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Fitment of SharePoint (Foundation) for a data intensive software


I am new to SharePoint technologies and trying to figure out its suitability for a product to be developed.

I am targeting using only SharePoint Foundation (not the server). Here are some of the key aspect of the target product:

  1. The product is data intensive. There are scores of business and system entities involved. Business entities are expected to hold lot of data (might run into millions in a year). The business entities need to be related. Would SharePoint (Lists) be able to suffice this need?
  2. The product has many reports (canned & ad-hoc). This would mean many complex queries being build and executed at run time. I am unsure if SharePoint would be suitable for this purpose.

Solution

  • From what you have described, I dont see anything that Sharepoint could do to help you.

    Use Sharepoint to create a community portal around sharing of documents and content.

    Your requirements would be better suited to an ASP.NET MVC app with a reporting system or templated Excel downloads using OOXML or similar.