This is a common protest when we suggest a company hire us, and it's an understandable reaction. Information Technology departments are a significant investment, and it is sometimes difficult to understand why you might need us as well.

Here are some things you might want to consider if you're asking the same question.

1. Most IT departments are already overworked, and if a section or department of a company needs a special project, it's another burden on this overloaded staff. Special projects, if and when they get priority, frequently don't receive the attention they need to be fully successful.
   
   
2. A typical IT department is very good at what they do, which usually includes such tasks as hardware requisitions, inventory, and management; network setup, installation, security, and administration; internet connectivity; and sometimes even managing the company's website. However, the staff of the typical IT department usually does not have the specialized skills essential to application development. These skills include functional systems analysis, interaction design, relational database design, theory, data warehousing, client-server architecture, multi-tier application structure, and distributed data synchronization. Business Automation Solutions can provide these skills as needed.
   
   
3. We can provide solutions while alleviating your IT department's workload. Business Automation Solutions will provide a fully-functional operating application, install it with your IT department, teach the users how to work it, and provide the IT department with a simple maintenance manual to keep the application tuned and running. The result is we allow the IT department to do what they do best, while providing the automation solutions to those who need it.

Typically, when we are invited in to a company that already has an IT department, the IT folks are not usually glad to see us, at least at first, because they are protective of their "turf" and they don't want to be seen as unable to handle anything to do with computers. But after the project is under way, the IT people come to realize our work will enhance their stature and responsibility, while alleviating some of their burden. By the time we are finished, we are usually best friends.