The Free and Open Productivity Suite: Open Office

Lets say, you are getting almost all functionalities of Microsoft Office suite that you normally use in your computers for FREE. Yes, we are serious about this, what if you get these functionalities at absolutely no cost. And not just this, you also get to use it for as long as you want to, without any Ads, no Pop-ups. Its free in its actual essence.

And why is it free?
Open Office, as the name suggests is an open source code which was initiated as an open source project and today is being updated regularly with code being written from contributors all across the world. This gives you an advantage of having a robust code which has the uniqueness of not just a single team of coding champions, but actually people from all around the world who are coming up with new ideas to enhance the product offering.

Great, so what all can Open Office do for me?

To put it simply, Open Office is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.

Lets put it this way, you would have used MS Office till date while making documents on MS Word, Spreadsheets on MS Excel, Presentations on MS PowerPoint, now all of that comes free to you.

OpenOffice Word Editor:

OpenOffice SpreadSheet Application

OpenOffice Powerpoint Application

OpenOffice Draw Application (like paintbrush)

OpenOffice Database Application

You would surely have realized by now that OpenOffice is a powerful software suite. Office productivity is well handled by this free and powerful software suite.

Fantastic, how do I get this Software?

No need to rush and buy a CD from the nearest software store, all you need to do is click on this LINK and the download will begin. Since its a big application, the download may take time, depending upon your internet connection.

How does it help my business?

For Small and Medium Enterprises the OpenOffice suite is a boon. While it is free and being updated regularly, on the go, it is always available to businesses for free. When you start a small business or while you are an emerging business, it will obviously be difficult for you to buy licences of major software products which are essential for your business. Since this software is free, you can download it on every system that you have in your company.

There are many such online platforms available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!