Providing temporary use of non-downloadable cloud-based software for business management; providing temporary use of non-downloadable cloud-based business software to automate business functions and processes including creating, building, and managing e-commerce stores, for generating business quotes and proposals, for catalog management, for customer relationship management (CRM), and for procurement; platform as a service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for business management; platform as a service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for automating business functions and processes including creating, building and managing e-commerce stores, for generating business quotes and proposals, for catalog management, for customer relationship management (CRM), for procurement, for reporting and analytics, and for sales and marketing; hosting the web sites of others on a computer server for a global computer network, namely, for the purpose of facilitating electronic commerce for others.