Moreover, Associates was falling behind competitors in automating its operations, a long and costly process required to make it more efficient, analysts said.
The method is also suitable for large datasets, and even more efficient (in analyst's time) than the feature selection method, since it looks for all associations at once.
* Will make Amazon warehouses more efficient - analyst.
By contrast, Mexico has developed friendly investment rules and a relatively efficient bureaucracy, analysts said.
If MGM could pull off the stock dividend and a sale, it would be extremely tax efficient, several analysts noted.
Part of Lucent's problems may derive from a failure to deliver products developed by the company's Bell Labs research division to customers in a nimble and efficient way, analysts said.
The Spark's early success makes the case for a new Detroit market staked on smaller, fuel-efficient cars, analysts said.
That and a new distribution center have made the chain one of Brazil's most efficient, says David Wheeler, analyst at Bear , Stearns
As our framework aims to support analysts, the space must be represented in a way that is not only efficient for calculations: analysts should also be able to navigate this space in an intuitive way.
The technology, which Yahoo began to roll out early last year, has helped increase search advertising revenue, but Google's technology remains more efficient, according to analysts.
"Tying up capital in a retail gas station is not its most efficient use," Phil Weiss, energy analyst at the Argus Research Company, said.
