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Outsource business

Throughout the history of America business has been using outsourcing to expand their profits and knowledge. Over the years, businesses in America have used outsourcing to overcome the lack of knowledge, skills, and to specialization within the business. The history of outsourcing can be traced to so many different periods history. America greatest historical moments of outsourcing would be the industrial revolution. Outsourcing in foreign countries would be most seen during the industrial revolution because so many businesses that outsourced the next steps in production or in the business expansion. The question one may ask is what exactly is outsourcing? What is the purpose of outsourcing? What are the benefits and disadvantages businesses face when they choose to outsource? What are the effects of outsourcing?

Outsourcing is the allocation of business processes to a specialist external service provider. Most business choose to outsourcing their business or company because of some key factors; lack of expert within their country in a specific field. Businesses want cheaper labor with the same quality output. Outsourcing allows companies the ability and possibility to concentrate on other parts of the business that need more attention. The most common parts that  business usually out outsourced are: web design and maintenance, recruitment, IT maintenance, logistics, manufacturing, and technical/customer service. These parts of business are easily outsourced because other major gain on profits and wanting to spread the business and industry.

When a business that chooses to outsource to a foreign county to gain access to a high quality services at a lower operating cost it is called offshore outsourcing. Businesses choose to outsource the company's internal parts, technology, and software is call business process outsourcing (BOP). Businesses that outsource parts of the business that are not vital to the business but have some significant. Businesses that choose to outsource the processes; outsource customer support, payroll to save on the cost of this particular process in the company. A company can also divide its departments into back office and front office outsourcing. Back office is outsourcing internal roles and front office is outsourcing call customer service areas of the business. Today companies that outsource, outsource the technology part of the business generally outsourced to India, China, and Russia. These countries are the leaders in the software business.