Desktop Computer Packages

What is the answer to the cryptic clue "Hard work using computer package"?

The answer has 11 letters and the 7th letter is an "a".

Public Comments

1. Application - the common name for a software program. And one has to apply oneself to hard work.
2. I can only come up with "calculation." The amount of work a computer does is often measured in the number of calculations it can perform per second.
3. Application....it was in The Times the other day