BI Reporting Tools - Which one to prefer ?

We have many number of use Oracle Financials users and we do have exposure to all BI reporting tools, in addition to OFA. We are finding it dfficult to understant which tool would be the best to use in different situatoin. As we have Discoverer, DBI, OFA, ADI - It is confusing which tool to prefer in the first point, while creating reports.Also as we are in the developing end, we find it difficult to tell poeple that this tool would be the best for this sitation, as the same report could also be generated from other reporting tools.
Could anyone tell me where I can find documentation that would help us to identify the right tools for the right situation?
Many thanks.

For actual reporting tools, the standard Oracle Reports is of course popular as it comes with Oracle Apps predefined reports.
However, Discoverer is popular as it allows 'ad-hoc' reporting (which is another whole story in that do you want end users to perform ad-hoc querying) and its a tool that under 10g r2 has really come together.
XML Publisher is definitely something that Oracle is pushing more - and supposedly a some time in the long future replacement for Reports (so I've heard but who knows if the source is correct).
If you're referring to relational table tools, then the biggies are Oracle Discoverer, Cognos Impromptu, Business Objects, Brio, etc. However some have been bought out in recent past (ie: Brio). They all use a middle layer (ie: EUL, catalog, universe) and all have strengths and weaknesses. It's usually a safe argument to use the Oracle tool (if you can wait for it to catch up to competitors) as Oracle tools are usually tightly aligned with Oracle database, Apps, etc. But if you want more disparate sources to use the tool with, then Oracle tools (ie: Discoverer) may not always be the best one to use.
For OLAP reporting, the big boy is Hyperion (but at a considerable cost). Now, however Oracle is really trying to kill these other tools (sorry ... compete with), with the 10g database that supports relational and OLAP in the same database and their query tools (ie: Disco Plus 10g r2) that can access both / either.
So, it's one of those questions that always comes around again. Of course, General Motors is better than Ford, right? Same argument, but I've found that a company hanging it's hat on Oracle tools in an Oracle environment (database) and especially in an Oracle Apps shop (Enterprise Suite), usually is happy. Not always happy at the current version, but Oracle with it's humungous amount of money and resources, usually either gets their tool up to their competitor's level - or buys them out!
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