Reference management software does not do the same job as a bibliographic database, which tries to list all articles published in a particular discipline or group of disciplines; examples are those provided by Ovid Technologies, the Institute for Scientific Information or mono disciplinary learned societies like the American Psychological Association. These databases are large and have to be housed on major server installations. Reference management software collects a much smaller database, of the publications that have been used or are likely to be used by a particular author or group, and such a database can easily be housed on an individual's personal computer.

Software Value Management helps companies maximize the value of their software. Software Value Management is a category of software products that is focused on maximizing the value that software vendors and their enterprise customers receive from each software application. Once an application is developed by the engineering department, vendors use software value management tools to maximize its revenue potential. These tools include installation authoring as well as licensing tools that help the publisher flexibly package, price and protect their products. Their enterprise customers use software value management tools to maximize the productivity that they get from the software they purchase. These tools enable corporate IT staff to repackage applications, resolve potential conflicts, optimize license purchases and manage updates. Software Value Management tools make life easier for software developers, freeing them to concentrate on developing and releasing software, and not worrying about pricing, packaging, licensing, deploying, and updating their releases.


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