JDM Strategy - Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard, and Practice - page 110

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Figure 5-1 Avoiding vendor lock-in.

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Figure 5-2 Multivendor solutions.

Apart from the negative aspects of vendor lock-in, a standard can
also make new and innovative applications possible, leveraging the
best features from a set of vendor tools. As illustrated in Figure 5-2,
the same application, or application user, can choose which vendor
features to use. Meanwhile, the application is using a common API to
interact with each of the systems. (Chapter 13 introduces an example
with code for such an application.)
Another variant of the multivendor solution involves possibly
distributed applications where mining objects are exchanged
between applications and among vendor products. The example
depicted in Figure 5-3 illustrates a build application that uses
Vendor 1 to build models. These models may be exported and then
imported into other applications, such as a visualization applica-
tion or an apply application, often referred to as a scoring engine .