Database Management System Software

* Oracle

* IBM’s DB2

* Microsoft Access

* Microsoft SQL Server

* MySQL

* FileMaker

Presentation Software

• Also called as presentation graphics

• A type of application program used to arrange the sequences of words and pictures in our presentation to tell a story or help in a speech or public presentation of information to held more effectively

Examples of presentation software:

* Lotus Freelance Graphics

* Adobe Persuasion

* Astound

* Asymetrix Compel

* Harvard Graphics

Information Technology can play important role in the world today

* Information Technology is related to studying, designing and developing the information related to computers. 

* This field is growing at a very fast pace over the last few years and according to successful and well known people in the Information Technology sector, this growth is expected to remain stable. 

IT has become the lifeblood of how business is done.

* There are many businesses which are in need of the software packages for satisfying their operational as well as functional needs.

* Information technology is useful in ensuring the smooth functioning of all the departments in a company such as the human resource department, finance department, manufacturing department and also in security related purposes.

* Information technology plays an important role in easily solving the mathematical problems and also in the project management system.

* Information technology has a great use in the automated production of sensitive information, automated up gradation of the important business processes and the automated streamlining of the various business processes.

* It has also played an important role in the areas of communication and automated administration of entire systems.

*Importance of information technology in management is quite significant.

* It helps the managers in adapting to the new business processes and also to predict the possible impact of new technologies

Importance of information technology in educational sector is well known.

* Information technology helps the students as well as the teachers in studying the course material easily because of fast access.

* Studying the subjects with the help of online libraries and dictionaries has  made grasping and increasing the knowledge easy for the students.

Spreadsheet Features

* mouse cursor
* Active cell 
* Menu bar
* Toolbar
** FormulaFormula barbar
* Sheet tabs
* Vertical scroll bar 

The common features:

* graphicalgraphical userser interfaceinterface (GUI)
* icons
* windows
* Menus
* toolbars


Main features of basic
application software :


* word processing programs
* spreadsheet programs
* database programs
* graphics programs

Spreadsheet

Program designed specifically for processing data in tabular form. 


Organize and graph numerical data such as financial and budget reports.


Ex. Microsoft Excel, Apple iWork’s Number and Corel Quattro Pro. 


Features: worksheet, rows and columns, cellcell, functions and etc.

Word processor

Widely used software tools that create text‐based documents.

Used to create memos, letters, faxes, newsletters, manuals, brochures and repports.

Ex. Microsoft Word, Apple Pages and CorelCorel WordPerfectWordPerfect.

Features: word wrap, editing, spelling and grammar checker, font, and etc.

Types of basic application software

Word Processors

Spreadsheet Database

Database Management Systemystem 

Presentation Graphics