Office--Sway, Sharepoint, Yammer--does anyone actually use this?

Sharepoint is the only one I'm familiar with and it's good for big offices and working on documents together where you need to keep track of changes. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Any better than simply sharing a Dropbox folder?

A shite ton of government agencies and educational institutions use Sharepoint.

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Any better than simply sharing a Dropbox folder?

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Not even close. You can build a wiki, do document management, embed all sorts of different reports, manage scheduled Power Pivot data refreshes, have automatic notification emails, message boards, calendars that sync with Outlook... I could keep going. You can pretty much have the ultimate collaboration tool and completely customize it.

Our organization is simply not large enough to utilize these things effectively it seems. Never needed a wiki for example nor have we needed to "update power pivot data."

We don't even have an IT staff and I know already you better not run a lot of MSFT without an IT staff. That is why I have iMacs on everyone's desk and run our back office stuff on an isolated MSFT server and every one accesses it with terminal services. We even do our rather EDI stuff with a web based provider than integrates to our server over the network and don't need a windows machine for that.

We only have 15 or so users.

I hardly ever use excel. I use numbers.

What I do like and have Fusion on desktop so I can windows is Access. I can't do the stuff I do in Access in Filemaker. I am no developer and I do more than casual database stuff when I do it and I find the table query format of Access easy to understand and massage the data with.

I ask a local MSFT "gold" support company to do our IT and they wanted something $45000 a year. I doubt I have ever spent $5000 in a year maintaining our network of Macs.