1. Reduce overheads, free up resources
  2. Minimize capital expenditure
  3. Eliminate investment in fixed infrastructure
  4. Offload non-core functions
  5. Redirect energy and personnel into the core business
  6. Free your executive team from day-to-day process problems
  7. Focus scarce resources on mission-critical projects
  8. Get access to specialized skills and IT technology certifications
  9. Reduce need for internal commitment of specialists
  10. Save on manpower and training costs
  11. Control operating costs
  12. Improve efficiencies through economies of scale
  13. Improve speed and service
  14. Level out cyclical or seasonal fluctuations
  15. Eliminate peak staffing problems
  16. Provide the best quality services, products and people
  17. Be reliable and innovative
  18. Provide value-added services
  19. Increase customer satisfaction
  20. Establish long-term, strategic relationships with world-class service providers to gain a competitive edge
  21. Enhance tactical and strategic advantages
  22. Focus on strategic thinking, process reengineering and managing trading partner relationships
  23. Benefit from the provider’s expertise in solving problems for a variety of clients with similar requirements
  24. Obtain needed project management and implementation consulting expertise
  25. Acquire access to best practices and proven methodologies
  26. Spread your risks
  27. Avoid the cost of chasing technology
  28. Leverage the provider’s extensive investments in technology, methodologies and people
  29. Reduce the risk of technological obsolescence
  30. Increase efficiency by consolidating and centralizing functions
  31. Keep pace and minimize the impact of rapid changes in technology without changing your infrastructure
  32. Reduce the overall management burden while retaining control of strategic decision making