1. Consolidates all the information about the company's products, technology,
    markets and business benefits in one place instead of having it scattered all
    over a Web site in white papers, HTML pages and spec sheets as is
    characteristic of many companies

  2. Establishes a credible technical tone which adds immediate authority and
    objectivity to your selling efforts

  3. Establishes the company's acronyms and definitions as "prima facie" and
    self-evident

  4. Avoids aggressive promotion until the end of the report or lets you break the
    market / technology and product information into separate reports.

  5. Makes the product/service promotional copy credible as a seamless
    extension of the objective tone established up front in the report.

  6. Educates those readers not familiar with certain technology concepts if
    necessary to substantially increase your company's credibility and customers'
    comfort level

  7. Sequence of report topics are accomplished in a way that no readers are
    left confused

  8. Generates an impression of credibility and depth even to the skim reader
    through highly effective use of graphical techniques and a glossary of industry
    jargon used in the report

  9. Becomes your "self-standing salesman" for the company's products and
    technology so that it can be attached to internal approval paperwork within
    a customer's organization to answer questions and facilitates approval by
    those not reached by the sales team and not familiar with the technology

  10. Becomes your "self-standing sales trainer" so your sales team and resellers
    can sell more confidently

  11. Factually addresses competitive issues and then focuses customer attention
    on your products and services

  12. Adds extra credibility to PowerPoint presentations that can be derived from
    it for use in sales presentations providing an integrated sales and marketing
    communications tool with consistent information to all audiences

  13. Creates an informationally attractive response piece for direct-response
    advertising