The internet has been around in commercial form for 10 or 15 years, but it has really yet to be integrated into how businesses function.

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Even the rich industrialised economies, taken as a group, by no means function as an integrated whole.

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If internal capital markets function well within integrated markets, reducing remaining inconsistencies and differences in the regulatory framework of member states and coordinating supervision within the EU should be a priority.

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"LotusLive is an integral vehicle for our employees to truly function as a globally integrated enterprise, " said Mitsuhiro Aoyama, vice president of corporate information systems at Panasonic.

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