Nobody can honestly say that their successful business thrives solely on their personal enterprise; most owe their success to the support that they get from their Business Software Applications and Web Support systems. Here are the top twenty of those that you can use for your business.

1.Intuit QuickBooks Pro This is flow chart reporting software which is as close to that the small businesses can get to financial management. It is the easiest and the best way to transfer their financial books to the computer files. They perform almost all the actions of cutting checks and billing for clients etc.

2.Mozy This is one of the most reliable online back up services that is available to the business world. They help you to archive whatever important that you find on the Internet and would like to keep safe. All that is required is the files to be selected and Mozy does the task of backing it up in bulk or selectively.

3.Word Press Every business in this upcoming world of technology needs a blog, and this is one of the best business blogging tools available. This will help you and your business team to keep the world updated with product news etc. It is actually simple and easy to use.

4.Sunbird This is one of the best calendar systems that the Internet provides to the business world, and it works great for scheduling. It has a clean display for days, weeks and months and also has the feature of emailing your calendar; so that you could you can make the calendar events public if you so wish.

5.Vyew This is an excellent business software tool that implements collaboration. This helps colleagues form your business team get together on the Internet and work together on a project. This is a kind of Web conferencing where a board can be created for uploading documents and sharing it and opening it to discussion.

6.Google Docs this applies to all the different services that Google offers for easy file sharing and collaborating. To use this of course, all the team members working on the business project will have to have Google applications installed. These are easy to use and free of cost.

7.FileMaker Pro This is an excellent database program service for a small time business. They offer high end live SQL data support features and easy ways to publish information on the Web. They also offer some templates that are easy to use and makes everybody’s job much easier

8.Yahoo Small Business This service provides e – commerce features such as templates and wizards to help manage material as well a credit card processing and tax collecting. They are perfect for small time businesses to handle and also provide the services of web designs.

9.Thunderbird This is the most cost effective but efficient replacement for Microsoft office and Outlook Express. It offers all the features including message tagging and is one of the speediest software available on the internet to do the job.

10.Zimbra Desktop This is another alternative for the Outlook Express and Office which is Yahoo powered. It is basically an email manager for business workers but it has a great feature of working offline. It includes everything that small time businessmen would need, a to-do list, efficient calendars etc.

11.Topica This is one of the best online tools available for email marketing. This is of course very different from what spam is, as it providing marketing for the business to customers who opt for information on your business. IT is the best option for a small time business to have contrary to running a whole mailing list by themselves, and it is affordable.

12.Pidgin This is a software tool for instant messaging. This provides you with services for running several instant messaging networks, to log into the, simultaneously. Therefore a businessman can be in touch with several clients at once. It supports several instant messaging services together.

13.Zoho Invoice As the name suggests, this is a great service provider for invoicing. It is the near perfect Web based solution for attending to billing requirements. You can create and then manage customer accounts and records, and then you can create invoices out of those and then print them or mail them.

14.SoonR Desktop This comes in very handy during crisis situations when you desperately need access to a file or some data on your PC, but you are far away from it and there is neither any other computer near by. This application lets you connect to your own PC through your mobile phone.

15.Microsoft Office Every business would need this, whether they like it or not, or whether they know how to use it yet or not. All their applications are helpful and come in handy at some point of time. The services they provide are endless.

16.Basecamp This is the perfect application to help build complicated timelines for projects, maintain a to-do list and also for sharing documents and data among team members through the Web. It helps let all the team members’ activities known to each other.

17.LogMeln This is another tool that works great for remote accessing and syncing to your PC with other computers with an Internet browser.

18.Syncplicity This is ideal for those business men who work with several computers throughout the day, it might get confusing to keep a track of what data and files are on which computer. This helps to sync all the PC’s to each other.

19.Avira Antivir This is a basic and low cost anti virus package used by most small time companies to protect their computers. This offers protection however to individual PC’s for free.

20.Linkedln This has proved to be a precious tool for all business enterprises for finding service providers, contractors and outsourcing partners. They also provide with free business advices.