difference between cognos 8 and business intelligence

[monicca86]

hi all
I would like to know the basic differences between cognos 8 and business objects.I have worked in cognos and now my entire reporting has to be done in business objects as per my clients requirements now.

[pmoloney]

I'm passing this on second hand, but one of my outsource developers who works in both Cognos and Business Objects finds Business Objects very difficult to work with as many tasks take a lot longer to complete than they do in Cognos.  Having said that, I'm sure there's a list of things Business Objects does better than Cognos!  Out of interest, is the move to Business Objects for BI due to the SAP takeover?