integrate data warehouses can be solved completely by applying XCube. Another interesting point in XCube is the evolution of XCubeText. Extracting all descriptive texts into special files gives rise to supporting several languages or dialects for different application domains and thus making the same data cube useful for different professions. A last idea for using XCube sketched here is to create new data warehouses according to the XCube standards. Originally XCube is meant to work on top of an existing warehouse, thus the system dependent representation of the data has to be transformed to XCube. For new data warehouse projects it might be worth thinking about using XCube right from the beginning for the conceptual modelling phase. The advantage would be an even easier way to integrate this new data into other warehouses. As a first step towards this direction one could think of introducing standard dimensions similar to the standard time dimension. Finally we want to remark that XCube is not only a mere specification but that OFFIS and the University of ErlangenNuremberg have jointly developed a set of prototypes. We have written an export component that extracts the TPC-H scenario ([28]) from a MS SQL-Server 2000 to XCube; further we have developed a plug-in oriented import component named XCubeLoader that is able to import the TPC-H data in XCube representation into several database systems, among them MS Access and Oracle 9iR2. By writing new plug-ins against a well defined interface nearly every database system can be made XCube aware.