### Use cases

Here are a few, but you can use your imagination 😀

* Merge branched models. Manage production branches for bug fixes.
* Deploy bug fixes and partial releases.
* Reuse definitions between tabular models for alignment with common business definitions.
* Reuse definitions from self-service models to IT-owned semantic models.

For a detailed list of features and use cases, see the ALM Toolkit and BISM Normalizer  [documentation](https://github.com/microsoft/Analysis-Services/blob/master/AlmToolkit/Model%20Comparison%20and%20Merging%20for%20Analysis%20Services.pdf).

### History

The ALM Toolkit codebase started out as the BISM Normalizer Visual Studio extension. ALM Toolkit is decoupled from Visual Studio.

This video covers BISM Normalizer 3 use cases and demo. Most of this still applies to ALM Toolkit.

[![IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE](http://img.youtube.com/vi/LZdOwfJqFrM/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZdOwfJqFrM)

    
### Internal code/object model

This video shows the internals and object model of BISM Normalizer/ALM Toolkit. Most of it is still relevant today.

[![IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE](http://img.youtube.com/vi/r3eGK-dSYuw/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3eGK-dSYuw)