Enterprise Architecture

Multi-tenant architecture is proved to be highly scalable when it comes to managing the system infrastructure. In a multi-tenant solution the vendor will not have to add new data centre every time a new tenant walks into the system.

In fact the vendor can just a single hardware to the solution and increase the efficacy of the entire solution by my folds there by enhancing the user experience for not only the new customers who are just added to the system but also for the old and existing system users.

A multi-tenant architecture based solution uses single code-base and databases. Thereby making the updates, upgrades and maintenance processes for a multi-tenant architecture is much easier, faster and enhanced.

The major reason why a multi-tenant solution gains mileage over single tenant solution is the vendor does not really have to upgrade and enhance each instance of the software to make a single update, they can just tweak the global codebase and the updates will reach all the tenants at once.

In a single tenant based architecture the customization task becomes complex as the user has to get the actual application code tweaked to get a simple customization done. It is not only expensive but also time taking.

However in a multi-tenant architecture based solution customization is a cake walk as the actual underlying code base remains untouched, as the user has a additional layer wherein the customization can be done without having to deal with the application actual codebase. The user has the ability to patch up their codes and make the system custom to their needs.

The cost of investment in a single tenant architecture based application is much higher than that of the multi-tenant based architecture. As not only a multi-tenant architecture based application saves a lot of money in updates and customization but the cost of initial investment is also low, as a shared set of resources is used.

In a single tenant architecture based application the hardware cost is to be bared by single user only, in fact to add efficiency to each instance the user has to pay a separate amount. However in a multi-tenant architecture based solution the cost of infrastructure and hardware management is way too low as enhancement is single instance is required.

In a multitenant architecture based SAAS Solution the user does not have to develop an instance and data centre for each user that has joined the application. In fact they can use a single datacentres, servers and computing capacities for all the users.

As all the customers in a multitenant based architecture have same infrastructure to use the vendor does not have to configure new ones and connect them to compute data. The run time of the codes is also low as the data that is required to be computed is at single centre only and the system does not have to locate search, sort and compute the data from various data centres.