Hey Folks,
I have a lot of experience in XI R2 webi reporting. The new project works on SAP Business Objects 4.0. Wanted your inputs on the learning curve and how different is reporting on XI and 4. Does it require major unlearn/learn? Will I be able to skip XI R3 completely? 
Your inputs will be much appreciated.
Thanks a lot 
DhavalR 
(BOB member since 2008-03-17)
Wow…you guys are really Fast!! 
nitin_gons 
(BOB member since 2009-05-26)
haha. SAP BI projects seem to be waiting to move to Business Objects and its now upto us pure play BO felows to soak in some SAP knowledge.
I am clueless my self. Any experts out there 
DhavalR 
(BOB member since 2008-03-17)
From my point of view you can skip SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.x and start learning SAP BI 4.0 (as I prefer to call it).
Andreas 
(BOB member since 2002-06-20)
Thanks!
Can you highlight come key areas I should look at? I hear reporting on SAP is very effective on BO BI 4.0.
Also for some one from an relational/oracle backend experience how different is SAP as a data source?
DhavalR (BOB member since 2008-03-17)
SAP BW as data source is completely different (no SQL, but clumsy unwieldy MDX, etc).
For starters I would focus on:
Andreas (BOB member since 2002-06-20)
Seems like I am up for a lot of hard work! 
Last question - As with most products you think things will get better only after 4.1 is out? What has your experience of 4.0 been like?
DhavalR (BOB member since 2008-03-17)
I hardly was able to put my hands on 4.0, so someone else will have to pitch in.
Andreas (BOB member since 2002-06-20)
I am a SAP BI consultant and working on SAP BO from past few months.
And I can not agree more that the product will get stable only after the release of 4.1.
We have many bugs right now, but we can’t complain as it is still in ramp up stage and not yet released.
mayank4everurs (BOB member since 2011-04-22)
Andreas,
Having never seen v4, could you please expand a little about what you mean by ‘new hierarchies’.
Thanks…
anorak 
(BOB member since 2002-09-13)