If you and your team experience a lot of those small frustrations, the numbers add up quickly.<\/strong> It’s time to look into hiring an IT specialist to help you out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hiring a full-time qualified IT engineer brings quite an overhead<\/strong>, and not only financially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Finding the right person, assessing their skills, keeping them, and dealing with absences such as sickness or holidays, that takes a lot of time too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, IT Outsourcing is about hiring a specialist company that will handle everything for you, letting you focus on your business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They will perform background work such as updating computers and servers, ensuring backups<\/a> are done, managing security, and of course helping users<\/a> and fixing things when they break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your first impulse might be to hire someone. Having an IT Support specialist in-house sounds good, they’re here every day, report to you directly, and are fully part of your team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, hiring internally quickly becomes expensive<\/strong>. Unless you are comfortable with IT yourself, how will you identify a good candidate? You might pick at random, trusting your gut, or hire a costly recruitment company, <\/p>\n\n\n\n Once they’re on board, you’ll need someone to manage them, train them, replace them<\/strong> when they take a leave, take them to team building, give them a yearly bonus…<\/p>\n\n\n\n For their work, they’ll need some specialized and software to perform their work, monitor the infrastructure, deploy applications, etc. All these can also end up pricey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A good IT Outsourcing company takes care of everything for a monthly fee. <\/strong>It will find hire and train a team of Engineers . It will invest in expensive tools and software and share them among many clients, so you only pay a fraction of their costs. It will train and send replacements if the regular engineer is unavailable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, yes, that monthly fee is often less than just the salary<\/strong> of a full-time employee, let alone the extra costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find highly specialized people, or you can find Jack-of-all-trades. But IT is too vast a subject to be an expert in everything. <\/strong>Managing a server takes a whole lot of different skills than securing a network. WiFi can get complex if you need more than a few Access Points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There, a good IT partner will help. As they have a full team of engineers<\/strong>, some of them tend to specialize in one field. They can guide the others or perform the task themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This ensures that, whatever your request might be, it will be addressed and taken care of quickly and efficiently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your IT Outsourcing company likely also has a good network of partners for IT-related activities<\/strong>, such as equipment and software vendors electricians, HVAC and CCTV installers, phone and PBX specialists, web hosting<\/a>, web design<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This really can save you a lot of time for your different projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hiring your own IT Support Specialist can still make sense sometimes. Larger SMEs can justify having a support team under an IT manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even in that case, the support team is fine tuned for the every-day, common tasks encountered by the business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Once in a while, some project will require a specific set of skills or tools <\/strong>that the team does not possess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n WiFi surveys, for example, require specialized training, and expensive tools to provide accurate results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Network cabling will require a lot of manpower, data recovery needs tools, server hosting means a data center…<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might also need around-the-clock support<\/strong>, but don’t want to hire specially for nights and weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n IT Outsourcing does not always mean you have no interna IT at all. In fact, we often work together with internal teams for specific projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following on the team augmentation, why not train your own experts<\/strong>? Your IT partner has the know-how for technologies that your business relies on<\/strong>. It makes sense to have them train your own team, at least for the routine operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That way, you remain in control of your infrastructure<\/strong>, and you still can get advanced support from your partner when you need it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Technical training is a great way to motivate and retain your own team<\/strong>, as they feel valued and see their skills improve. It can also give them new insights and ideas on how to apply their knowledge to other parts of your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Knowledge transfer brings a positive impact all over the board.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So there you have it. Is IT Outsourcing<\/strong> a good match for your\u00a0 business? Chances are, it is.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why not have a call and find out?<\/p>\n\n\nReason 1: avoid the cost of hiring staff.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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