Star with BOBJ

Hi guys, my company just bought BOBJ license. Our bosses still don't know for what exactly it'll be used, nor when it'll be used. I'd like to start looking through this stuff since in our company nobody has experience with BOBJ and it's obvious that some day we'll have to use it and I also would like to have. May be it'll be the third party company that would give us a workshop or something, but i don't want to wait.
My question is where should I start, what are the core BOBJ tools that will be definitely used in by a SAP BI consultant in the future (we have a SAP BW system for warehousing)
In one question, where to start and what should be the thing I'd have to learn?
Thanx a lot

Hi,
"I installed the Businesosobjects X3.1 and i can't seem to find Crystal Report nor Dashboard Builder or Xcelsius?"
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 is a report design and distribution platform. It is comprised of:
- Client side (Windows) product
- Server side components
- Third-Party integration-enabled options
Crystal Reports Designer 2008 is a Windows product. You need it's installation media and a valid license key to install in on machines that will be used to build and publish Crystal Reports.
Dashboard Builder is present/embedded in BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 but you need:
1. "Seperate" Dashboard Builder license key
2. Setup its seperate repository
Xcelsius Designer 2008 is again a Windows product. You need it's installation media and a valid license key to install in on machines that will be used to build and publish Flash (.SWF) dashboards.
Since you are from SAP background, I presume your reporting and data visualization needs are on SAP data sources. For this to happen, you need to install "BusinessObjects Integration Kit For SAP XI 3.1" client-server specific components on top of BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 platform.
Additionally, you may want to take a look here
BusinessObjects for beginners Re: Business Objects Beginners Guide
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Hi, I'm a newbie here trying some stuff on JE BDB. And now I'm having
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Sorry for the mistake. I know now that here is the place to post my doubts.
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At this moment I'm trying to understand the Sequence mechanism and refining concerns about Cursors manipulation...Have you any good material about these topics, perhaps a link where I can find more detailed information on these? >
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