Few companies can do it all alone. In fact, in today’s world, more and more leading enterprises depend on cultivating strong partnerships with other providers, vendors, suppliers and customers. As a result, outsourcing has become a big trend — particularly as companies increasingly see the benefits of outsourcing functions where they lack the knowledge internally. With the rapid pace of change in the technology industry, companies are often hard pressed to keep up with the latest innovations, regulations, security and competitive threats.

Just for background, the outsourcing trend began in the late 1980s — particularly as companies began to move away from the trend to “own, manage, and control” all their assets.  By the 1990s, companies saw outsourcing as a way to focus on cost-savings and maintain a strong focus on their core business.  Today, using managed service providers (MSPs) has become a vital and strategic business model and can provide your company with these  advantages to name a few:

• Helps reduce and control operating costs
• Improves your company’s focus and lets your staff focus on the ‘core’ business
• Provides access to world-class technology capabilities
• Frees internal resources for other purposes
• Helps you meet the need for resources internally
• Allows you to grow strategically
• Enables your company to be more nimble and flexible on addressing market opportunities — allows scalability
• Enhances security and growth

As one of the leading managed IT services companies, ICE Consulting has a unique perspective on the advantages outsourcing provides. Here are three advantages we think worth considering.

You Need the Ability to Quickly ‘Scale’ Your Business to Meet Demands and/or Competitive Threats

We live in a day and age of fierce IT innovation — technology has changed the way we live, work, and even play. Let’s face it, how many of us can even keep up with all the innovations with our new Apple Phone or Amazon’s Alexa?   Many of the same solutions that used to be considered ‘cutting-edge’ just a few years ago are now obsolete and unable to cope with the demands of today’s modern business. Consider cloud computing, the pervasiveness of mobile, apps everywhere, social devices and more. IT outsourcing has allowed forward-thinking companies to not only keep up with the latest trends and technologies, but also influence current solutions. Perhaps most important, outsourcing allows companies like yours to focus on your core business processes — whether you’re a biotech or life sciences company or a fast-growing startup.

You Want to Grow — But Grow ‘Strategically’

AAs a company grows from a few dozen to a few hundred employees with multiple locations, the demands on IT personnel increase dramatically. And keeping abreast of the latest technologies and systems can really make a difference on the success you achieve with business goals and maximizing efficiency. It always requires dedicated IT resources. This is the fundamental reason outsourcing and/or supplementing IT operations through MSPs has become a growing and important business model.

With a team of more than 75 people across the world including more than 50 certified technical professionals and engineers, ICE Consulting is available for you 24 /7 reinforcing and expanding your technical capabilities. In the case of larger IT projects, office moves, or cloud migrations, ICE can step in and allow your internal IT team to focus on their daily duties to drive business growth and increase revenue.

Without Security, There is NO Growth

Whether large or small, every company and business transaction depends on IT to grow, keep pace with competition and stay ahead of potential security threats. IT infrastructure and integrity affect every department and level of an organization, from C-suite executives and managers to sales and customer service representatives working directly with customers. To keep your business running, you cannot afford any downtime or malicious cyberattacks. MSPs are not only used for managing, monitoring and building IT infrastructures, but they have now become a necessity! ICE protects your internal IT team from bugs, and protects your company on the outside from intruders and viruses. Having double security from the ‘inside and the outside’ of your network is your best line of defense in these “cyber-scary” times.

Call us today to find out how ICE Consulting can help with your IT needs.