I'm looking into using Drupal for my company, and have a few questions about its capabilities:
1) Is there a web services module that can handle user creation and management?
2) Assume I already have a DB table (in MSSQL2005) that contains a list of shopping stores, with the requisite address information, phone number, home web site, etc., and I wanted to migrate it over to Drupal, where each shopping store has its own page (and I mean that in layman's terms), or node. First off, if I wanted to preserve that information as fields in the MySQL table, do I use CCK to create a new "shopping" node with those fields in it via the web interface? Second, do I need to add them individual through the web interface, or can I just export the table and dump that info into the MySQL table once I've established the node type?
2.5) Along those lines, how easy is it to design the Drupal site backwards? Meaning, if I already have a database schema I want to keep, that I can design nodes in Drupal that uses that database.