Companies world wide are increasingly faced with mundane task of data Entry, essential for critical business operations yet time consuming and resource intensive. Outsourcing this operation in such a scenario is proving to be a beneficial option, as companies leverage the cost arbitrage and save valuable money, improving profitability and revenues.

The growth of the internet and its applicability for cross border services coincides well with the growth in demand for data entry. Being a service that can be performed remotely, companies are increasingly resorting to online data entry, wherein most transactions and services are rendered online through the internet. Leveraging benefits of skilled labor, lower costs and a disposable manpower companies are increasingly outsourcing online data entry to third party providers who vouch for quality and ensure high speed turnover.

Some of the various online data entry services outsourced includes:

Data Entry for e-books and catalogs
Content compilation from websites
Form completion, processing and submission
Data Collection
Image and PDF to word conversion
Data entry for mailing lists
Data entry from business cards and books

These are but a few of the popularly outsourced data entry services. The complete list however is extensive and varies based on companies and their requirements.

While the primary benefit associated with online data entry is cost, some of the other benefits leveraged include:

Prevents maintenance of a dedicated work force.
Delegates responsibility to third parties.
High quality of services.
Rapid turnaround times.
Enables companies to focus on core business rather than on mundane services.

With an increasingly skilled and professional workforce, driven by the benefits stated above, India is fast growing to be the hub for online data entry services. With companies, well versed in rendering these services and having the expertise and scale to mange these voluminous tasks and an increasingly large English speaking workforce, online data entry as an outsourced service is here to stay in the years to come.