Office Suites

An office suite is a collection of applications bundled together, intended to be used by knowledge workers in an organization. It is used to simplify the tasks and processes of office workers and increase their productivity.

An office suite is also known as an office application suite or office productivity software.

An office suite is a collection of software created by the same vendor and designed to be used for routine tasks within an organization. Typically an office suite includes applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, email, note-taking, database, collaboration and other related types of software. In most cases, each application in the office suite can be installed separately and all applications within the suite support interoperability between each other.

Existing office suites contain wide range of various components. Most typically, the base components include:

• Word processor
• Spreadsheet
• Presentation program

Other components of office suites include:

• Database software
• Graphics suite (raster graphics editor, vector graphics editor, image viewer)
• Desktop publishing software
• Formula editor
• Diagramming software
• Email client
• Communication software
• Personal information manager
• Notetaking software
• Groupware
• Project management software
• Web log analysis software