OFFICE AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
An Office Automation
System (OAS) facilitates everyday information processing tasks in offices
and business organizations. These systems include a wide range of tools such as
spreadsheets, word processors, and presentation packages. Although telephones,
e-mail, v-mail, and fax can be included in this category, we will treat communication
systems as a separate category.
OASs help people perform
personal recordkeeping, writing, and calculation chores efficiently. Of all the
system types, OASs and communication systems are the most familiar to students.
Tools generally grouped within the OAS category include:
-Spreadsheets are
an efficient method for performing calculations that can be visualized in terms
of the cells of a spreadsheet. Although spreadsheet programs seem second nature
today, the first spreadsheet program was VisiCalc, which helped create the
demand for the first personal computers in the late 1970s.
