Software suite
A software suite is a collection of computer programs 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]
- Designed to interface with each other
- Helps the learning curve of the user
- Not all purchased features are always used by the user
- Takes a significant amount of disk space, 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