Factors of production play an important role in the advancement of a business. The strength of a business depends upon its human resource. Human resource is though considered the important key for any business but the technological development has changes the scenario in today’s world.

Today the outsourcing of businesses is becoming very common and preferable by the businessmen. It is done for being cost efficient in proper way. Companies usually incur huge costs in recruiting the staff. Recruitment is a long procedure having being divide in certain steps i.e. short listing of candidates, walk in interviews, selection committee, hiring of employees and at last their training sessions. This long procedure can affect the business in any possible negative way. Time limitation in completing a huge task instantly is the big challenge for a company. The company faces a problem when there is small time limit for completing a big project. The best thing at this stage is to discover a best alternative for performing the required task timely rather than striking head in useless and unreliable procedures. To ask the pet employees to work as part timers can be a solution for the company. And if they agree, there could not be any other best alternative than this. On the contrary; company would have to go for another way if workers disagree.

As there is a trend of online companies who are taking the responsibilities of doing your work as the third party so they are called the managed service providers. Their work is to work with many companies simultaneously and they get profit of it. They charge the companies for the work they do on monthly basis. Their basic work is to get the projects and earn money and profits.

IT related problems and needs that are satisfied by the virtual service providers include the old data storage, maintaining the new data, their strong web presence by maintenance of web sites, building strong customer satisfaction features, logo designing and many more same kind of assistance services.

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 some companies still feel convenient with the traditional methods but a majority of them are increasing their outputs by reducing their costs and managing the work quicker. Consequently it seems very clear that in future not a single company will have its own IT department and they will feel secure and cost efficient in taking the services of the managed service provider.