Software suite

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A software suite (also known as an application suite) is a collection of computer programs (application software, or programming software) of related functionality, sharing a similar user interface and the ability to easily exchange data with each other.

Features

Advantages

• Less costly than buying individual packages
• Identical or very similar graphical user interface (GUI)
• Designed to interface with each other
• Helps the learning curve of the user

Disadvantages

• Not all purchased features are always used by the user
• Takes a significant amount of disk space (bloatware), as compared to buying only the needed packages
• Requires effort to use the packages together

Types

• Office suites, such as Microsoft Office
• Internet suites
• Graphics suite, such as Adobe Creative Cloud
• IDEs, such as Eclipse, and Visual Studio

See also

• Application software
• Package manager
• Runtime environment

References