Suppose you had a global TM1 application with multiple cubes defined—possibly a cube for each of a company's sales regions—Northern, Western, Southern, and Eastern.
Each sales region cube holds forecasting data for only that particular region. At some point in the forecasting cycle, the regions need to submit a finished forecast for their region to corporate headquarters into a Global TM1 cube as part of a consolidated forecast for the organization.
Let us say that each of the global region cubes are made up of the following dimensions:
Version
Period
Region
Product
Measure
You could create another hard cube and write a TurboIntegrator (TI) process to copy forecasts from each of the region cubes to the main cube to show your consolidated forecast.
Another solution might be to define the additional cube to consolidate all of the regions' forecasts for reporting, but instead of periodically copying data from the individual hard cubes to the consolidation cube...