Bundle of two or more computer programs that together address a specific business need. For example, an 'illustration package' might include a drawing program, photograph manipulation program, page setting program, and a color matching and output control (printing) program.
Application packaging may refer
to:
- Creation of
computer program installations that allow software to be
installed across multiple computers
- Operations
performed by software bundle management systems in cloud computing environments
Application Package/Software is a set of programs to carry out operations for a specific application. For example, payroll
is an application software for an organization to produce pay slips as an output. Application software is useful for word processing, billing system, accounting, producing statistical report, analysis of numerous data in research, weather forecasting, etc. In later modules you will learn about MS WORD, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBASE III Plus. All these are application software.
Another example of application Package/Software is programming language. Among the programming languages
COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) is more suitable for business application whereas FORTRAN (Formula
Translation) is useful for scientific application. We will discuss about languages in next section.