Software suite

A software suite or application suite is a collection of computer programs —usually application software or programming software— of related functionality, often sharing a more-or-less common user interface and some ability to smoothly exchange data with each other.

Features

Advantages

• Less cost than buying individual packages
• All have similar GUI
• Work well together
• Extend learning curves of user

Disadvantages

• All features not used
• takes a lot of disk space (bloatware)
• Lots of work to maintain.

Types

• Office suite
• Internet suite
• Graphics suite
• Integrated development environment

See also

• Runtime environment
• Application software