Office Automation - describing automation inside a corporation

Office Automation <Tab/>Office automation software and collaboration software are double edge swords. On one hand they insist they can boost productivity and efficiencies; but on the other hand, when they don't work, they can grind a company, or an individual, to a halt with wasted man-power hours and labor intensive recovery from failure. In ChevronTexaco (CVX), we use several types of office automation and collaboration software. Several of these software …

…the office automation and collaborating software that ChevronTexaco utilizes have allowed hundreds of individuals to communicate from virtually anywhere in the world instantly; it has given them the ability to share documents or covey ideas easily and to large groups of people. But if not used correctly, or if the technology that the software operates on fails, productivity can fail and you are left with people just wasting time or unable to do their work.