Office Automation Software

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Office automation refers to the varied computer machinery and software used to digitally create, collect, store, manipulate, and relay office information needed for accomplishing basic tasks and goals. Raw data storage, electronic transfer, and the management of electronic business information comprise the basic activities of an office automation system. Office Automation helps in optimise or automate existing office procedures. The backbone of office automation is a LAN, which allows users to transmit data, mail and even voice across the network.

The below listed products are Target Future (TF), approved as a standard but not yet implemented at HUD.

Microsoft Office Professional 2003

The below listed products are in use and being Maintained (M), they will be periodically reviewed by the Configuration Control Management Board (CCMB), Enterprise Architecture (EA), & OPS to determine status and whether plans should be made to migrate to Target or should be moved to the Obsolete category.

Corel WordPerfect Office 11.0
Microsoft Access 2003

The below listed products are Obsolete (O), outdated technology that plans are being made to sunset the product.

HP KNOWLIX
Microsoft Access 2000

Target Future Products

Microsoft Office Professional 2003

Product Description

Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created or purchased by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows, and Apple Computer's Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems. As well as the core office applications, the Microsoft Office brand includes associated servers and Web-based services. Recent versions of Office are now called the "Office system" rather than the "Office suite" to reflect the fact that they include servers as well.

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Corel WordPerfect Office 11.0

Product Description

WordPerfect is a proprietary word processing application. At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was the de facto standard word processor, but has since been eclipsed in sales by Microsoft Word. Although the DOS and Microsoft Windows versions are best known, its popularity was based on the fact that it had been available for a wide variety of computers and operating systems, including Mac OS, Linux, the Apple IIe, a separate version for the Apple IIgs, most popular versions of Unix, VMS, Data General, System/370, AmigaOS, Atari ST, OS/2, and NeXTSTEP. Long before the advent of OpenOffice.org, WordPerfect was perhaps the first multi-platform office suite.

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Microsoft Access 2003

Product Description

Microsoft Access (current full name Microsoft Office Access) is a relational database management system from Microsoft, packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface. Microsoft Access can use data stored in Access/Jet, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or any ODBC-compliant data container. Skilled software developers and data architects use it to develop application software. Relatively unskilled programmers and non-programmer "power users" can use it to build simple applications. It supports some object-oriented (OO) techniques but falls short of being a fully OO development tool.

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HP KNOWLIX

Product Description

Knowlix provides powerful access that is integrated with ServiceCenter and other leading support management systems. Now you'll be able to continually capture new information to build a knowledge base along with legacy material. Knowlix helps you approve and secure your information and makes it easy to maintain the knowledge base so that it's always current and compelling. And Knowlix measures every user interaction to generate powerful reports on your organization's effectiveness.

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Microsoft Access 2000

Product Description

Microsoft Access (current full name Microsoft Office Access) is a relational database management system from Microsoft, packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface. Microsoft Access can use data stored in Access/Jet, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or any ODBC-compliant data container. Skilled software developers and data architects use it to develop application software. Relatively unskilled programmers and non-programmer "power users" can use it to build simple applications. It supports some object-oriented (OO) techniques but falls short of being a fully OO development tool.

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