It sounds like magic: Send your back office chores away at night and find the finished work waiting with your e-mail in the morning. Believe it or not, some companies are doing it: e-mailing tasks to accounting and programming personnel in India, where the workday begins just as Americans head home. There, Indian professionals process the files and transmit the results electronically before dawn breaks in America.

One of our clients, a Retirement Plan Company based in Nashville, Tennessee realized that its city was not blessed with surplus of under-employed math whizzes. It found number crunchers in India and at a bargain price. Now, 7 years later, the Retirement Plan Company is enjoying the benefits of having creatively solved its staffing needs by Outsourcing its Retirement Plan Management, Daily Valuation and other related services to SSI.