You have created and published your framework for modelers across the organization to use. As they work with it, they recommend things that will make their job easier and their models more consistent. You also learned a lot from the first iteration of developing the framework and have some of your own changes you would like to make. After making the adjustments you republish your framework. As the modelers start working with it, they realize that their models no longer conform to the new version. They are now faced with the decision to make countless adjustments manually or to simply start over.

This scenario is one of the biggest reasons a modeling program fails. However, with Model Guardian it is not a problem. Model Guardian tracks the framework element from which each model element and connector is created. Synchronizing your models with the current version of the framework is as simple as clicking on the Synchronize button.