"We want to manage the cost of desktop operations and increase stability, " says Gene Dickamore, business systems manager for Arup Labs, a medical reference laboratory.
Instead, profit is driven by our ability to manage operations as cost-effectively as possible and by investing in maintaining our infrastructure.
The exponential growth of data has specifically affected the legal profession, where the amount of data being produced is outpacing the ability of humans and technology to cost-effectively manage and review it.
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Increasingly however, many companies are re-establishing the balance between risk and cost focus as they manage their global supply chain.
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Data growth rates will simply outpace the cost of scale to manage hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of Big Data that comes every day.
"Chromebooks are in use today by more than one-thousand K-12 schools, and they make an ideal on-to-one device because they're more cost effective, easier to manage and maintain than traditional laptops or tablets, " said Caesar Sengupta, director of product management, Chrome OS, Google.
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Chromebooks are attractive to schools because they are cost-effective, easy to manage and easy to use.
You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time.
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If you own or manage a business, you know the variable cost for minutes, texts, and data can grow quickly.
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They do their research, maybe consult with friends and use low-cost online tools to track and manage their short- and long-term goals.
Many private lenders encourage students to plan ahead on how to finance college, so "your eyes are open on what it's going to cost you and how you will manage that, " says a spokeswoman for Sallie Mae, a Reston, Va.
Rather, farmers choose them because they are easier to manage, demand less weeding and take lower-cost, less toxic herbicides.
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Companies have become more comfortable moving their data to the Web (or "cloud, " in industry parlance), if it means they save on the cost of running the machines necessary to manage that data in-house.
While we've no idea how much the Mars Global Surveyor actually cost to construct, launch, and manage whilst hovering around in space, it's entirely likely that a single human error wiped out even more than was initially lost by the Alaska Department of Revenue earlier this year.
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For one thing, they typically charge a simple subscription fee per user, making the cost of information technology easier to see and manage.
The consistent message across all groups is that very few people beat the market with any consistency in the long-term, and that passive investing using low-cost index funds is a superior way to manage money.
"We've got these diseases of aging that cause disability, cost a ton of money to treat and manage, and wreck people's lives, " said Dr. Gregory Cole, a professor of medicine and neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in this new study.
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Or, you can use software to help manage the problem, which helps you potentially to reduce both cost and risk.
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"The combination of good execution at the point of sale, superior net revenue and margin management, and cost and productivity initiatives has enabled us to effectively manage through a challenging set of global business conditions, " said Chief Executive EricFossEric Foss of Pepsi Bottling.
"The combination of good execution at the point of sale, superior net revenue and margin management, and cost and productivity initiatives has enabled us to effectively manage through a challenging set of global business conditions, " said Chief Executive Eric Foss of Pepsi Bottling.
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One single QBotix robot can manage 300 kilowatts worth of panels, reducing components, maintenance and cost but it also gives the solar farms another benefit, reduces the cost of construction.
Additional benefits of a virtualized rack workstation include the ability to centralize, secure and manage data, leverage worldwide talent pool, share resources for improved cost effectiveness and run performance critical applications that require the host system and data to be in close proximity.
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More investment is flowing to technologies such as upgraded power grids with smart meters that allow users to better manage their consumption of electricity, and energy-efficient buildings that reduce the cost of operations and improve human health through better air quality.
Why then, when the 3 series can cost so much more than a comparable Audi or Infiniti, does BMW manage to sell so many of them?
For cost efficiency, best pricing to customers and freshest product delivery, they manage to create a scenario where products rarely stay in the warehouse for more than a week.
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First, Web innovators, such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo, have developed a massively scalable storage and compute architecture to manage Big Data: Hadoop, which parallelizes large data sets across low-cost commodity hardware for easy scale and dramatically reducing the cost of petabyte environments.
But Obamacare largely prescribes the benefit design and limits cost sharing, leaving networks one of the few levers that plans have to manage costs and competition.
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Yeung said the company has been working to manage down inventory in an attempt to improve gross margins during the slowdown and will continue cost-cutting actions.
Rather it requires organizations to fundamentally transform the way they procure, manage and use their IT applications and services which, in turn, drives up the cost and complexity of implementation.
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Sure, it is the cost of doing business, but it does not have to be as challenging to manage as it is now for small business owners.
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