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Strategic Outsourcing

As today's business environment becomes more complex and competitive, companies must hone in on their strategic destination. This poses many challenges to in-house IT staff, who must respond quickly to ever-changing demands. To stay competitive, companies are faced with the exhorbitant cost of training staff, acquiring software and upgrading hardware. But strategic outsourcing offers companies a better alternative.

Strategic outsourcing involves using internal and external resources to meet strategic business objectives. As such, the IT department serves as a broker of internal and external IT services. The new IT department needs to be flexible, business-oriented and capable of quickly addressing business needs. This involves:

Understanding business strategies and how it is related to IT
Defining the IT architecture
Managing their customer relationships and strategic IT initiatives

These new initiatives, in addition to daily operational responsibilities, create needs that exceed what an in-house IT staff may be able to address. Beyond having the right technical skills, IT departments also need a competitive edge through their intellectual capital, which can include domain knowledge, software, methodologies, tools, and strategic business relationships.

Teaming Up for Success

DataHouse is a proven source of IT resources that can assist an organization in meeting its business objectives. Our approach to strategic sourcing is to establish a trusted partnership relationship with our clients. Our goal is to establish and maintain long-term relationships by delivering and continuously adding value to the relationship through our skills, solutions and business relationships. Benefits for the customer include:

Working with a talented and trustworthy staff
Receiving favorable fees
Collaborating with professionals who have your business objectives in mind

Outsourcing Services

Application Outsourcing

Application outsourcing is becoming a common strategic outsourcing practice. The entire management of an application system can be outsourced to allow the internal IT staff to focus on their new role as brokers of IT services. Application management services include:

Application planning and budgeting
User requirements analysis and design
Software development, modifications and applying new releases/patches
Change and configuration management of application systems
System and user documentation
Testing and quality assurance of application systems

DataHouse has extensive experience in developing and maintaining application systems on mainframe, mid range, client server, and Web platforms. Based on the needs of the organization, we can define services levels for a monthly fee to manage all aspects of the application over a multiyear period.

Learn more about Application Development Services.

Quality Assurance and Testing Outsourcing

Testing an application system or Web site's capability and stability is a critical function and businesses are becoming highly dependant on their information technology. However essential, many businesses and organizations are not staffed or equipped to execute specialized testing. Our testing and quality assurance services include proven methodology, templates, testing tools, and highly skilled staff that can ensure that testing is done right on a cost effective basis.

Testing and quality assurance services include:

Functional testing of user interface, processing and configuration
Regression testing
Installation testing
Performance and stress testing
Business Cycle testing
Documentation review

Learn more about our Quality Assurance and Testing Services.

Solutions as Unique as Your Business

With our experience, breadth of skills and range of services, we are able to bring you solutions that are unique to what you do. To learn more about how your business can grow through strategic outsourcing, please contact us.

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