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Reducing CostsIn today's competitive business environment, efficient processes are vital to an organization's bottom line. Making your directory more efficient makes those business processes that depend on it more efficient. Understanding your directory service's costs is the first step toward making it as cost-effective as possible. In this section, we'll outline some general cost-reduction principles as they apply to directory services. We'll then provide specific suggestions for reducing the costs at each point in the directory service life cycle. General Principles of Cost ReductionThere are three general principles you should keep in mind when striving to reduce the costs of your directory service:
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