Top 5 reasons, Why Outsource?

Top 5 reasons, Why Outsource?

1. Significant cost advantages :Undoubtedly, this is one of the key reasons for you to even consider outsourcing. Outsourcing arrangements enable you to reduce fixed costs and leverage the scalability of the service providers. A study by Bersin Associates: What Works, estimates savings between 20-40% by outsourcing to India. It could be even more in some cases. Whether you are a corporate or a training company, you could gain from outsourcing (parts or full) projects to India. Of course you would need to choose a good vendor. 2. Scalability without headaches :Outsourcing could help your team to be scalable – on demand. You could engage a team of 5 or 50 or 500 depending on your needs without having to worry about hiring, retention, firing etc. The vendor would manage everything including their training and providing replacement resources. This is hugely important for smaller companies given the kind of business environment we find ourselves in. It also helps in starting projects quickly, ramping up the team much faster, sometimes even putting the project on hold without much additional costs. 3. Better quality through innovation: Your vendor is better placed to deliver better quality – assuming you selected a good vendor to start with – on a consistent basis. This is a natural outcome of the continuous improvement that happens as your vendor’s team handles more projects of different kinds for diverse clients. That experience helps them anticipate problems in advance, troubleshoot better when needed, and also propose value added inputs based on their previous experiences. Chances are you can rely on your vendor (much more than you can on your internal team) to be ready with cutting-edge solutions. 4. More reliability on project completion :Often the company that you outsource to does specialize some domain as its core business. Consequently, all its processes and systems are specifically defined and well geared up to deliver specialized products / projects. There is almost no chance of those resources being diverted to some other ‘more important’ tasks. That’s common when working with internal project teams. This reliability could mean a lot for certain critical training programs. 5. Focus on Core-Strategic Goals :Outsourcing helps bring greater focus to the core or strategic tasks of your training function – without sacrificing quality or service. You would better spend your energies on planning for future about how the organization and its business is changing, what skills are required now (& in future), and how best to make those skills available; evaluating success of training programs mapping them against business results, improving the whole training and development function to align it with business needs; and implementing organization cultural change plans to get it ready for the coming decade. These are tasks which only you can perform.

Website Revamp and Redesign

Is your current website incapable of fulfilling all your online marketing objectives?
Whether it is added functionality, updated content, or a more sophisticated, elegant look and feel that you intend to add to your website in order to enhance your online image, you require website redesign services.

If you are looking for a complete overhaul of your website, remember that your visitors need a look, as well as a message, that is persuasive. By implementing this strategic website design, eventually the site’s new look will generate more leads than your current website.

It’s common knowledge that in today’s climate it is not enough to merely has a website; marketing pundits agree that websites should be refined and improved on a regular basis in order to capture the visitor’s attention. Moreover, the updated information should engage the visitors consistently. Otherwise, they may be inclined to leave your website and land on the site of one of your competitors.

At iBtions Infologies, our outstanding creative design team offers website redesign services that improve the;

1.   Graphic look,
2.   Usability,
3.    Overall credibility of your existing online presence.
4.    Navigation

Modern, user-friendly and professional – all websites we design face a strict adherence to these standards.
Many times the content on your website is great. However, what it lacks often is the impact of a professionally designed website.

Do you know that a recent Gartner Group study found 50% of web sales to be simply lost? The reason?

Either the visitors cannot easily find the content, products, or services they’re looking for, or they simply cannot be converted to leads or sales. As a result, 75%+ of website traffic are wasted due to lack of “sales-ability.”
Top 10 questions to ask yourself if a website redesign is needed for your website:
If you are among those investing your precious marketing dollars in website development only to find that your site is not optimized to generate high conversion rates, our website redesign services at iBtions Infologies are the solution you need to increase your profits and deliver a clear message.
1     Why do visitors currently come to my website?
2     Is my website easy to navigate and is it easy to find information?
3     Are my current website visitors being converted into sales?
4     Are competitors’ websites more functional and have they recently been redesigned?
5     Does the content on my website deliver the right message?
6     Is my website a good representation of my business?
7     Does my current website instill trust and confidence in my business or brand?
8     Am I easily able to update my website?
9     Are visitors who come to my website being tracked and analyzed?
10     Does my existing website make it easy for website visitors to contact me?

Contact @ iBtions Infologies our website redesign services:

1. Complete website redesign services, along with maintenance and updates for your website throughout the year
2.  Search engine optimization and content analysis
3.  Optional website redesign at the time of annual renewal
4.  Conversion and usability analysis of existing website and redesigned website

Releasing iBiFramework 1.0

We have built our own Business Framework or Business Library. This framework includes over 8500 lines of ready made code that can be quickly used.

iBiFramework includes as many as 12 class files that contains helpers and components for quickly solving common programming tasks.

Major potential areas covered are as follows:

1. Business Utilities
2. Database Manager and Utility
   
3. Email Functions
   
4. Encryption
5. Exception Thrower
6. Input Output
7. Error Logging
8. Math Utilities
9. String Handlers
10. Validations
11. Password Generation
12. Import or Bulk Copy , Export Functions
13. Date Time Functions
    

Do let me know any other onset or offset areas, so that we keep on improvising and optimizing our Business Framework.

Indo Vs Pak – Match at Mohali

Good News, All the cricket lovers will be enjoying India vs Pakistan match, and our CEO have announced this Wednesday 30th, March 2011 a Half Day.

Dear Colleagues, do report to work early, wind up your tasks and leave home early (2:30) to enjoy the much awaited match.

Enjoy the absolute fireworks!
iBtions Team

Enterprise Cloud Computing

What is cloud computing? Everyone in the technology world is talking about it… and a lot of people in the business world are asking the same question, “What is cloud computing, and what does it mean for my business?”

As a metaphor for the Internet, “the cloud” is a familiar cliché, but when combined with “computing,” the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier.

Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT’s existing capabilities.

A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic — a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider (the consumer needs nothing but a personal computer and Internet access). Significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing.

A cloud can be private or public. A public cloud sells services to anyone on the Internet. (Currently, Amazon Web Services is the largest public cloud provider.) A private cloud is a proprietary network or a data center that supplies hosted services to a limited number of people. When a service provider uses public cloud resources to create their private cloud, the result is called a virtual private cloud. Private or public, the goal of cloud computing is to provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service like Amazon Web Services provides virtual server instance (API) to start, stop, access and configure their virtual servers and storage. In the enterprise, cloud computing allows a company to pay for only as much capacity as is needed, and bring more online as soon as required. Because this pay-for-what-you-use model resembles the way electricity, fuel and water are consumed, it’s sometimes referred to as utility computing.

Platform-as-a-service in the cloud is defined as a set of software and product development tools hosted on the provider’s infrastructure. Developers create applications on the provider’s platform over the Internet. PaaS providers may use APIs, website portals or gateway software installed on the customer’s computer. Force.com, (an outgrowth of Salesforce.com) and GoogleApps are examples of PaaS. Developers need to know that currently, there are not standards for interoperability or data portability in the cloud. Some providers will not allow software created by their customers to be moved off the provider’s platform.

In the software-as-a-service cloud model, the vendor supplies the hardware infrastructure, the software product and interacts with the user through a front-end portal. SaaS is a very broad market. Services can be anything from Web-based email to inventory control and database processing. Because the service provider hosts both the application and the data, the end user is free to use the service from anywhere.

No wonder so many CIOs are restructuring their companies around a cloud computing infrastructure.

Not to mention, by eliminating the problems of traditional application development, cloud computing technology frees you to focus on developing business applications that deliver true value to your business (or your customers). The Force.com platform lets IT innovate while avoiding the costs and headaches associated with servers, individual software solutions, middleware or point-to-point connections, upgrades—and the staff needed to manage it all.

Revolutionary WWW

I am occasionally asked about the future of website and web development.

Not only am I too shy to possibly answer such an audacious question, I’m not the right person to answer it.

When you’re in the trenches of web development, you hardly have a lot of time to squint into the future and predict where it is all going. Web development firms are quite reactionary, and we follow where the web (and to some extent, clients) is going.

No doubt 3D, smell-a-vision and faster websites will be all the rage in the future, as will mobile, Web 3.0 and the Symantec web. But who am I to know?!

There is a pretty good post at Mashable on the next 12 months of web development. The article takes a high and broad look at the trends likely to emerge and grow in 2011.

I agree with most of it:)