question must be totally functional and be equipped to give an exceptional user experience. This is the surest way of increasing brand loyalty and attracting more and more customers.

Software development comes with its fair share of complications and is linear. One cannot expect a software development process to complete in a flash. You also have to take into account the code building, testing, retesting, and rebuilding, where high-quality performance is the ultimate goal. Reducing threats is also another core factor that the team primarily has to tackle.

In an in-house setup, when you incorporate the process of hiring, onboarding, and training, it adds considerably to the length of time the software development will take. However, with outsourcing, you are exposed to an already trained team that is already aware of and dedicated to the required methodology for completing your project successfully and efficiently within the stipulated time. In fact, with even more improvisations in the outsourcing teams, they are using more agile techniques now to streamline your development processes and quicken your entry into the market.

7.     Diverse Technology

One of the key advantages of outsourcing is that you have access to the latest technology through an outsourcing staff. Technological changes are on the constant rise with competition become fiercer. The new technology is not only quite expensive to install but also makes you obsolete and outdated in the world of business if you do not keep up with them. So what does a startup or a business do if it is unable to afford the required advanced technology? Outsource Of course!

Technology affects every business we know, which is one major reason why you really should not second thoughts about outsourcing. Your business will become more agile if you save up on the capital expenditures and simply employ a virtual team that already works with the updated technology and software. Your business receives its boosted edge, and your firm has access to the latest technology through your outsourced team — a sure way to grow faster and grow technologically well-equipped.