Jeremy Callais Chief Operating Officer and Cashier M C Bank & Trust Co. Morgan City, La. $255.3 million-assets There’s more! And more answers from other bankers! To read the rest of this answer, and many other bankers’ answers, please click here to register or to log in

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The Headache:

Outsourcing IT

The ABA/ABA Banking Journal Community Bank Competitiveness Survey: 2008 edition found that 36.6% of community banks outsource some functions traditionally performed by staff.

Among the functions outsourced were several deal with information technology: item processing, 44.8% outsource; IT management, 24.9% outsource; and remote deposit capture, 48.4% outsource some elements. Recently, a banker who was reviewing the survey sent us these questions as a result:

“My bank is looking at outsourcing our IT functions. Is anyone out there doing it currently? How did you go about it? And to whom did you outsource things?”

Remedy 1
Jeremy Callais, chief operating officer and cashier, M C Bank & Trust Co., Morgan City, La., $255.3 million-assets.

There are many things to consider when looking into outsourcing IT functions. Although we do not outsource our entire IT function, we do have an IT consultant whom we bring in for large projects, such as server upgrades, router work, and firewall programming.

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