Technopreneur: Software Products & Applications

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Software product management is the process of managing software that is built and implemented as a product, taking into account life-cycle considerations and generally with a wide audience. It is the discipline and business process which governs a product from its inception to the market or customer delivery and service in order to generate biggest possible value to the business . This is in contrast to software that is delivered in an ad-hoc manner, typically to a limited clientele, e.g. service.
 

 Backup & Bar Code
 Build Management
 Business Management
 Business Drawing
 Communications
 Configuration Management
 Consultants
 Data Administration
 Desktop Customization
 Device Drivers
 Diagnostics
 Disk Management
 Document Imaging
 Document Management & Electronics
 File Management
 Freeware
 Graphic Designing & Human Resources

 Industry-Specific

 Information Retrieval

 Internet

 Intranet

 Marketing

 Networking

 Object-Oriented

 Office Suites

 Online Training

 Operating Systems

 Project Management

 System Management

 Software Testing Services

 Transaction Processing

 Workflow Management

Software products

A software product is typically a single application or suite of applications built by a software company to be used by *many* customers, businesses or consumers. The mass-market notion differs from custom software built for the use of a single customer by consulting firms like IBM Global Services or Accenture.

Examples of business software products include the Oracle 10g database by Oracle Corporation, SAP R/3 ERP software by SAP AG, QuickBooks by Intuit, etc.

Examples of consumer software products include Microsoft Office by Microsoft, TurboTax by Intuit. 

Since the late 1990s, many software products have been offered as a service, so that the customers - businesses or end consumers - run the same application without installing the software on their computers. Examples include Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software by Salesforce.com, consumer shopping comparison software by Shopping.com, various web search tools offered by Google, Yahoo!, and the auction marketplace by eBay. 

Even though these applications are not packaged in media that can be touched and felt, they are software products nonetheless, and require the same product management rigor as packaged software do. In fact, they do require more rigor since the product manager must now be concerned with operational concerns such as service availability and third-party relations.

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Wikipedia.