match” products from several vendors to make the best total solution for the customer, without being tied to a single vendor for all components. Vendor independence also assures that the standard data will always remain accessible, even when the company that generates this data ceases to exist.
Because standards are widely accepted, you can be sure that the standard, as well as its implementations, have been ruminated many times by many different people from different organizations. You could say that a standard is formed by more engineers than one single company could ever hire. Standards are proven, future-safe technology. For a company that needs to use a particular way of communication, there is no need to invent the wheel over and over again, because the result will almost surely be of lesser quality than the existing standard.
Especially for integrators