If you are using SolidWorks Enterprise PDM to manage your documents, you are no doubt aware that EPDM offers Administrators an incredible amount of control over how the vault interacts with users and with your documents. However with great control comes ... a great number of property screens and options to set.
While this in depth control is great, it does mean that if you wanted to, for instance manually copy a Group or Workflow from one vault to another, or provide a complete break down of all your vault settings to a support technician if something isn't working correctly, it would very time consuming as there could be hundreds of individual settings involved.
That's why being able to export individual Workflows, Users, Cards ... or even the entire vault's settings in a single step is a great time saver for PDM Administrators.