If you are looking to save money, need additional skills to those of your team, want to reduce your fixed cost, want to outsource to an expert supplier so your team can concentrate on business-critical operations, then you should consider outsourcing your IT department!

Outsourcing is contracting tasks to an outside company. IT outsourcing might typically include the outsourcing of: workstation and server maintenance, network security, virus protection, data backups and disaster recovery.

A recent study by sourcing advisory group TPI reveals that the investment in outsourced IT services is growing. The retail, manufacturing, media and telecoms sectors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) spent more money on outsourcing during the first nine months of 2011 than in the whole of 2010.

The manufacturing sector spent €5.8bn in the first three quarters of 2011, compared with €5.6bn in all of 2010.The retail industry’s investment in outsourced IT for the same period in 2011 reached €1.4bn compared with €0.8bn in 2010. The telecoms sector spent over €4bn for the first 9 months of 2011 compared with €2.8bn in the full 12 months of 2010.

Martyn Hart, chairman of the National Outsourcing Association commented: “Outsourcing in the Emea retail sector has risen 600% on last quarter, and 75% year-on-year.This is due to major retail players seeking competitive advantage by adopting high-tech IT solutions and infrastructure upgrades. They are turning to outsourcing providers as a low-risk route to superior technology.”

So what are the reasons for outsourcing your IT? Consider the following:

Outsourcing reduces capital and operating costs.

It saves time and provides relief from the administrative tasks involved in employee-related responsibilities. The company can then focus on growth strategies.

The latest Information Technology news being announced daily, keeping up to date with the constantly evolving world of IT can be extremely hard.

In 95% of cases proactive IT support service is better than having internal IT team.

Even companies which have internal IT provision often need some extra assistance.

IT requires a vast range of skills and internal IT people may not possess all the necessary skills.

Internal IT team may simply not have enough time to implement a new project.

Outsourcing IT support services means that the company can concentrate on its core business.

If you’re looking for Outsourced IT Services there are many companies that can help you to reduce costs and risks while providing a more flexible scalable IT support service.