A software publisher is a company specialized in the Conception and the development of Logiciel S, and which delegates the implementation of it to services companies.

The term editor in French language should not be confused with the word English in editor , which applies to the process of edition: in text editor , in HTML editor … the equivalent in English of a software publisher is.

Activity

Certain software publishers can propose software " standard" , skeletal according to the Need S for the customer S, and comprising modules corresponding to the great functions of the Undertaken, such:

• General ledger
• Accounts receivable (see )
• Accounts payable (see )
• Management of the fixed assets
• human Stock management (Pay)
• Production control
• Management of the client relationship
• Management of the purchases (See )
• Management of the products

This software is then called Progiciel S, contraction of the words software. When these software packages have vocation to cover all the activity of the Entreprise, they are called Business packages integrated .

A software publisher can in certain cases delegate the implementation of his software packages to others services companies and of data-processing engineering, which takes care of certain stages, such: the Integration of system, the Parameter setting of the modules, the development of the specific parts, the Formation or the Led change.

Examples of software publishers

• SAP, of the company SAP AG

• Oracle Application, of the company Oracle Corporation
• Wise PeopleSoft
• Microsoft
• Business Objects
• Dassault Systems
• Borland
• Taliance
• Ilog

See too

• data-processing Engineering

• Business package integrated
• Computing activities
• Services company in data-processing engineering
• Data-processing SYNTEC: Professional room of the software firms
• AFDEL
• MUNCI: M ouvement for a U nion N ationale and C ollégiale of the I nformaticians