The term patching is going to get used quite a bit with the new Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Suite that Oracle has established as a pivotal software release towards their Fusion Middleware brand and BI dominance.  Specifically withing Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, the term patching will get to be ambiguous.  First there is OPatch, which for those who are familiar with Oracle RDBMS, this has been around for some time. The other patching utilities are around the OBI Repository (RPD) and the web catalog.  Yah, Finally!
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Oracle has just published a new Sample Sales Analysis RPD with supporting data files for OBIEE.  This OBIEE RPD example should be a great additional demo for any OBIEE professional to demo to clients and learn some techniques.

http://download.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/files/oracle_bi_sample_analysis_setup_files.zip

This is from Oracle and link comes thanks to John Minkjan our Netherlands native OBIEE guru.  I am still not sure how he got his hands on this but thanks any way John.

I will be taking this RPD a little further in the next few days and in Part 2 of this blog let you know via screenshots some of the highlights of this RPD.