Synchronous, global communication with voice, text, and images is relatively inexpensive. Cloud storage or remote access to a server enables simultaneous access to archived data, information, and services. Multimedia-oriented and communication-intensive software programs increase business productivity.

  • word processing,
  • databases, spreadsheets,
  • email,
  • web publishing,
  • presentation applications,
  • graphics and image processing,
  • multimedia authoring, and
  • real-time audio and video-conferencing.