Applied Business
Applied Business
: 3BSTM-A
SOFTWARE TOOLS CLASSIFICATION:
1. PLANNING TOOLS
ClickUp - is designed to help teams plan and track projects. As such, its features revolve around
the ability to break big projects down into smaller elements. ITs feature set has grown larger
and is now one of the most feature-rich planning tools.
• Plan tasks in projects but use different views (Board, list, box) to understand
who is working on what & the amount of work they have
• Create a doc to share project details
• Share and map out workflows with Whiteboards
• Use the dashboard to understand how projects are progressing & who is
working on what
• Create Gantt charts/timelines to see if work is on time and on schedule
2. EDITING TOOLS
Ginger - offers an innovative program that integrates with your browser to make sure you never
make grammatical or spelling errors. The software follows you everywhere you want/need it to
online, so even if you’re writing a Facebook post, you’ll get notified of mistakes as you make
them so you can correct them.
It’s useful for content writers who need to produce a large amount of content on a variety of
online platforms.
3. CHANGE MANAGEMENT TOOLS
StarTeam- is a change management tool developed by MicroFocus that helps software
development companies improve their delivery process. This tool is an excellent choice for
companies that employ a remote workforce. StartTeam's collaborative environment allows
managers to review changes to features, source codes and other software assets remotely. It
also makes it easy to create flexible workflows that improve productivity. Finally, StarTeam
allows managers to create processes and requirements, which ensures the quality of their
team's work. Some benefits of the StarTeam change management tool include:
• Impact analysis results
• Change alerts
• Cental data warehouse
• Customizable tracking features
4. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
SolarWinds Corporation - is an American company that develops software for businesses to help
manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure.
5. PROTOTYPING
Figma - is an all-in-one design tool, handling everything from wireframing, prototyping and UI
design to collaboration, design system management, and developer handoff.
6. METHOD SUPPORT
7. LANGUAGE PROCESSING
The Natural Language Toolkit, or more commonly NLTK - is a suite of libraries and programs for
symbolic and statistical natural language processing for English written in the Python
programming language. It supports classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and
semantic reasoning functionalities.
8. PROGRAM ANALYSIS TOOLS
NVivo- is a computer software program that allows researchers to manage, analyze, and
visualize qualitative data and documents systematically and individually. It is user-friendly for
researchers who are familiar with coding and qualitative data analysis strategies.
9. TESTING TOOL
Testpad - is a simpler and more accessible manual test tool that prioritizes pragmatism over
process. Instead of managing cases one at a time, it uses checklist-inspired test plans that can
be adapted to a wide range of styles including Exploratory testing, the manual side of Agile,
syntax highlighted BDD, and even traditional test case management.
10. DEBUGGING TOOLS
WinDbg - is a multipurpose debugger for the Microsoft Windows computer operating system,
distributed by Microsoft. Debugging is the process of finding and resolving errors in a system; in
computing it also includes exploring the internal operation of software as a help to development. It
can be used to debug user mode applications, device drivers, and the operating system itself
in kernel mode.
11. DOCUMENTATION
Nuclino - is a good way to organize information within teams into workspaces. You can use
Nuclino to create beautiful software documentation for your employees or your customers.
Workspaces can be public or private. You can bring your content to life with text, images,
videos, files, tasks, embeds, code blocks, and more
12. REENGINEERING TOOLS
Benchmarking - Businesses can use benchmarking in their operations to measure themselves
against internal or external standards. Benchmarking can be used to measure internal progress,
performance against competitors and how your processes rank against world-class
organizations.