Outsourcing to Save IT Costs: Interview with: George Bower, President and Chief Executive Officer, Axis Technologies, a solution provider at the marcus evans CIO Summit 2012, discusses the benefits to CIOs of outsourcing features of their enterprise software management.

1. Outsourcing to Save IT Costs
this is leaving little time for To produce these answers, this large
Information Technology (IT) amount of data must be crunched and
innovation and the creation of new ad hoc reporting produced quickly.
solutions. Outsourcing aspects of these Getting the right information a little
management duties by using software beforehand, at the right time, is better
as a service and not hosting the than all the data received after an event
solutions themselves, can reduce IT occurs. Tracking customers’ touch
infrastructure costs and free up time points and how they are engaging with
for new projects. the organization is critical.
If these solutions require deliverables, Also, organizations struggling with data
coding can be done offsite using management should adopt service-
onshore resources, delivered solutions oriented architecture to consolidate
Interview with: George Bower, then installed into the production information flow and eliminate
President and Chief Executive environment. Internal programing redundant processes. The demand for
Officer, Axis Technologies resources and associated costs can be controlling data is reduced as customer
saved in this way. trends are analyzed and customer
satisfaction is enhanced.
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are Since most CIOs have limited resources
currently overwhelmed with project in implementing new technologies, they
demands which tie up most of their time can bring in expertise with new
and budget in managing their current innovative solutions for their
infrastructures, says George Bower, organization. Results can be realized
President and Chief Executive Officer, sooner and the need to hire a new team
Outsourcing
Axis Technologies. Incorporating an of employees and associated overhead
Enterprise Service Bus and enabling can be reduced if desired.
applications to be accessible to anyone
some
requiring rapid access saves time and Why should they incorporate a BPM
money. tool into their business?
management
Also, using onshore resources for some Companies that have many
aspects of their enterprise software organizations with multiple departments
management can reduce costs. Clients need to communicate with one another.
duties,
will not have to host the solution and One of the most effective ways of
the CIO and the rest of the team’s time achieving this is by incorporating a BPM
can be freed for other demands, he tool. BPM tools can automate business
would
goes on to say. processes modelling throughout each
organization with very little back-end
From a solution provider company coding involved.
reduce IT
attending the marcus evans CIO
Summit 2012, in Atlanta, Georgia, How can big data be better
December 3-4, Bower highlights why a managed?
infrastructure
Business Process Modelling (BPM) tool
can help organizations and departments The amount of data is expanding at an
communicate. extreme rate and is growing
costs
exponentially each day. As a result,
What benefits can CIOs gain from consumers require more information on
outsourcing aspects of their the products they want to buy and
enterprise software management? companies need information in near real
time about what they are buying to
Given the fact that CIOs have increasing analyze trends and make intelligent
project demands and limited budgets, decisions.

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About Axis Technologies
Axis Technologies specializes in providing Best-in-Class information technology solutions. Our clients range from the federal
government to small and large Fortune 1000 companies throughout the U.S. and abroad. We provide Enterprise class software
solutions and related services. Areas of expertise include application development, PLM, SOA, Business Intelligence and Cyber
Security Specialists. At Axis Technologies we are dedicated to helping you see the world of IT even better.
www.axistec.com
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