Companies can halve their IT costs by outsourcing the
management of their IT infrastructure to India, according to a
research paper by Deutsche Bank.
The investment bank predicted that infrastructure management
services will be the next growth area in offshore
outsourcing.
"Outsourcing helps reduce overall infrastructure management costs
by centralising IT delivery activities, eliminating the duplication
of roles and through standardisation," said Deutsche Bank, in a
paper entitled Infrastructure Management, Next Growth
Opportunity.
It added that the trend for IT infrastructure to be managed
remotely by suppliers, over the internet or other networks, offered
further potential for cost savings.
"Remote infrastructure management helps companies further increase
cost savings by sending many of these jobs offshore. Almost 80% of
the work can be done remotely from offshore locations," the paper
said.