As cloud computing surges into the mainstream of business-technology strategies and deployments, plenty of questions are still swirling around regarding security, time to value, public versus private, lock-in, cost, and more.
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Add to this the realities of changing regulations and potential environmental tracking requirements, and you need information systems that provide the flexibility to evolve, deliver fast time to value, and that can integrate with our suppliers and customers.
We are witnessing a major shift in customer buying behavior and needs: from the Time Value of Money to the Money Value of Time.
Great swathes of farmland in northern China devoted to growing wheat will over time shift to high-value crops, such as vegetables and fruit.
The reason why smartphones are subsidized by carriers in return for long-term contracts is that smartphone users are widely recognized as heavy data users and bring a higher life-time value to carriers.
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Why not give them a way to connect with their groups inside and outside of work to make all of their life easier to manage, leaving more time to focus on value-added tasks at work.
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If the company is able to do that, Lostritto continued, then the stock will, with time, return to fundamental value.
All we can do is change the form of the price, from money value to the value of time.
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The painter's commercial value, which is infinite, took a long time to catch up with the value placed on him by those who understood him.
So whilst click-through rates on emails and website hits are both free to measure and very seductive, it takes time and money to measure the value of your brand (many big PLCs value these on their balance sheet as goodwill running into several hundred million).
So the Turner cable systems were able to add value to Warner and Time content, and Warner and Time distribution platforms could enhance Turner content.
But, unlike any stocks trading in New York, the Merval surpassed its initial gains to reach its all time maximum value, having gone up 36.6% to 3001.52.
Wellman and his partners will have a decision to make: sell the filly at a time when her value is guaranteed to be high, or continue to race her.
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We respect their decision to leave, we value the time they will contribute to ensuring an orderly transition, and we will miss them greatly.
Using options allows one to enjoy a greater level of volatility as the strikes being away from the market turn all option premium over to the time value.
He believes it is only a matter of time before OPEC decides to value oil in terms of a basket of currencies rather than the dollar, which could prove catastrophic for the dollar.
And even when you factor this in to your calculations, you still need much more massive earnings growth than the PEG ratio would imply you need, again due to the time value of money.
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The smart collectors, like smart investors, are the ones who have spent years exploring the market: buying when the offering was cheap and continuing to add value to their portfolio over time.
The only reason to use a tour operator is if you have money to burn and value your time enough where you simply want someone else to take care of all the details, in which case it makes sense.
"There is no other research-led consortium like the Smarter Energy Research Institute in our market and we believe that by bringing advanced research closer to areas of high industry importance, we can compress the time from research to implementation and business value, " commented Rob Maathuis, Director of Asset Management at Alliander.
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And if the currency could be counted on to hold its value over time, that made it a plausible platform on which to build new financial services.
Regardless of how you choose to track your auto expenses, the knowledge you get from doing so will put you in the driver's seat when it comes to figuring out how much your vehicle is costing you to operate and documenting its value when it's time to get rid of it.
Instead, thanks to free trade we hand off to them low value work and it gives us time to create the Googles, Intels and Microsofts of the world that make us the richest nation on earth.
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Facts that a hypothetical willing buyer and willing seller could reasonably have expected to know at the time may be considered to determine date of death value.
Apple leadership understands just in time information and how to create value in a mobile world.
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But as we shift to a time where labor value drops through the floor, income will be a game of taking control of resources.
"This is classic disruptive innovation, where the mainstream dismisses the product and small companies have time to create a real differentiated value, " says Staten.
One response to this challenge is to point out that what really matters is the value over time, something especially relevant to the consideration of new technologies.
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Without fracking, natural gas does would flow to the well properly, making it too time consuming and costly to be of any commercial value.
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