Office automation (Office Automation, referred to as OA) is the modern office and computer network to combine the functions of a new office mode. Office automation is no uniform definition, usually in the office of the traditional kinds of new technologies, new machines, new equipment using engaged in the business office, are in the field of office automation. In the administrative organs, mostly office automation is called electronic government, enterprises and institutions is mostly called OA, office automation. Through the realization of office automation, or the implementation of digital office, can optimize the existing management structure, adjusting management system, in the basis of improving efficiency, increasing collaboration ability, strengthen the consistency of decision, finally achieve the purpose of improving the efficiency of decision-making.

　　The traditional manual office mode, document preservation, sharing, use and reuse is very difficult. In the case of manual office document retrieval existence very big difficulty. Office automation make a variety of documents electronically, storage implementation of the document by electronic file cabinet form, according to the authority to use and sharing. Later, the enterprise realize office automation. For example, a unit to a new employee, as long as the administrator to he registered an identity document, give him a password, the Internet can see his own various internal authority range with her identity within the enterprise accumulated knowledge, it can reduce a lot of training link.

　　OA software across the production, sales and financial business category specific, more focus on the daily office business efficiency and controllability, enterprises to improve the overall operation of the indispensable ability of enterprise office software tools, the change of the way and the efficiency improvement has played a positive role in promoting.