SharePoint is all about documents and flow of documents to complete your work. It's all about document sharing and collaboration. That's why we are talking about Office Automation based on SharePoint.
All the paper works in your office can be automated inside SharePoint, especially when there is great integration between Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Adding amazing integration of Microsoft Exchange 2007 and using Incomming & Outgoing mail integreation of SharePoint 2007 will gives you full trust on using SharePoint and improves efficiency of your office.