Analysing the 'good old days'

The paper based systems employed in the 1970's could of been improved by office applications like excel spreadsheets and databases e.g. the introduction of formulae and employees using computers more in their work so that tables did not need to be constantly printed out and paper use and waste made very high also mistakes could of been avoided because office applications provide spell checkers, formulae etc... The tables could also of been made more effective if they were used on a computer to enter the data because they could of been edited to be specific to a certain sale and the originals could of been saved as the starting format of all the tables and if any extras were needed to be added it could of been done easily without having to create or print out a whole new table.

The advantages of these office applications over that of the paper based systems were that excel could provide users with ways of using formulae e.g. additions, subtractions, divisions etc.. could all be done by the computer by you setting a simple formulae on the table or cell so that when figures where typed a running total could be kept and the use of calculators made useless. Databases could hold mass amounts of information which would be easy to navigate through and to use which would also display the information in a better more business like format than that of the hand written paper based system. If I were to pick one office system for the business to adopt it would have to be excel spreadsheets because they, in my opinion are easier to use, formulas easier to set up etc.. and just the way that information is presented I find better and easier to read and use and make corrections to if needed.

Secretaries' and typists' employment opportunities were affected by the advent of these new office applications because the computer could now do there job of re-writing the tables to neaten them up because the office applications had neat fonts that looked better than peoples hand writing and spell checker could be used to make sure no spelling mistakes had been made.

Many new job opportunities were opened up with the introduction of office applications, because the use of IT became apart to most people that this is the way that business was going and to become a specialist in IT would open up many new career paths because businesses were striving to be the most technologically advanced and they wanted employees that could use there ever improving technology to its full extent e.g. call centres now are a good example of this because they employ many workers, but they must have IT skills to be able to be part of the workforce, now most businesses have a call centre so millions of new jobs are opening.