Hi Chuck,
Couple of things, assuming that your license gives you access the SI web parts (if now you can upgrade anytime) you need to take a look at the Configuration Editor User Guide section "Configuring the SI Configuration File".
This section shows you how to define a System (SQL Server, Oracle, etc) and a Service (connection string) and a and then check the Users Guide SIListView.
Basically this wp allows you to use the Service defined above and to use the Methods that this Service exposes (ie SQL Server stored procedures).
Then once you have that you can define the lists of the fields and the web part will render the data for you.
SIListForm allows you to create/update/view/delete data from a system.
For more details check the docs and the online videos available for our product.