Information Oasis provides industry-focused software to government, private and commercial market to meet customer’s business goals.
- System Software
- Application Software
- Utility Software
We are beyond than others, with our professional expertise and years of experience, our software capability provides solutions that fit customer and market needs.
Software is a set of instructions, data or programs used to operate computers and execute specific tasks. Opposite of hardware, which describes the physical aspects of a computer, the software is a generic term used to refer to applications, scripts and programs that run on a device.
Types of Software
What is Software: Computer software, or simply software, is a kind of programs that enable a user to perform some specific task or used to operate a computer. It directs all the peripheral devices on the computer system – what to do and how to perform a task. PC Software plays the role of mediator between the user and computer hardware. Without Software, a user can’t perform any task in a digital computer.
The system software is a collection of one or more programs used to control and coordinate the hardware and other application software. Generally, the system software may perform the following functions:
- Communicates with hardware devices. Controls and monitors the proper use of various hardware resources like CPU, memory, peripheral devices like monitor, printer etc.
- Supports the execution and development of other application software.
- Few examples of system software are:
- Operating system
- Programming language translators
- Communication software
- Compiler and Interpreters
- Command-line shell
Application software is a collection of one or more programs used to solve a specific task.
Generally, software used in the banking industry, airline/railway reservation, generation of telephone or electricity bills etc. all fall under application software.
Few examples of application software are:
- Word processing software
- Spreadsheet software
- Database software
- Education software
- Entertainment software
Utility software is a collection of one or more programs that helps the user in system maintenance tasks and in performing tasks of routine nature. Utility programs help the users in disk formatting, data compression, data backup, scanning for viruses etc.
Few examples of utility software are:
- Anti-virus
- Registry cleaners
- Disk defragmenters
- Data backup utility
- Disk cleaners