General benefits implementing BO against SAP-BI.

Hi Experts,
We have SAP-BI7.0 as our Business Intelligence system and we are thinking to implement BO.
I have read some information (Ingo's blog, for instance) assuring that BO will run nicely over SAP-ECC and SAP-BI, so the information retrieved from SAP-ECC could be a good reason.
But I haven't read anything regarding mixing the data retrieved from infosets in SAP-ECC (SQ01) and queries (BEX) in SAP-BI (for instance).
On the other hand I have heard that one reason to have BO is that the masterdata is fully available from BO reporting.
The general question of this thread is ask you "why should we go to BussinessObjects?", but I'd like to split this question in some other little questions
1-What are the benefits of installing BO vs having SAP-BI? Benefits of CrystalReports, Excelsius, etc?
2- (Deleted -> see the [integration forum|Benefits implementing BO over SAP-BI.;)
3-Assuming a new project: Which requirements should make us decide to go to BO now?
4- (Deleted -> see the [integration forum|Benefits implementing BO over SAP-BI.;)
5-What is new (vs SAP-BI) if we use the masterdata in BO reporting?
Thanks and regards.
Please, do not hesitate in request more info from my side, and answer just one or some of the 5 questions, and any other question that could be useful.
Use links if necessary.
Zorion
PS:
Ingo's 9 first blogs: BusinessObjects and SAP Part 9 - Xcelsius with Crystal Reports and Live Office
Edited by: Zorion on Nov 18, 2008 7:45 AM - Separate the SAP's part into the integration forum

Thanks for your reply, Falk.
I did read some "getting started" documents but I did not find anything what can't be done easily with SAP-BI or MS excel, so I assumed that I was checking the wrong documents.
Since there are hundred of documents, I have prefered to start a new thread here in order someone could guide me to the correct documents, sorry for the inconveniences.
Please, could you give me to a document showing the powerful of BO, or any demo video/page/document?
Thanks again and kind regards.
Zorion

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