Design guidance: Site workflow for sharepoint online 2013 app store product

CONTEXT:
I am in the early design stage for a potential Office 365 Application Store application.
My initial target customer is small businesses with under 100 employees.
I will use a structured data store: Initial implementation should be local (lists or Access DB), but potentially scale up to an Azure database.
My assumption is that the customer would already be Office 365 (2013) E3 customers and this product would be an add on.
I like workflows because they are user-friendly: I would prefer to leverage the standard SharePoint workflows rather than reinvent the wheel, but I can implement my own workflow with a custom application if I need to.
I am OK using C#, Access, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, SQL... whatever gives the best solution. I prefer C#.
I prefer a Visual Studio solution that I can manage in a source code repository.
QUESTIONS/GUIDANCE:
Can a standard SharePoint "Site Workflow" be part of a product delivered via an Office Application Store app?
Can a Site Workflow work with an external Azure data connection? Can it work with a local Access database?
Can I start with a SharePoint list, and easily migrate to an Azure database later?
Or should I forget the standard site workflow completely and just build a C# application?
Thanks for any guidance.

Hi,
First my question is what type of SharePoint Apps you are talking about? SharePoint Hosted, AutoHosted or Provider Hosted apps? For AutoHosted and Provider Hosted apps you have more control - as the apps will be running outside SharePoint and then you can
run yourworkflow outside SharePoint. Still your app will be able to access SharePoint data using REST API and you have full control of which technology you would like to use your app (C#, asp.net etc.). With SharePoint Hosted apps, your app will be running
inside SharePoint and you will have limited capabilities to customize - only JS will be allowed in SharePoint hosted apps. You can still use workflow but you can't use external data - unless it's configured through BCS. So my suggestion would be, if are looking
for an add-ons like solution think about non-SharePoint hosted apps. However if you are thinking of limited capabilities, then think about SharePoint hosted apps.
Thanks,
Sohel Rana
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com

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