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Leave a Comment / By Toheeb Olaide / April 25, 2020
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In today’s class, we will be talking about computer application software. Enjoy the class!
Computer Application Software
Application software is a programme or group of programmes designed for end-users. This software
can be divided into classes: system software and application software. Application software is a set of
computer programs designed to permit the user to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or
activities.
Application software cannot run on itself but is dependent on system software to execute. Examples
of an application include a word processor, a spreadsheet design and management system, an
aeronautical flight simulator, a console game, a drawing, painting, and illustrating system, or a library
management system.
Computer application software is so numerous. The different types of application software are:
1. Office application
2. Business application
3. Accounting application
4. Scientific application
5. Industrial applications
6. Games
Office/business application: Computer has become very important in offices and business
world including bank, aviation, industry and communication organisations. 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
1. Payroll system: used to prepare staff salaries.
2. Invoice control: given to a customer after a purchase has been made.
3. 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.
4. 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 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.
Graphics suite such as Adobe creative suite includes an application for creating and editing images
while Sony Audio suite is for Audio production.
Evaluation
1. Application software is a programme or group of programmes designed for
(a) manufactures (b) end-users (c) retailers (d) engineers
2. Application software permits the user to perform the following operations except
(a) coordinated functions (b) tasks (c) activities (d) reboot
3. One of these is not a type of application software
(a) office software (b) business software (c) RAM software (d) games
4. Word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation are all examples of
(a) Enterprise software (b) games (c) accounting software (d) office software
5. The application software that holds contents adopted for use by students is
(a) educational software (b) business software (c) office software (d) games
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