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Business Suite

Here is our recommended suite of applications for small business Mac OS X users. Most applications are also available for Windows.

	Basic	Intermediate	Advanced
Word Processing	TextEdit	Pages	Word
Spreadsheet	Excel	Excel	Excel
Database	FileMaker Pro	FileMaker Pro	FileMaker Pro
Contact Manager	Address Book	Entourage	Now Contact or DayLite
Calendar	iCal	Entourage	Now Up-to-Date or DayLite
Sales	DayLite	DayLite	DayLite
Draw	PowerPoint	Keynote	OmniGraffle
Presentations	PowerPoint	Keynote	Keynote
World Wide Web	Safari	Safari	Firefox
Web Page Design	iWeb	Dreamweaver	Dreamweaver / Fireworks
E-mail	Mail	Entourage	Entourage
FTP	Mac OS X	Mac OS X	Mac OS X
Accounting	QuickBooks Pro for Mac	AccountEdge	Intacct (online)
Page Layout	Pages	OmniGraffle	InDesign or QuarkXPress
Portable Documents	Preview or Adobe Reader	Acrobat Standard	Acrobat Professional
Project Scheduling	Entourage	DayLite	FastTrack Schedule
Digital Music	iTunes	iTunes	iTunes
Digital Photography	iPhoto	Photoshop Elements	Photoshop
Digital Video authoring	iMovie and iDVD	Final Cut Studio	Final Cut Studio
Windows	Parallels Desktop for Mac	Parallels Desktop for Mac	Parallels Desktop for Mac
Fax	Mac OS X	Mac OS X	Mac OS X
Intranet Web Server	Personal Web Sharing	Mac OS X Server	Mac OS X Server
Intranet File Server	Personal File Sharing	Mac OS X Server	Mac OS X Server

The Basic category features the minimum applications needed to accomplish the listed tasks.

The Intermediate category features the mainstream set of applications for most business users. These could also be considered specialty alternatives to the functions in the Basic suite.

The Advanced category features high-end applications that offer extra features for use in specialty business applications.

 

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