This looks like I never returned to this thread. How rude of me. I hope you'll accept my apologies.
Business Objects is a reporting tool that sits over your current database and allows your users to create and store reports of varying complexity.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Oh what bastards those marketing folks are.
I'm two months into it now and have a pretty good grasp of it - at least I think I do. Coming from a mainframe background, I just can't help but ask "Why don't you include the reporting functions in your application?"
Will the users use it?
I doubt it. I think they'll get report creators to build the reports for them.