[pmichaud]

The part I don't quite get here is how these "capabilities" will be able to integrate their data for things like reporting? Even if they are all "on the cloud," the data has to be related somehow or it can't really work.

The obvious workaround is to have black boxes that the parent app will pull from, then manipulate the data from there. That's only workable with smallish data sets. So what's the right answer?