Advertising and marketing services providers assess clients needs, develop strategies to reach markets, create branding plans, design advertisement schemes and deliver marketing media. List brokers are included in this category. Public relations.
Application service providers (ASP) or software as a service providers (SaaS) are companies that provide software or other computer-based services over the Internet from a data center. ASP is sometimes known as software on demand.
Bug tracking software enables developers to use breakpoint and stepping methods to troubleshoot source code written for computers and embedded systems. These stand-alone computer applications are not part of an integrated development environment (IDE).
Communications and network software is used for the setup and management of digital communication networks such as LAN and WAN computer networks, electronic mail, FAX, audio and video networks, wireless communication systems, etc.
Office suite software packages are collections of programs that are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface, and can typically interact with each other in ways that an operating system wouldn’t necessarily allow.
Online directories list companies on web sites that focus on specific industries or segments. Search engines provide targeted web results based on keywords and other advanced criteria.
Search engine software is used to index information on a website or intranet. Algorithms help users search a large corpus of data by keyword or a set of terms. The results are then presented in a prioritized list.
Web browsers are software applications that allow users interact with objects (e.g. text, images, videos) by retrieving, presenting, and traversing the information on a web page downloaded from the World Wide Web or a local area network.