Home-sourcing, Crowd-sourcing, or just Partnering: Outsourcing Can Increase Efficiency and Improve Profitability

Home-sourcing, Crowd-sourcing, or just Partnering: Outsourcing Can Increase Efficiency and Improve Profitability

out·source (outsôrs, -srs) tr.v. out·sourced, out·sourc·ing, out·sourc·ers. To send out (work, for example) to an outside provider.

Outsourcing certain non-core business functions has become recognized as one approach to improving business process efficiency in terms of cost and personnel productivity. Through outsourcing non-core business processes, many organizations find that they are able to focus their energies, and their financial resources, on building the business rather than facilitating internal business processes. Perhaps outsourcing can provide a similar benefit to your practice – outsourcing IT operations and/or outsourcing mechanical bookkeeping and similar work.

Enabling technologies keep it all under control.

Enabling technologies and services, such as online application services and application hosting from InsynQ, help businesses work closer together in strictly controlled, secure environments. When your outsource partners and providers utilize the same platform that you do, it helps to ensure that client data is secure and well-managed, and keeps all applications and data available to the accountant and client business at all times.

Similar in nature to the information technology outsourcing model, the “e-Accounting” outsource model was created to deliver significant value to the professional accountant, or top-level provider. Understanding that the value of the business relationship is held by this trusted advisor, all supporting services must first deliver value to the accountant.

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Authorized QuickBooks Host Delivers from US and Canada

Authorized QuickBooks Host Delivers from US and Canada

InsynQ expands authorized hosting service to Canada; delivers cloud based solutions for businesses in Canada with new datacenter.

It seems that the Canadian market is quite cautious about using cloud computing services, with fears of poor security and the legality of storing personal information on servers “somewhere out there”.  For many Canadian and other non-US-based businesses, the Patriot Act has almost become synonymous for “we can’t use the cloud”, and represents a large barrier to using US-based cloud service providers.   Even though Canada has its own Anti-Terrorism Act, enacted after Sept 11, 2001, many Canadian-based businesses still see the US legislation as the primary reason for not working with providers located in the US.   Read more …