SMEs urged to embrace hosted IT solutions
Fri, 10 Jul 2009
Hosted IT services can help give small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) more time and money to direct towards their business, it has been claimed.
According to Piers Linney, executive director at Outsourcery, formerly Genesis Communications, SMEs can benefit significantly from removing the need to invest in and maintain their own IT setup.
He commented: "Our customers now are actually embracing this because they realise that, long-term, the return on investment over a period of time – one, two or three years – is far better hosted."
Some firms spend too much time worrying about their documents server, data backup, email, digital assistants and customer relationship management software, when an outsourcer could take care of these issues, he added.
Mr Linney claimed hosted IT can help make immediate savings and can also contribute towards a long-term efficiency and effectiveness, having a positive impact upon the bottom line.
"Your business is about focusing on your business, not IT," he noted.
Ousourcery claims that a £10,000-plus IT investment consisting of hardware, servers, software licences and phone systems is no longer a mandatory requirement for starting a new business.
The recently-rebranded firm says entrepreneurs can make good use of pay technology as they bid to establish new enterprises.
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