data effectively is crucial for success in today's competitive environment. Managers must know how to use a variety of tools. Integrated data takes information from different sources and puts it together in a meaningful and useful way. One of the difficulties of this is the(2)in hardware and software.(3)integration uses a base document that contains copies of other objects.(4)integration uses a base document that contains the current or most recent version of the source document it contains. (5)provides an overview of the program written in 'plain' English, without the computer syntax.