An umbrella term for software that is designed for a specific application or niche. What is specialty software one day often becomes a mainstream application later on. See special. THIS DEFINITION ...

A hosted application is simply software that runs on someone else's infrastructure instead of on-premise. You access these applications over the Internet with a web-based user interface. They are ...

Consuming software as a service has become the dominant trend for enterprise applications over the past decade. Here’s how SaaS took over the world.