Moving from custom ASP.NET application to Sharepoint Services

Question

Our company has an ASP.NET application for customer information database. The application started small but has grown without proper design. Now a new version of the app sho

Answer 1

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Is there any collaboration? Supporting documentation for the data? Workflow? If no, then there really isn't any reason to host it through SharePoint - you won't be gaining much.

Additionally, keep in mind that the SharePoint lists may look like tables, but they aren't - there is no relational aspects of the lists - no joining, no cascading updates/deletes, etc. This may be a problem if data reporting is a big part of your app.

You can store the data externally and have it appear as read-only lists in SharePoint, but you're still jumping through a lot of hoops if you're not using any of the other SharePoint features.