This week something that was very clear to me was the difference between Horizontal and Vertical applications. While both are applications created to help people do specific things on the computer, they are different in the amount of people and industries they help.
Horizontal applications are software programs that are used across many different industries for many different people. Some good examples of these are applications like adobe photoshop and Microsoft word. Photoshop is used by people in many different industries for many different tasks. The same is true of Microsoft word.
On the other hand, Vertical applications are software programs that are designed to meet specific needs of one specific business marker. Some good examples of vertical applications are restaurant ordering systems. An application that is made for a specific restaurant will not work anywhere but in that specific restaurant. This is why it is a vertical application. Another example of this is GRU, gainesville's utility companies, software that checks meters and takes service requests. This application was created specifically for GRU.
Until Next Time,
Zack
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