Discoverer 10g and Cognos

Does anybody have any document outlining differences between capabilities between discoverer and cognos?
How effecting reporting tool is discoverer when it comes to OLTP reporting?
Thanks

You should check with your Oracle or Cognos sales consultant. Depending on whom you ask you will get an answer weighted towards one vendor or the other :)
What do you mean by reporting? Discoverer is a tool that you can use for both adhoc querying as well as reporting. It also offers integrated reporting against both relational and OLAP data sources, leverages the Oracle database's analytic and BI platform capabilities, is integrated with the Oracle Application Server, offers a quick and easy way to create BI dashboards in Oracle Portal, is the only BI tool to be certified against and work with the the Oracle eBusiness Suite security model out of the box, and lots more...
Of course, if enterprise reporting capabilities are all you are looking for, then I would suggest you take a look at Oracle Reports and the just announced Oracle XML Publisher.
You should also check out product demos, white papers, presentations, documentations, etc... - all available on OTN. Some links are provided below. Finally, you could even try out the software - free (under a developer license), which is more than can be said about Cognos or other vendors that are too scared of letting people even try out their software without first purchasing it.
Thanks
Abhinav
Oracle Business Intelligence Product Management
BI on Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/bi/
BI on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/
Discoverer: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/discoverer/
BI Software: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/devuse.html
Documentation: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/appserver1012.html
BI Samples: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/samples/
Blog: http://oraclebi.blogspot.com/

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