Most large organizations today have an enterprise data warehouse that houses a huge portion of important corporate data. Smaller companies often have relational data marts. More and more processing is being pushed into these data warehouse platforms, and this trend is going to continue.

this layer, the results of big data processing are analyzed and displayed either by business users or by other systems using them to make automated decisions.

The point is that there is a wealth of information compiled within an EADS. It will help eliminate redundant efforts, greatly increase transparency, and improve consistency.