The types of application software that this lesson did not cover include educational software, accounting software, and enterprise software.
Education software: This software consists of facilities that enable individuals looking for educational material to access the contents. Users typically include teachers, trainers, students, and others who want extra knowledge on a particular subject, or wish to take a complete course.
Courseware is an example of educational software. Companies use the term to describe a whole course or lessons bundled together on a particular subject, along with quizzes and other materials. You may think of courseware as ‘computer-formatted’ classroom inputs that enable you to learn without physically attending an educational institution.
Companies, as well as educational institutions, have taken to technology to help reduce the harmful environmental effects of a reliance on paper. Assessment software is educational software that creates a virtual testing environment that conducts tests and evaluates each student’s ability and knowledge. It uses interconnected networks to create a common platform for computers that can store online test results and access them when needed.
Accounting software: Accounting software typically provides an accounting information system. As the name suggests, accounting software records and processes accounting transactions. It may be created as an in-house system by a company, or acquired as packaged software and integrated into a company’s system. It helps managers keep track of the accounts payables and receivables, the payroll accounting, and the trial balance.
Enterprise software: Enterprise software is typically a suite of integrated applications that keep track of the transactions and business activities of an organization. Some organizations may use this software to plan their entire business system. However, deploying such a system can be very expensive, and many companies avoid using it. Enterprise application software typically provides services related to business-oriented tools that facilitate online shopping, online payments, automated billing, human resources management, and so on. The most popular enterprise software packages include customer relations management, business intelligence, project management, and human resource management programs.
