Need suggestions about learning "Business Intelligence"

Hi,
Currently I am wroking as a Oracle PL/SQL developer. I am planning to learn "Business Intelligence".
I found many documents in Google but I didn't get which is helpful for beginners.
so can any one please give me your suggestions to learn BI and send me User Guide for BI.
Thank you,

Vijai,
You could go through this link for further details interms of scenario and settings needed...<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/e0/71bb169c9f11d191920000e8a5f6e6/frameset.htm">Strategy 60</a>
Hope this helps...Reward your points if so,
Regards,
Prasobh

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can any body explain / suggest to me, what must i install any software on my computer to develop BI.
please give me the url to download or ebook to guide me.
FYI
i have installed Oracle Business Enterprise 11g. i downloaded it from oracle site.
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Hi,
11g software can be downloaded form here,
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bus-intelligence-11g-165436.html
You have plenty of kick start materials here,
http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/getting_started
Rgds,
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>
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