Outsourced IT department, why will it pay off in your company?

An outsourced IT department is a modern approach to software support within a company. Instead of time-consuming recruitment, job creation and hiring staff, companies can use an external team as a service. Whenever they need it and as much as they need it.

Check out 7 reasons why an outsourced IT department is a good and modern solution for your business.

Savings

Creating an independent software development team is a significant cost, which includes:

• Recruitment process
• Employee induction
• Workplace preparation
• Salary
• Contract costs/taxes
• Benefits (e.g. private insurance, multisport)
• Cost of providing replacement in case of holidays or illness

Not only are these very large expenses for the company, but what's worse, some of them are fixed costs. You have to pay an employee's salary, whether the employee has something to work on or not.

An outsourced IT department completely changes this model. You only pay for the hours worked. If there is less or no work to be done, you don't pay for idle time.

The cost of the work done is the only cost you incur. You don't have to worry about recruitment, setting up a workplace, purchasing hardware or software, inducting an employee or replacing an employee on holiday. This is all our responsibility.

Each client has access to the history of hours used. You can keep track of expenses and plan future work.

Security

When it comes to technology businesses, two key elements are: business continuity and developers' response time. One bug that is not fixed quickly can cost a company a lot.

An outsourced IT department offers short response times because we have an entire team available to us. In the event of emergencies or critical situations, we are able to respond almost immediately. Even if the person who is dedicated to your project is not available at the moment.

When you hire a single programmer, you are reliant on his availability. Quite a risk, right? Of course, you can hire more than one person, but with the current rates on the IT market, this is a really big and fixed cost.

Control

Being a non-technical or technical person, but having other responsibilities, controlling the working time and code quality of programmers is very difficult. If you do not want to end up with an application that has to be rewritten from scratch after a while due to a so-called technology debt, you need to control the programmers. Not only when it comes to code quality (code review) or good project management, but also the time it takes to create individual features. Software development that is too slow will affect its quality and inflate the company's expenses.

The service of an outsourced IT department provides you not only with access to programmers, but also to project managers, graphic designers, testers or a CTO who controls both the programmers and the work on the project.

Availability

Programmers - like all other people - get sick, go on leave (often unexpectedly) and change jobs. Unless you employ several people, the unavailability of a programmer for several days can cause many problems. It may also happen that one person takes care of everything or key issues. In a situation where this person is missing from your company, you as a CEO will be left alone with a huge problem.

An outsourced department solves this problem. In the event of the absence of a programmer who is assigned to your project, we provide another person for the time of absence. Additionally, besides the programmer, a manager who is assigned to your company always has access to full information about the project.

Comprehensiveness

Technology companies need comprehensive services, not just programming. Graphic designer, analyst, server administrator or UI/UX specialist? By using an outsourced IT department, you don't have to worry about the lack of competence within your team. You can consult different specialists as and when you need them. Nobody will require you to know how to choose a good administrator or what to pay attention to when designing the programme interface. We will take care of it, and you can focus on developing your company.

Flexibility

One of the biggest advantages of an outsourced IT department is flexibility. If you have small needs, you use our services to a small extent. You only pay for the hours used, not the programmer's entire salary. However, if you have needs that exceed your full-time hours, you can rely on a second person during peak periods. This is ideal for companies that have seasonal increases and decreases in workload.

Support

We know how important it is to support people who feel less confident in new technologies than we do.

To meet these problems, we offer our customers:

• Audit of security, code quality and work progress.
• Consultation in the choice of technology and development of solutions. We listen, advise and share our experiences. Both in terms of technical aspects as well as experience in developing digital products.
• We also offer the opportunity to participate in meetings with your clients as the so-called CTO, that is the person responsible for technology in your company.

As you can see for yourself, Dear Entrepreneur, modern service from an outsourced software development department can be a great solution for your business. Of course, this service will not be for everyone. You know your company best and you certainly know which way will be best for it. The above article aims to show the advantages of a modern approach to establishing an IT department in your company.