Since a single application commonly doesn’t satisfy the variety of use cases, variations of applications are needed to satisfy different scenarios. To avoid duplication of information a transformation describes a derived application using two parts:

• A reference to a base application
• The difference between the existing base application and the desired derived application (e.g. changes in the process layout to run all nodes in a single process rather than spread across multiple processes).

Vs Configuration

In comparison to configure an application, a transformation enables more complex changes as well as changes which require the generation of a new schedule.