Office Automation - Introduction

June 2014
What is office automation?
Office suite tools

What is office automation?

The term office automation refers to all tools and methods that are applied to office activities
which make it possible to process written, visual, and sound data in a computer-aided manner.
Office automation is intended to provide elements which make it possible to simplify, improve,
and automate the organization of the activities of a company or a group of people (management
of administrative data, synchronization of meetings, etc.).
Considering that company organizations requires increased communication, today, office
automation is no longer limited to simply capturing handwritten notes. In particular, it also
includes the following activities:
exchange of information
management of administrative documents
handling of numerical data
meeting planning and management of work schedules

Office suite tools

The term "office suite" refers to all software programs which make it possible to meet office
needs. In particular, an office suite therefore includes the following software programs:
word processing
a spreadsheet
a presentation tool
a database
a scheduler
The main office suites are:
OpenOffice (freeware)

AppleWorks
Corel WordPerfect
IBM/Lotus SmartSuite
Microsoft Office
Sun StarOffice
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