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Encharter Insurance, headquartered in Lexington, Mass., prides itself on its hometown appeal. It’s that neighborhood feel that has contributed to its rapid growth, doubling in size in the last few years to 55 employees and about $8 million in revenue.
But while business boomed, like many small companies, Encharter paid little attention to developing an IT strategy to support expanding technology demands.
“I came into this job and found that there was no IT department,” says Michael Sher, who was named president and CEO of the group of seven insurance agencies spread across Massachusetts and Connecticut last year.
As a result he started looking for outside help, a somewhat maverick decision for the head of a small company. For the most part, small and midsize businesses remain reluctant to hand over IT functions to outsourcers, in large part because of a lack of familiarity with the idea of outsourcing, as well as a fear of losing control.
In addition, while some smaller outsourcing vendors such as CenterBeam and Everdream have built their businesses by focusing on SMBs, big name providers such as EDS and IBM have yet to carve out a niche in the low end of the market, creating a supply side issue that is holding back more widespread demand, analysts say.
Gartner estimates that about 90% of all new business created in the U.S. is small or midsize. It’s a huge opportunity for outsourcers as these small firms begin to recognize that they can achieve the same kind of benefits that large organizations enjoy when handing over non-core IT functions to outside service providers.
“There is a small but growing legion of SMBs that are considering outsourcing,” says Robert Brown, a research director at Gartner.
Brown notes that the base is small. Companies with between 100 and 499 employees, for example, account for just 7.8% of the $50.5 billion business process outsourcing market today, but that number is expected to grow to over 8% of a $78.8 billion market by 2009, according to Gartner.
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