We can save Data Flow Diagram, Data Movement and Business Process Models in the form of archive files.
What do you do with these archive files, which usage ?
For physical and multidimensional models we use the automatic generation of archive files (apm, mpa) when generating scripts for our databases.
"Archive PDMs Provide a snapshot of the structure of our database at a point-in-time to allow us to determine model exchange since That Time When updating our database. When Comparing our model Directly with a database or script and not with an archive PDM, Some PARTICULARLY renamed differences around objects can be lost, leading to more drop / alter Creates in place of statements."