An automobile and personal property insurer has decentralized its information processing to the extent that headquarters has less processing capacity than any of its regional processing centers. These centers are responsible for initiating policies, communicating with policyholders, and adjusting claims. The company uses leased lines from a national telecommunications company. Initially, the company thought there would be little need for interregional communication, but that has not been the case. The compa
A. ack of awareness at headquarters of the state of processing
B. ncreased cost and complexity of network traffic
C. nterference of the mirrored data with original source data
D. onfusion on the part of insurance agents about where customer data are stored