{{Infobox company
, logo = Ability plus software-logo.png
, name = Ability Plus Software
, type = Private
, foundation = 1991{{cite web, url=http://www.ability.com/home/about.php, title=Ability Plus Software History
, location =
London
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England
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United Kingdom
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, industry =
Computer software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
, products =
Ability Office
Ability Office is an office suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, modules for presentation and photo or image editing ...
Ability Photoalbum
Ability Office is an office suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, modules for presentation and photo or image editing ...
Ability Draw
Ability Office is an office suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, modules for presentation and photo or image editing ...
, homepage www.ability.com
Ability Plus Software is a software development company founded in 1991 for the purposes of developing and marketing Ability-branded products:
Ability Office
Ability Office is an office suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, modules for presentation and photo or image editing ...
Ability Plus
Ability Plus is an integrated software package written for DOS in the early 1980s. Development ceased in 1995 with the last build made in November 1997. It was succeeded by Ability Office on Windows, described below.
Ability combined write, sprea ...
— an integrated package running under DOS.
Beginnings
Ability Plus Software was formed in
London
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United Kingdom
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, shortly after Migent (UK) ceased to trade in 1991. It acquired the source code for the Ability Plus package, and with some of the ex-Migent staff and the help of LANware Inc, which had acquired sales and marketing rights in the US from Migent Inc, began a program of product development which has continued to the present day.
Strategic Partners
Starting in 1993, Ability Plus Software teamed-up with Great Bear, a U.S. company with an office in
Sofia
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Bulgaria
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to develop a new Windows product — Ability Office — as a successor to Ability Plus. Great Bear are now based wholly in Sofia, and the partnership remains intact.
In 2004, Ability Plus Software entered into a long-term marketing and sales agreement with Ability Software International, part of the Formjet PLC Group. FormJet is also an exclusive distributor of
Panda Security
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. Ability Plus Software now manages software development, and Ability Software International handles all sales and marketing worldwide.