Transitioning from BW to Business Object / IP to BPC

Dear Experts,
I have not been working on BW for a while.
I know that recently in SAP BI, new products like BO and BPC have taken over some of the traditional functions. Correct me if i am wrong.
In BO there are so many products. For a traditional SAP BI person ( worked on BI 7 and BI-IP) what components of BO should i learn in order to be current? For example, i used to us  BEx Explorer and Designer. What is the name of BO component that has replaced these? I need to know the product name that i should focus on to keep myself up to date.
Hope to get some advice.
Thanks for reading.
sincerely
John

Hi John.
Xcelsius, Xcelsius, Xcelsius!
If I had to choose one product from the BO palette and only focus on that, it would be xcelsius. It's time consuming to get everything to look exactly the way you want and especially to behave how you want to - but a lot of cool things can be done and the end result is great (stick it in a pdf or in a ppt and it's still just as alive - niiiiice!)
But with that comes the quersion of how you get your data into xcelsius, so you quickly want to learn about web-i, qaas, etc also. So the integration to BW is important.
The whole infoview/dashboard&analytics/cmc "stuff" can be thought of as a portal solution with an in-build "query designer" (this would be the dashboard and analytics stuff in Infoview).
Creating universes and connecting to a query in BW is easy, but you have a looooong way from the BW query to the final flash file coming out of Xcelsius (query, connection, universe, web-i query on the universe, web-i in xcelsius through live office). However, this has now [improved with BI 7.2|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/a03ecbcc-cee7-2c10-93b1-886dbb4e9778] where the BW query is connected to xcelsius using the Bex Web Interface, so much more direct, but I havn't had a chance to try the new stuff yet
Eventually you will have to get a grasp of infoview/cmc etc too, as many customers will be deploying the xcelsius flash files through infoview.
Regards
Jacob

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