According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, while the pace of the economic downturn is easing, Britain's economy is continuing to shrink, contracting by 0.8% between April and June, more than double the figure economists had expected. The latest figures take the annual rate of decline to 5.6%, the biggest fall since records began in 1955.

As profit margins become increasingly squeezed in the current economic climate, one way businesses can both cut their costs and maintain their profitability is to outsource their technical, non-customer-facing projects to a specialist provider.

Outsourcing enables you to lower your overheads, improve your project turnaround times and free up your internal resources to focus on core operations.

You can find out more about outsourcing here.