OFFICE AUTOMATION AND GROUP COLLABORATION IN AN ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY
This research describes the office automation and group collaboration software used in an electronic manufacturing company. The name of the electronic manufacturing company is not cited in this research as a condition of the company's agreement to provide relevant information to the researcher.
The company uses three families of software for the primary functions of automation of tasks and group collaboration. The software families are obtained from three software development and marketing companies รน Microsoft, Adobe, and i2 Technologies.
Microsoft software is used extensively throughout the organization. Microsoft Word XP is used for the following tasks:
Document markup and review by other that the creator
Collaboration to jointly create documents in real time using the corporate intranet
There are several advantages to using Microsoft Word XP to facilitate collaboration in the creation and approval of documents. Almost all employees are proficient in the use of Microsoft Word XP. The use of Microsoft Word XP is cost-effective. Materials created in other software applications [e.g., spreadsheet tables and so forth] can easily be inserted into Microsoft Word XP documents.
Microsoft Access XP is used in the organization to automate processes that facilitate the use of corporate databases by organizational personnel. While Microsoft Access XP is not a software program that most employees of the organization can use to develop database applications, the applications based in Microsoft Access XP are easy for most employees of the organization to use effectively and efficiently.
The Adobe PDF family of software applications is used by the electronic manufacturing organization to create, review, and approve documents both within the organization and between the organization and its vendors, customers, and
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