Appiclations-wk3

• Application Software


  A type of computer program designed to perform specific tasks or functions for end-users
• Examples of application software

  • Word processor
  • Spreadsheet design and management system
  • Aeronautical flight simulator
  • Console game
  • Drawing, painting, and illustrating system
  • Library management system
• Types of Application Software


  • Office application
  • Business application
  • Accounting application
  • Scientific application
  • Industrial applications
  • Games
  • Application Suite
  • Enterprise Software
  • Enterprise Infrastructure Software
  • Information Worker Software
  • Content Access Software
  • Educational Software
  • Media Development Software
• Office/business application: Computer has become very important in offices and business world including bank, aviation, industry and communication organizations. Before now, there were lots of paper works in offices but today, the computer has reduced this as lots of information are stored directly into it. Examples of various business application are Payroll system: used to prepare staff salaries. Invoice control: given to a customer after a purchase has been made. Stock control: used in supermarket and departmental stores to keep a record of purchases made by customers and to know the current stock of goods in the store. Bank transaction such as deposit, withdrawal, funds transfer and customer information unit are all done in the bank.
• Scientific/industrial application: Computers are used for scientific research, weather forecast, space exploration, and laboratory tests – manual and automated etc.
• Games: There are different kinds of games that can be played through the use of the computer system. E.g., spider solitaire, card games, chess etc.
• Application Suite: Have multiple applications bundled together. Related functions, features and user interfaces interact with each other.
• Enterprise Software: Addresses an organization’s needs and data flow in a huge distributed environment.
• Enterprise Infrastructure Software: Provides capabilities required to support enterprise software systems.
• Information Worker Software: Addresses individual needs required to manage and create information for individual projects within departments.
• Content Access Software: Used to access contents and addresses a desire for published digital content and entertainment.
• Educational Software: Holds contents adopted for use by students.
• Media Development Software: Addresses individual needs to generate and print electronic media for others to consume.
• Examples of application software


  • Microsoft Word
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Sony Audio Suite
• Microsoft Word is a popular word-processing application that is included in the software suite of applications called Microsoft Office. A software suite is a group of software applications with related functionality. For example, office software suites might include word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and email applications.