New to Business Objects

Hi Gurus!!
I have been working in SAP MDM area for 3 years and now I want to enrich my technical skillset.In order to so I thought it would be good to learn BO.
So could you experts pls guide me on what is BO all about , and how can I learn it?
Thanks in advance!!
Ravi

Hi,
Please go through this blog to get some idea about BOBJ tools and installation.
/people/community.user/blog/2008/11/17/businessobjects-enterprise-xi-r2-beginner-tutorial
After reading this blog Please go through help.sap.com to get more documents about BOBJ. download trail version of BOBJ and start working with it.
please go through these links also.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/business-objects-for-sap?rid=/webcontent/uuid/20f83c7e-3f2a-2c10-7dbf-a5ec14611a1e [original link is broken]
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/business-objects-for-sap?rid=/webcontent/uuid/a02d2792-452a-2c10-7c8f-ddd50dad779b [original link is broken]
Thanks,
SK.
Edited by: Vallabhaneni SK on Jun 17, 2009 4:04 PM

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