WIKI Page - Office & Business

The Office and Business class covers a wide range of applications. Of course, most popular are the office suites, spellcheckers and editors, but you'll find also find project management tools and accounting software.

Since most of the products in this class are commercial, the piracy rate is very high. According to BSA, 68% of the eastern europeans and 66% of the americans were using pirated business software in 2006.

Contents
Classification Top products Events Communities Further reading

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Classification

• Small business software – products like office suites and accounting software
• Small and medium sized business software – for example e-commerce software and customer relationship management software
• Enterprise software – solutions for large companies like product lifecycle management tools and enterprise resource planning software

Top products

Integrated HR/payroll

• ASR HR Professional
• Iris Business Suite
• MidlandHR Trent

Enterprise HR

• Northgate
• SAP
• Vizual HR.net

Payroll

• Moneysoft Payroll Manager
• Pegasus Opera II Payroll
• QuickBooks Payroll

Learning management systems

• Adobe Creative Suite/Captivate
• CS Group Consensus
• E2Train Kallidus Learning Suite

Talent management

• Networx
• Plateau
• Taleo

Small business accounts

• Mamut Business
• MYOB
• QuickBooks

Mid-range financials

• Access Dimensions
• Exchequer by IRIS Enterprise
• Pegasus Opera II

Enterprise financials

• Infor FMS SunSystems
• Microsoft Dynamics NAV
• PS Financials

Tax & practice

• Digita
• Drummohr Tax Assistant
• VT Accounts/Transactions

Paperless office

• Business Work Ware
• Invu
• Version One

Web-hosted accounts

• Kashflow
• NetSuite
• Sage 50 Accounts Online

Business intelligence (BI)/Corporate performance management

• Cognos
• Hyperion
• Business Objects

Reseller of the year

• Armstrong Consutlants
• HBP Systems
• JMC IT

Excel-based application

• Pegasus XRL/SunSystems Vision (Infor)
• Rugged Logic
• XLCubed

On-demand CRM

• NetSuite
• Sage CRM
• Salesforce.com

On-premise CRM

• Front Range
• Maximiser
• Sage CRM

Small business CRM

• ACT! By Sage
• Microsoft CRM
• Salesforce.com

Mid-range CRM

• Pivotal
• Salesforce.com
• SAP

Enterprise CRM

• Onyx
• Oracle
• SAP

Events

Software Business 2007 - http://www.softwarebusinessonline.com/sb_conf07_index.htm
Better Software Conference & EXP, June 9-12, 2008, Las Vegas, NV - http://www.sqe.com/BetterSoftwareConf/
The 2008 Software Industry Conference, July 17-19 2008, Boston, Massachusetts - http://www.sic.org/

Communities

• http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/ The business of software blog
• http://bytescout.com/blog/?cat=14 Bytescout Software Blog - Business Software
• http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/ Business blog consulting

Further reading

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_software Article about business software on Wikipedia
• http://bsa.org/ Business software alliance
• http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/hub.mspx Microsoft Small Business Center