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### Analytics
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[Analytics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytics) is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data.
Event scheduling, reservation, and appointment management software.
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### Bookmarks and Link Sharing
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Software which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share [bookmarks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmark_(digital)) of web documents.
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### Calendar & Contacts - CalDAV or CardDAV Servers
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[CalDAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV) and [CardDAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CardDAV) protocol servers [Electronic calendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendaring_software) and [address book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_book) and [contact management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_manager).
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### Calendar & Contacts - CalDAV or CardDAV Web-based Clients
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[CalDAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV) and [CardDAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CardDAV) protocol web clients/interfaces.
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### Communication - Custom Communication Systems
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[Communication software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_software) used to provide remote access to systems and exchange files and messages in text, audio and/or video formats between different computers or users, using their own custom procols.
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Simple deployment of [E-mail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email) servers, e.g. for inexperienced or impatient admins.
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### Communication - Email - Mail Delivery Agents
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[Mail Delivery Agents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_delivery_agent) (MDAs) - [IMAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol)/[POP3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol) server software.
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### Communication - Email - Mail Transfer Agents
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[Mail Transfer Agents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent) (MTAs) - [SMTP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol) servers.
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### Communication - Email - Mailing Lists and Newsletters
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[Mailing list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailing_list) servers and mass mailing software - one message to many recipients.
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Software for submission of [abstracts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_management) and preparation/management of academic conferences.
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### Content Management Systems (CMS)
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[Content Management Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system) offer a practical way to setup a website with many features, using third party plugins, themes and functionality that are easy to add and customize.
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### DNS
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[DNS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System) servers and management tools.
A [document management system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system) (DMS) is a system used to receive, track, manage and store documents and reduce paper.
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### Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software
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[Institutional repository](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository) and [digital library](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library) management software.
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### Document Management - Integrated Library Systems (ILS)
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An [integrated library system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_library_system) is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed.
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[Federated identity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_identity) and [authentication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_authentication) software.
A [news aggregator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator), also termed a feed aggregator, feed reader, news reader, [RSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) reader, is an application that aggregates web content such as newspapers/blogs/vlogs/podcasts in one location for easy viewing.
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### File Transfer & Synchronization
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[File transfer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_transfer), [sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing) and [synchronization software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization) software.
[Object storage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage) is a computer data storage that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks.
[Peer-to-peer file sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_file_sharing) is the distribution and [sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing) of digital media using [peer-to-peer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer) (P2P) networking technology.
### File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload
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Simplified file servers for sharing of one-time/short-lived/temporary files, providing single-click or [drag-and-drop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_and_drop) updload functionality.
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Multiplayer game servers and [browser games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_game).
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### Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels
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Utilities for managing game servers.
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### Genealogy
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[Genealogy software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_software) used to record, organize, and publish genealogical data.
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### Groupware
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Collaborative software or [groupware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software) is designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. Groupware often regroups multiple services such as file sharing, calendar/events management, address books... in a single, integrated application.
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### Human Resources Management (HRM)
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A [human resources management system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management_system) combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of [human resources](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resources), business processes and data.
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### Internet of Things (IoT)
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[Internet of Things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things) describes physical objects with sensors, processing ability, software, and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devicesover the Internet.
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### Knowledge Management Tools
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[Knowledge management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information.
[Streaming media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media) is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements.
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### Media Streaming - Audio Streaming
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[Audio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio) streaming tools and software.
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### Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming
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[Multimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia) streaming tools and software.
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[Video](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video) streaming tools and software.
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### Money, Budgeting & Management
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[Money management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_management) and budgeting sofware and tools.
An [office suite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_office_suites) is a collection of productivity software usually containing at least a word processor, spreadsheet and a presentation program.
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### Password Managers
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A [password manager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_manager) allows users to store, generate, and manage their passwords for local applications and online services.
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A [pastebin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin) is a type of online content-hosting service used for sharing and storing code and text.
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### Personal Dashboards
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Dashboards for accessing information and applications.
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### Photo and Video Galleries
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A [gallery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Software) is software that helps the user publish or share photos, pictures, videos or other digital media.
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### Polls and Events
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Software for organising [polls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_poll) and [events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event).
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### Proxy
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A [proxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server) is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource.
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### Recipe Management
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Software and tools for managing [recipes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recipe).
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### Remote Access
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[Remote desktop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_desktop_software) and [SSH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell) software for remote management of computer systems.
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### Resource Planning
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Software and tools to help with [resource and supply planning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_planning).
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Software and tools to help with [enterprise resource and supply planning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning).
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A [search engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_(computing)) is an [information retrieval system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval) designed to help find information stored on a computer system. This includes [Web search engines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine).
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Software for easy installation, management and configuration of self-hosted services and applications.
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### Software Development
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[Software development](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development) is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components.
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[API management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_management) is the process of creating and publishing [application programming interfaces (APIs)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API), enforcing their usage policies, controlling access, nurturing the subscriber community, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporting on performance.
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[Continuous integration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) and [Continuous deployment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_deployment) software and tools.
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An [integrated development environment (IDE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.
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[Localization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization) is the proccess of adapting code and software to other languages.
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Tools and software for [software project management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_project_management).
Tools and software for [software testing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing).
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[Static site generators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_template_system#Static_site_generators) generate full static HTML websites based on raw data, plain text files and a set of templates.
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[Uptime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime) is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the percentage of time a machine, typically a computer, has been working and available.
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### Ticketing
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[Helpdesk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_desk_software), [bug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_tracking_system) and [issue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_tracking_system) tracking software to help the tracking of user requests, bugs and missing features.
[Time-tracking software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-tracking_software) is a category of computer software that allows its employees to record time spent on tasks or projects.
[URL shortening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening) is the action of shortening a [URL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator) to make it substantially shorter and still direct to the required page.
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A [virtual private network (VPN)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network.
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A [web server](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server) is a piece of software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via [HTTP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol) (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant [HTTPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPSs).
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### Wikis
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A [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) is a publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly using a web browser.