Successful business needs some elements to be in without which a business can’t survive. When you start a business it needs some investment, tools and technology and the major part of the business that is the human resource. It includes all the employees working in different departments of the organization. Human resource is the most important part of every organization. With the passage of time the need of having more human resource is decreasing and this is just because of the reason that we are moving towards the e-business. E-business includes the online work and some organizations prefer to complete their work from some online sources so this has changed the hiring process.

As the businesses are becoming more virtual or online day by day so some employers are also moving towards getting some part of their businesses done from online sources or from the third party. The major reason of doing this thing is to cut the cost in a way that it couldn’t affect the profitability and operations of business. As we all knows very well that companies usually have to invest a huge amount in hiring process. The hiring includes time consuming processes from short listing among the huge number of candidates to their test, interviews, hiring and finally their training. So it wastes lots of time, energies and cost too. The main problem comes when the company gets the big project for once and it has to complete it in a limited time period. At that time companies used to look at the most reliable and cost effective way rather than hiring new people and trained them. The one option that could be taken in this regard is to ask the employees that either they are able to serve the company as part time workers or not. If the workers get agreed to the management’s proposal then it would be the best option for management rather than hiring new staff. But if the workers don’t want to avail that opportunity then the management has to think something different to meet their business requirement.

Managed service providers are very inn now a day in every kind of businesses. Companies need to reduce their burden so they prefer to share some of their work with any other party, called managed service provider. Managed service provider can be in real or virtual form and it used to work with other companies to share their burdens and to get profits in return on monthly basics.

Managed services provider majorly provides IT related services like technical assistance for any business, maintenance of their old data and making their backups, providence of full fledge security protection for their computer systems, designing and maintaining their websites, designing their logos for different products, server management, maintenance of customer's records, who have visited the website and found any query regarding any product, and lots of other IT related assistance.

Having enough expertise in the related area, these service providers are becoming the IT departments of some companies, as this leads the companies to minimize the costs of making its own IT department. Hence companies hired them as their IT department to mange whole IT needs efficiently.

Some positive points of managed services provider make it preferable over the recruitment of new employees. The companies facing the hurdles of money and space shortage problems usually do not want to make separate IT departments and can avail the virtual IT services from the managed services provider. Another advantage is of minimization of cost and saving of enough time to complete the work instead of hiring and training of the work force. Service provider run a whole broader system that can provide the thorough information and guidance related to each and every issue, but the one or two employees cannot manage that alone. A psychological need of managed service provider can provide better results for you i.e. they have to provide best services in order to retain their customers.

Though this is really a good way to reduce your cost and work burden but still there are companies who are not following this strategy because they are not that comfortable or flexible with this. Looking into the benefits this seems to be very successful step for future companies.