Office Automation Software

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Office Automation Software is a class of software sold initially in the 1980's. The goal of the software was to create a "Paperless Office" and allow groups of workers to share documents and files electronically. Typical packages included a word processing package, file storage, and calendar. Packages were available from a number of companies including:

All of these software packages only ran on hardware from the same manufacturer. Furthermore, they usually only supported proprietary file structures and networking. These factors contributed to their decline as software that could run on PC's using standard networking protocols was more attractive to users. By the 2000's most people had replaced their proprietary office automation systems with PC based products.

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