however the number of connections within organizations does not grow according to the square of the number points. in general, the number of connections to any point is independent of the number of other points in an organization. (thought experiment: if an additional point is added to your organization, are you aware of it? does it increase the number of connections other unrelated points have?) there are a small number of "collection" points for which this does not apply, but these do not require eai patterns to manage.