7. Integrated Packages

Customers who purchase a word processor often want a spreadsheet and database package as well as a presentation package and a desktop publisher and a few others. 

But, each package when purchased on its own is fairly expensive and customers may find that to buy them all individually is more expensive than they can afford.

Some manufacturers decided to put a selection of the most popular general purpose software together and sell it as one package at a much cheaper price than buying each package individually.  

This is called an ‘integrated package’.

An example of an integrated package is ‘Microsoft Office’ which contains Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Publisher. Another example is 'Lotus SmartSuite'