Once upon a time in the good old days, selecting your SMB software package simply meant deciding between Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel for spreadsheets or going with WordPerfect for Word processing. Today however, it's a whole other ball game. There's an entire galaxy of software applications designed for pretty much any function you could imagine.

This massive volume of options and choices means that you're more than likely to find the ideal app or program that does exactly what your business needs. But on the flip side, it also means you'll have to carry out truckloads of research and filtering to find that elusive, 'perfect app'.

If you're in the market for business software, some important factors to consider include:

Ease of use
Quality of support
Functionality
Integration options
Scalability
Price
OS compatibility
So even with a hearty list of apps that meet these particular needs, it will still take a mind-blowing amount of time and effort to compile data sets that can compare and contrast all of them. And that's where software review sites come in with a massive undertaking.