Extend and Customize Platform Capabilities
The Inference for QbD solution is highly extensible, designed with the future in mind. Inference for QbD capabilities can be extended by the use of Inference Integration Plug-Ins: software connectors that integrate Inference with 3rd party applications and systems. They fall into two categories:
Parts-Container Plug-Ins enabling the creation, importing, reporting, visualization or editing of new data-analysis part types. Illustrative examples relevant to QbD are given below:
- Data-Set Plug-Ins enable import, export and use of “foreign format” data files (e.g., DOE applications, ELN records) by the data-analysis platform. Data Set Plug-Ins run on top of the StatDataML runtime, which provides translation of foreign data formats into StatDataML, the universal data structure used by Inference.
- Object Plug-Ins enable import, export and use of 3rd-party binary or ASCII objects (e.g., design space models, code files) by the data-analysis platform.
- InterViewer Plug-Ins enable integration of data sets or objects with custom or 3rd party applications for use in dynamic reporting and visualization.
- Editor Plug-Ins enable integration of data sets or objects with custom or 3rd party applications for parts creation and editing.
Export Document Plug-Ins for the export of processed documents into new forms or to new destinations. Inference for QbD currently supports export to:
- a results document view (Word view, web page view, PDF view)
- a results document file (Word file, HTML file, webpage archive file)
- an object file (Inference Excel file, StatDataML file, R source code file)