Business process outsourcing(BPO) provides a flexible range of services and options for redesigning, managing and operating specific business functions. Traditionally seen as a way to reduce labor cost by moving IT operations to lower cost markets, contemporary BPO sources best-fit infrastructure and skills from around the world to design, build and run processes that optimize the strategic outcomes an enterprise seeks for its clients.

BPO services support processes across the enterprise including finance and accounting, procurement and sourcing, and talent and transformation — all to help you continuously evolve and efficiently optimize the way your business runs. The best BPO providers supply many predefined services and capabilities that already exist in these domains. They can be augmented with expertise in strategy, automation, change management, process and user experience design, legacy systems integration, data and analytics, cloud, technology support services, security and more.

There is an unprecedented opportunity today to digitally reinvent processes using the data, technology and skills that are now available. Organizations can modernize their operations to be more agile and intelligent. Business process outsourcing can enable ongoing innovation that delivers continuous value through better ways of working — helping to improve your organization’s ability to serve customers and compete more effectively.

Intelligent workflows change how work gets done by applying real-time insights, automation, AI, blockchain and other exponential technologies to reinvent processes and deliver business outcomes. Businesses move from siloed, static functions to integrated agile workflows by unifying people, data and technology. Standardized tasks are automated. Experienced workers augment their skills with insights provisioned in real time from across the enterprise. This is accomplished using business process platforms that integrate domain expertise, data, digital workers and AI applications on an open, hybrid cloud infrastructure.