SAP - BO XI Newbie

I know a bit about both SAP and BO both and wanted to understand how these products would work.
1) If I have a) BI Query and b) Oracle Table/View can I combine them in the same BO XI universe and have user report against that universe using either Voyager or Webi?
2) If I have BO Crystal Reports do I need to have a universe created to be able to access data from a SAP BI Query?
Points awarded !!!

Hi,
One of the major benefits of using a BEx Query as a source for Business Objects XI universes is that you do have access to the additional calculated key figures (CKF) and restricted key figures (RKF). If you do not use a BEx query as a source, you will have to rebuild this functionality into the Business Objects frontend tools queries.
Michael,
You can find more information on CKF and RKF at this link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/46/834ef375e30ad3e10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
Cheers,
Mike

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