FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software maker SAP posted quarterly profit at the low end of forecasts, hit by weak sales of its traditional packaged software and a rapid shift by customers to ...

Brio Technology will today announce a major revamp that marks the company's first step towards providing packaged software applications. The business intelligence firm is changing its name to Brio ...

An application program developed for sale to the general public. Packaged software is designed to appeal to a large audience of users, and although the programs may be tailored to a user's taste by ...

The days of buying packaged software loaded onto CDs are numbered. Today, Microsoft quietly drove another nail into the coffin of packaged software by launching the Microsoft Store on the Web. After ...

Everyone takes it for granted that the natural order of business is to sell software just as though it were a physical product, shipping it out as a manufactured item and charging a one-time perpetual ...

Adobe’s Scott Morris, senior director of product marketing for Creative Cloud, said “We have no current plans to release another perpetual release of the CS tools and suites. Creative Cloud is going ...

The packaged software industry designs, develops, and publishes computer software programs for retail and wholesale distribution. Although some programs are marketed for specialized or technical end ...

Motherboard has an interesting look at the somewhat surprising survival of physical software in shrink-wrapped boxes, which continues to account for roughly a third of software sales. This is true ...

Microsoft's Office will continue to sell as both packaged software and subscription service. The company also updated its Office Web Apps to work with Android. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works ...

A bag with SAP logo is pictured before the company's annual general meeting in Mannheim, Germany, May 20, 2015. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach By Harro Ten Wolde FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business ...