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Multi-tenant architecture for Enterprises?

by Ramkumar on Jan 10, 2011

The world is shrinking and the traditional boundaries between Desktop, Client-Server, Web and Cloud technologies are getting blurred. While some of your business applications should be strictly on-premise, some have to move to the private cloud and some more to the public cloud.

The users of today’s applications are spread across product divisions, geographies, business units, upstream vendors, downstream partners and customers. Configurability and customization requirements, security and data-scope policies, data isolation and scalability requirements, administration and reporting needs, all these can be quite diverse. The challenges of architecting and engineering such applications are many.

While SaaS as a business model may not be relevant to an enterprise application, multi-tenant architecture and SaaS like features can substantially reduce the operational and infrastructure costs of an enterprise.

Let us look at some examples that we...Read More >>