Flexible: Most information worth disseminating tends to change and the source of this information is generally kept in a database or similar type of system. In addition, if you wish to record information from or about your users and their usage of the system, a static page cannot monitor the user's usage of the system or record information from those users.

Interactive: Information can periodically be downloaded from a database to some static files. However, this requires programming skills and significant administration to ensure that copies of the data remain coordinated. RES-Reach can interact with the original information or a replicated copy of the production database, guaranteeing that the data is not compromised.

Inexpensive alternative to traditional client-server approach: RES-Reach solves many of the expensive issues in broad data distribution. To implement a traditional client-server system with multiple sites for broad data distribution:

• software must be distributed to all possible users
• a Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity must be established
• licenses to the database system, network, and run-time system must be purchased
• systems must be managed continually
• users with differing operating systems must be supported