However, much of this critical information may be buried within your enterprise systems and dispersed across multiple documents, system records, locations, companies and databases.

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In theory, the derivatives markets have strengthened the financial system, by allowing risk to be dispersed away from the banks.

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Because risk is dispersed to those who have an appetite for it, the system should be more robust.

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In the past decade it has built almost 60 miles of railway lines, creating an elegant subway system that is ill-suited for such a dispersed, centreless place.

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Green stormwater management is a collection of approaches that is dispersed across public and private land, and not a single system residing underground and maintained by one agency.

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In the researchers' new imaging system, a beam of infrared laser light is widely dispersed throughout a room.

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Under the new system, talent is assembled on a film-by-film basis and dispersed once the project was done.

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