In computing, a horizontal application is a software package designed to be used by many different kinds of organizations or individual users, such as office automation, word processing or bookkeeping software.These general-purpose programs address the needs of many people. Marketing, Piping, Finance, Accounting and Management are the main areas which use horizontal applications. In contrast with vertical application.
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