green datacenters<\/a>to underpin their Cloud delivery, which have much lower running costs. Hence, going Green with service delivery should not be an added cost-burden to outsourcing service providers \u2013 it will provide a cost-advantage.<\/p>\nCloud is by no means a silver bullet to alleviate the challenges of all organizations, but it does represent a weapon that can be quickly added to the mix of the arsenal for many. Large enterprises may have sufficient resources internally to accommodate routine business requirements. But should a need arise to quickly ramp up a business unit or product line; cloud becomes a valuable arrow to have in the quiver to quickly enable agility. For companies of any size that have a seasonal business or product lines, having this capability is very valuable to accommodate peak demand periods without having in-house servers sitting idle at other times. Touch-wood we'll start emerging from this economic slump in the coming months ahead, and companies need to be ready to scale-up their support infrastructures in a smart fashion to respond.<\/p>\n
Not unlike SaaS, cloud has produced niche providers that specialize in empowering their clients to take advantage of the new environment. For example, application development has seen the emergence of providers offering a myriad of tools for developers to work within the cloud environment. By utilizing cloud, developers are able to tremendously reduce the time of server configuration and reduce the internal disruption throughout the R and D process all the way through to the proof of concept.<\/p>\n
Increasingly, on into the future, buyers will reap the benefits as more major providers enter the market. Many established providers with robust infrastructure, skilled staff and a legacy of delivering high quality service are finding their traditional markets saturated with competition. Cloud provides a logical emerging market that offers opportunities for growing their business. The scramble to offer more benefits at a lower price could well rival the marketing wars we see today in the automotive industry. This can only result in brighter prospects for organizations seeking cloud cover in an economic storm.<\/p>\n
Outsourcing for the sake of cheap labor will generate some savings in the short-term, but these costs will quickly spring back if you don't follow-through with improved processes and technology that allow for a global operating model. Simply shipping out your mess for less <\/em>is never going to make much of a difference to your bottom-line, and will often end up costing you more in the long-haul. Bottom-line, when you move into a global outsourcing model, you have to transform the way your business deploys its technology platforms and business processes if you are to generate real cost-efficiencies. Embracing the new developments in SaaS and Cloud are sure ways to make an outsourcing experience work on a continual basis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What I detest most about recessions is when firms put all their focus on short-term cost-reduction measures and take their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,51,81,91],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"\n
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