At the top of the scale, demand response (DR) systems allow multiple enterprises to manage their usage through a third-party provider to balance peak loads and let each participant optimize costs.
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As part of its mid-term strategic initiatives announced in April 2012, Sony identified resource optimization as one of the key initiatives for transforming its electronics business and Sony has since been progressively implementing various structural reform measures to optimize costs, streamline its overall organization, accelerate decision-making processes and establish firm foundations for sustainable future growth.
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Expedia also operates a corporate travel business, Egencia (egencia.com), which offers custom travel products and services to corporate travelers and businesses, helping then optimize travel costs and improve their employees travel experiences.
As a result, enterprises have re-examined their current Identity and Access Management (IAM) processes and have begun to look for new IAM approaches to ensure that their organizations are safe from access-related security breaches, optimize the operational costs associated with access control and meet their internal and external compliance requirements.
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The acquisition should allow the company to reduce costs, optimize pricing and speed innovations to market.
Since all the parties to these contracts would like to tailor the contract terms to optimize their profits or minimize their costs, they have a tremendous need to customize the billing and compensation for each relationship.
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These products are also designed to optimize production yields, improve throughput, and reduce production costs.
Using locational arbitrage, load shifting, and other methods, FuelQuest is using software and technology to optimize fuel purchases and contracting, thus bringing down input costs.
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Lufkin also provides a wide array of automation systems for oil and gas wells to optimize their artificial lift technologies with an ultimate objective to reduce production costs.
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If it is unable to either shift from the big-box retail format to smaller stores, or optimize store space by sub-leasing to other businesses, operating costs will not come down.
Continuing to reduce the costs of on-line storage will require the management of stored content to optimize availability depending upon frequency of use and use of commodity storage and other data center equipment.
The SunShot initiative focuses on bringing down costs by pursuing innovations in four particular areas, including solar cell technology, power electronics that optimize the performance of installations, improvements in manufacturing processes, and installation and system design.
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