Application software
'app' computer software
singular or multiple related specific documents tasks
Hardware analogy
electric light bulb (system service application)
electric power generation plant (computing generative platform)
wireless power generation plant (cloud computing)
Office suites
Office software suite
Retail software
Knowledge workers' productivity suite
- Word processor
- Spreadsheet
- Presentation program
- Notetaking program
- Graphics suite
- Formula editor
- Database
- Communication
- Project management software
- Desktop publishing software
- Portable Document Format export
- Email client
- Personal information manager
- HTML editor
- Groupware
- Web log analysis software
Components distributed together and interact
Consistent user interface
Graphics software
Image editing software
- static graphics
- animation
- video editing
Manipulate visual digital images
- See also: raster graphics and vector graphics
Media players
Playing multimedia files
- audio (audio players)
- video (video players)
user interface for media type
Accounting software
Accounting information system
Records and processes accounting transactions
Functional modules
- accounts payable
- accounts receivable
- payroll
- trial balance
Enterprise software
Enterprise application software (EAS)
Computer Based Information Systems
Organization's software
- business
- government
Business-oriented tools
- internet shopping
- payment processing
- product catalogue
- billing systems
- security
- content management
- IT service management
- customer relationship management
- resource planning
- business intelligence
- HR management
- manufacturing
- forms automation