Today’s strong and continuing trend among businesses towards outsourcing is driven by the need to reduce costs, achieve better cost visibility, and shift the nature of those costs from fixed to variable. Businesses need to find safe, secure and cost-effective ways of supporting their day-to-day operations, development and growth.
This has led to a growing desire to engage the in-depth expertise of companies such as Atos Origin to help enterprises manage the increasingly complex challenge of running their IT infrastructure and transforming their operational processes through Outsourcing.
Successful outsourcing requires a partnership approach from both the service recipient and the service providers in all the phases of the outsourcing arrangement. This enables the service provider to create the trust required to gain an in-depth understanding of the business processes necessary to provide the required service flexibility and innovation while at the same time being able to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Atos Origin’s approach is to provide a structured approach to successfully implementing outsourcing relationships - the outsourcing lifecycle. This is a predefined process that supports the exploration and implementation of an outsourcing relationship and contains four phases:
- Preparation Phase
- Contracting Phase
- Transition Phase
- Execution Phase
The Atos Origin Outsourcing lifecycle approach meets today’s business requirements and supports and enhances a company’s extended enterprise, providing a vital edge in today’s highly competitive global market.
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