According to the consulting firm that the North Carolina hired, that if the North Carolina will outsource it will cut the $76 million of its operating expenses for over five years. The outsourcing of the state’s operation and maintenance in the field of its technology infrastructure to the contractors and in developing other services under the management of centralisation will save them a lot of money. According to the study that has done by TPI, by outsourcing North Carolina could save $37.2 million of the mainframe operations expenses together with the hardware, software, support, and disaster recovery costs and also by outsourcing Wide Area Network services, including network monitoring, management, and provisioning, TPI concluded almost $6.2 million could be cut on their operating expenses.
According to the findings of the consulting firm, the state of North Carolina would save $8.9 million within five years by stabilizing Information Technology service desks which has the ability to maintain four different state agencies into the central Office of Information Technology Services.
The firm said that centralising servers from five agencies into OITS could save the north Carolina almost $23.8 million. According to the reports done by InformationWeek, Bev Perdue, North Carolina governor, he ordered last year a review of all IT operations, with a concept of reducing millions of dollars from the cash-strapped state’s technology budget and which has the ability to boost the efficiency of services to the employees and residents of North Carolina. North Carolina’s shortage is about more than $3 billion for the current year, one of the highest in the nation. It is true that the outsourcing could be the best way to save more money because it is very cost effective.
According to the study that has done by the TPI, a unit of Information Services Group, which has given its study to state officials on March 30. It stated that North Carolina’s IT operations could benefit from the improvement and the use of outsourcing to the private contractors for a number of outsourcing services.
Outsourcing itself helps the company or industry to improve and develop until it becomes a successful one. It is the best strategy that a company must possess.
