Is WordPress the right tool for my job?

Hello,

I’m a developer for a company that makes small electronics (barcode scanners and access control systems). Our company president is advocating strongly that our team use WordPress as a foundation for all future web applications. He especially likes the plugin system.

One webapp that we need to develop will be a simplified database table builder. Customers will login to their account and create database tables and then add records to them. Most tables will be just text fields but some will have images and MP3 audio. The data in these tables is then served out via a web service to our barcode scanners. Another page on this webapp will show table of scan-data that has been uploaded by all scanners in the system (this page will auto refresh with AJAX).

Another webapp will be an access control system. The most central part of this webapp will be a grid/matrix showing people on one axis and doors on the other axis. At the intersection of a person and door you can click and specify the schedule which the person is allowed to access the door. There may be thousands of people and doors in each database. Other pages on this webapp will be forms that let you edit settings for each individual door, person, and various other system entities.

As you can see these webapps have nothing to do with blogging or CMS. Our company president thinks the WordPress plugin system will help us develop these apps more quickly. My intuition is that a general purpose PHP framwork would serve us better (Symfony, Lavavel, etc).

You guys know WordPress better than we do. Is WordPress the right tool for our job?