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One of the primary reasons for having structured data is to provide the ability to automate decision-support and reasoning across information models, data types, and the terminology associated with the attributes of each data type. For the ECCF registry to provide maximal value to end-users, it is necessary to support common decision-support functions across the enterprise and to extend that through services to the end-users.

Decision-support services and the analytics that resolve to those services depend upon the metadata present in the ECCF registry and the relationships instantiated between objects in the registry.

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