Small business software
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Small business software has been for many years any software that a small business
owner could appropriate to get jobs done. Over the past few years, however, the most pressing issue for small businesses has been finding a single integrated solution that can manage their office. Therefore, instead of using disparate software applications each with their own proprietary database
s, Small Medium Business are looking for a cenral repository to store this information. Therefore, instead of using separate software for contact management, email management, document management
, project collaboration, telephony
, scan and more, they are now looking for a single solution that can manage these communication activities.
To meet this demand, the software industry
has begun creating such solutions, however, most of them only offer a subset of a fully integrated solution for a small medium business. To date, there have only been a few integrated solutions created that can actually perform all of these features and truly offer a single integrated solution. Essentially, the reason they are fully integrated and offer such rich feature sets is because they are originally designed for a large enterprise company and are then sold at the Small Medium Business level.
Small business
A small business is a business that is privately owned and operated, with a small number of employees and relatively low volume of sales. Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships...
owner could appropriate to get jobs done. Over the past few years, however, the most pressing issue for small businesses has been finding a single integrated solution that can manage their office. Therefore, instead of using disparate software applications each with their own proprietary database
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
s, Small Medium Business are looking for a cenral repository to store this information. Therefore, instead of using separate software for contact management, email management, document management
Document management system
A document management system is a computer system used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. It is usually also capable of keeping track of the different versions created by different users . The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management...
, project collaboration, telephony
Telephony
In telecommunications, telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other....
, scan and more, they are now looking for a single solution that can manage these communication activities.
To meet this demand, the software industry
Software industry
The software industry includes businesses involved in the development, maintenance and publication of computer software using any business model...
has begun creating such solutions, however, most of them only offer a subset of a fully integrated solution for a small medium business. To date, there have only been a few integrated solutions created that can actually perform all of these features and truly offer a single integrated solution. Essentially, the reason they are fully integrated and offer such rich feature sets is because they are originally designed for a large enterprise company and are then sold at the Small Medium Business level.