As more devices and applications are incorporated into the network, complexity and costs also rise, especially if the platforms are divergent.
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This results in a dramatic reduction of complexity and costs while at the same time making the networks faster without the addition of infrastructure, making service provider networks more agile.
Looming in the immediate future are all of the top fears of small-business owners: rising health care costs and complexity, Administration support for unions, poor economic policy (raising uncertainty), rising energy costs, more regulations and red tape (EPA, health care), and more tax complexity (including health care) and higher marginal tax rates.
The problem is that the more businesses expand to deal with growth (and then to maintain it), the more complexity increases organizational costs.
He says that this model is appealing for CIOs who are often asked to execute initiatives of increasing complexity while keeping costs in check.
All of them added complexity (and costs) throughout the company and worse yet, many of them created hidden costs that have gone undetected and unmanaged.
Scott-Clayton recently co-authored a new paper on the costs of complexity in the college financial aid system.
Big Data offers big business gains, but hidden costs and complexity present barriers that organizations will struggle with.
This could radically simplify the mobile charger industry and decrease the costs and complexity of cables for charging mobile devices.
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This is because of the costs and complexity involved in the treatment.
It said health and safety was "often invoked to disguise someone's real motives - concerns over costs or complexity, compensation culture or an unwillingness to honestly defend an unpopular decision".
Compliance costs and complexity are hardly the only problems.
Mr Osborne presented a united front with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, following reports the Treasury wanted to scrap the work and pensions secretary's new Universal Credit over fears costs and complexity were spiralling out of control.
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Chrysler, meanwhile, is in some ways ahead of Ford and GM in reducing costs and complexity by sharing underbodies and parts between different vehicles and brands, and by building vehicles in flexible factories that can build different models in response to demand.
And that means lower costs and less complexity for corporate customers.
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The first step is to ensure there is a flexible and fluid IT environment that directly and indirectly helps everyone communicate, while allowing IT to manage costs and reduce complexity.
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Dell have consolidated hundreds of smaller applications onto a single, global platform, reducing IT complexity, saving millions in IT costs, and increasing the speed and agility of their businesses.
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The market for mission critical enterprise storage solutions will continue grow as enterprises try to save energy costs and reduce network complexity by moving network traffic to dedicated storage area networks.
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Complexity erodes profit margins by gradually increasing costs and slowing down day to day business efficiency.
As Fallows pointed out ages ago, the military hangs all sorts of gadgets and capabilities on new programs, driving up cost and complexity, delaying completion and increasing the maintenance costs.
To put this complexity in perspective, Edmund Teller once estimated that the costs of building the data and computing infrastructure needed to extend weather forecasting abilities by about two weeks ran well into the trillions of dollars.
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The costs of making a website accessible vary based on the complexity of a website, and it is much cheaper to build accessibility features into a new site than to retrofit an old one, experts said.
By harnessing the power of big data across business units, eBay is conquering complexity and gaining market share, even as it improves efficiencies and cuts costs.
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The expense-cutting push is risky, Brown says, because of the complexity of the bank's operations and the lack of guarantees that cutting costs in the middle and back offices will fix things long-term.
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