Dozens of consumer-centric solutions exist to share documents and other files, including popular options such as Dropbox.

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By design, systems of record are records-centric, revolving around enterprise data, documents, messages and their surrounding business processes.

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At the risk of seeming Google-centric, I have to point out that it's even possible to manage basic documents and spreadsheets online -- once proprietary to bloated Microsoft Office products -- for free with Google Docs.

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