OfficeVision is an IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 proprietary office support application that primarily runs on IBM's VM

VM (operating system)

VM refers to a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules emulator for personal computers. The first version, released in 1972, was VM/370, or officially Virtual Machine Facility/370...

 operating system and its user interface CMS

Conversational Monitor System

The Conversational Monitor System is a relatively simple interactive computing single-user operating system.* CMS is part of IBM's VM family, which runs on IBM mainframe computers...

. Other platform versions are available, notably OV/MVS and OV/400. OfficeVision provides e-mail

E-mail

Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

, shared calendars, and shared document storage and management, and it provides the ability to integrate word processing applications such as Displaywrite/370

DisplayWrite

DisplayWrite was a word processor software application that IBM developed and marketed for its line of IBM PCs. Its document files used the RFT or DCA filename extension, both of which were standards on IBM mainframe computers...

 and/or the Document Composition Facility (DCF/SCRIPT).

The advent of the personal computer

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 and the client–server paradigm changed the way organizations looked at office automation.