BW VS other data warehousing tools

What are some of the fundamental differences between SAP BW and other datawarehousing tools like Business objects and Cognos.
Please provide specific points for each of the tools.
Thanks

Hi
See the following
SAS or BW as reporting tool
Re: Difference between COGNOS and SAP BW
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N Ganesh

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