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Dropbox For Business: Right For You?

By Michael Endler

Dropbox's success among consumers is clear; aside from Apple's iCloud, which benefits from the legions entrenched in its iOS ecosystem, Dropbox is the most widely used cloud platform, besting such formidable competitors as Google, Amazon and Microsoft. It's also become an asset within the enterprise, with the company claiming that its customers include more than two million businesses and 95% of the Fortune 500.

Dropbox is more than a storage repository. It's also a collaboration vehicle that's suited to modern business environments, which include not only employees working on traditional PCs in the office but also growing numbers of remote, mobile or work-from-home staffers. Can the increasingly business-minded Dropbox improve productivity and organization at your workplace? Here are five considerations.

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