Ingesting material from file based cameras and making multiple back-up copies of the original material. Creating selects and notes for editing. Rough cutting sequences to send to PP.
The software may or may not make sense in your workflow. If your camera doesn't record to a card it will be of little value. If it does it will help in transferring all the clips and info from the cards to your editing system. It can create backups while it ingests to your edit workstation. It can also transcode clips to other formats.
Hope that helps