Example: Plan-Actual Data

You have one InfoProvider with the actual data for a logically related business area and one equivalent InfoProvider with the plan data. To compare the actual data with the planned data in one query, you combine the two InfoProviders into one MultiProvider.

This is a homogeneous data model. Homogeneous MultiProviders consist of InfoProviders that are technically the same, for example, InfoCubes with exactly the same characteristics and similar key figures. In this case, the InfoCube with the plan data contains key figure Planned Costs and the InfoCube with the actual data contains key figure Actual Costs.

Homogeneous MultiProviders represent one way in which you can achieve partitioning within modeling.