onShore, as part of our completeIT^® solutions, continues to provide a wide range of software products as a service to our clients. We have been working with Partners, whom we select for their best-of-breed products, for over eight years. We continually evaluate their applications and services to make certain they fit our profile for best-of-breed products. Software applications generally fall into three main categroies; Utility, Productivity and Graphic Design.

Utility applications
provide a service to the network. These applications can be used for virus protection, employee internet management, back-up services, email service and groupware. Some examples include:

Sophos Anti-Virus
Websense
Microsoft Antigen
Retrospect
Microsoft Exchange
PostFix
SquirrelMail
AppleMail

Productivity applications
usually refer to products which assist employees in their day-to-day functions. These applications are focused on providing spreadsheet, word processing, presentation, database and email funtions. Some examples include:

Microsoft Office
StarOffice
OpenOffice
AppleWorks
Microsoft Outlook
Eudora
Mail.app