Chapter 3: Application Software

Definition:Program designed to
make users more productive or
Uses: assists them with personal task
Make business more efficient System software:
Assists with graphics and multimedia
Support home ,personal and education Programs that control the
Facilitate communications operation of the computer

Application
Start the application:
Distribute: From the desktop, click the Start
pakage software button, point to All Program, then
custom software click the name of the application.
web-base software
open source software
Window:
shareware
A rectengular area
freeware Dialog box:
of the screen that
public-domain software A window that provides information,
displays data and
presents available option, or request a
information
response

Word Processing Spreadsheet Database Software

Software
Allows user create & manipulate allow you to create,access and manage data
text and graphics Organize data: add,change,delete,sort and retrieve data
Font is a name assigned to a Columns identified by letters Part of database:
specific design of characters Rows identified by numbers a table contain record
Clip art is a collection of images Cell is intersection of a record is a row in a table
that you can insert in column & row field is a column in a table
document Perform calculation: extract information:
Predefined formula that run queries to retrieve data
performs comman calculation can be sent as a report to the printer
Charting capabalities:
PDA Business Software Allows to display spreadsheet
data in graphical form Presentation Graphics Software
create document &
worksheet used to create visual aids for
manage database presentation
create slide show presentation called slide show
take notes
manage budgets
edit photographs BUSINESS SOFTWARE
Note Taking Software
read electronic book
Enables user to enter typed
text,handwritten comments, drawings
anywhere on the page
Software Suite
Collection of Accounting Software
individual Personal Information
application Manager Software
Project Management
Software
Document Management Software Calendar, address book,
notepad, and synchronization
Sharing distributing through documents by Enterprise Computing with desktop computer
converting them into a format that can be Software
viewed by any user
 Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Allow to create engineering , architectural and scientific designs

Desktop Publishing Software Enable to design & produce documents that contain text,
graphics and many colour

Paint/Image Editing Software

Graphics & Create & modified graphical image
Multimedia
Software
Video & Audio Editing Software Allows to modified a segment of a video and audio, called a clip

Multimedia Authoring Software Allow to combine text, graphics, audio, video, and animation

Allow users of all skill levels to create Web page

Web page Authoring Software

Application software Popular Utility

for communication Web Application Program

E-Mail A software application that antivirus program

Web browser obtain information from the personal firewall
Chat room Web spyware remover
FTP internet filter
Instant massaging file manager
Internet telephony file compression
Blogging backup
media player
PC maintainance

Application Service Provider(ASP) Third party organization that manages and distributes software and services on the web

Enterprise ASP Customizes and delivers high end business application like finance and database

Local/Regional ASP Offers a verify of software application to a spesific geographic region

Specialist ASP Delivers applications to meet spesific business need like human resources

Vertical Market ASP Provide application for a particular industry such as construction, health care

Volume Business ASP Supplies prepakaged applications such as accounting to business