Discoverer release 10g uses BI Beans to present Oracle OLAP data. It gets its power from BI Beans. How does this strategy give Discoverer users the flexibility to analyze OLAP data? What features does this expose to the users over what has been available previously? Custom applications that use BI Beans have many of the capabilities that are in the Discoverer 10g application. When would you want to use Discoverer and when would you want to code an application directly in BI Beans? This presentation will contrast Discoverer 10g with custom-built BI Beans applications and discuss why you should consider these products.