A Dashboard typically represent a combination of different Reports to provide summary information about a Business Process or Sub-Process e.g. with HR: A Recruiting Dashboard may contain Reports about hiring sources and the respective Time to Hire or a Dashboard provides Reports about certain balance information E.g. current capital in Fixed Assets. Over time these Reports may be replaced or exchanged and many reports may only be created for Testing purposes. The management of all these Reports becomes very difficult and the IT Department may want to understand the structure of the Web Catalog in terms of Report usage on Dashboard and Report Orphans. The Oracle BI Sample App provides a example of how this can be implemented under the Lifecycle and Admin section:
Pre-built Reports exist that Analyse the structure of the Webcat to determine unused Analysis:
These samples require to execute scripts on the BI instance, which is also documented within the Sample App Image under /app/oracle/SAScripts/ReferenceChecker.
Oracle BI Applications 