OBIEE 11g: Do You Need Separate Mds, Biplatform Schemas for each Instance

Do you need separate MDS, BIPLATFORM schemas per OBIEE instance?

For example, say you have 5 developers, do you need to run the RCU Wizard 5 times to create 5 different MDS and BIPLATFORM schemas each with a different prefix? Or can the different OBIEE instances share the same OBIEE Database repository Schemas?

The answer disappointingly is: NO.

Different OBIEE instances cannot share a single database repository schema.

It is one OBIEE instance per schema.

For more information please see "Sharing Schemas Required by Oracle Business Intelligence":

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/bi.1111/e10539/c3_requrmnts.htm#BABBICDA