System Application

System Application applies the power of a particular computing platform or system software to a particular purpose.

Application software is contrasted with system software and middleware, which manage and integrate a computer’s capabilities, but typically do not directly apply them in the performance of tasks that benefit the user. A simple, if imperfect, analogy in the world of hardware would be the relationship of an electric light bulb (an application) to an electric power generation plant (a system). The power station merely generates electricity, not itself of any real use until harnessed to an application like the electric light that performs a service that benefits the user.