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.
Famous quotes containing the words horizontal and/or application:
“I am a sort of martyr, as you see,
A horizontal monument to patience.
The calves of waitresses parade about
My helpless head upon this sodden floor.
Well, I am down again, but not yet out.
O sweet frustrations, I shall be back for more.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)