Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla on Monday launched the e-Office developed by National Informatics Centre at the finance ministry's North Block office in New Delhi.

e-Office provides a platform for personalised, role based, secure access to internal information for the employees that is accessible through any browser. Its salient features include unified view of data, content and document management, collaboration and messaging services with SMS interface, single standards based directory service, identity and access management role and integration of applications.

The implementation of this system is expected to improve the employee productivity by introducing collaborative working in digital workspace and thus pave the way towards paperless office.