My application is hosted outside of Salesforce and uses the API to keep data in sync.  This obvisouly requires a SF user account to be used to create and update objects in SF.  Does this user account need to be an Administrator account, or could it just be any SF user that is using a profile that has been granted the necessary rights (Modify All Data?)?  This user needs to be able to access picklist values, create companies, company contacts, users, etc.

My application is hosted outside of Salesforce and uses the API to keep data in sync.  This obvisouly requires a SF user account to be used to create and update objects in SF.  Does this user account need to be an Administrator account, or could it just be any SF user that is using a profile that has been granted the necessary rights (Modify All Data?)?  This user needs to be able to access picklist values, create companies, company contacts, users, etc.