A NOVEL MULTI-TENANT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FOR SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE APPLICATIONS

Haitham Yaish, Madhu Goyal, George Feuerlicht

2012

Abstract

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a web based delivery model which permits a third party provider offering software services to unlimited number of tenants based on multi-tenant architecture design. Multi-tenancy is the primary characteristic of SaaS, it allows SaaS vendors to run a single instance application which supports multiple tenants on the same hardware and software infrastructure. This application should be highly configurable to meet tenants’ expectations and business requirements. Nevertheless, configuring multi-tenant application is hard and complex task to accomplish. This paper is generally focusing on SaaS multi-tenancy in the context of providing a configurable architecture design to support multi-tenant applications in designing and developing a configurable multi-tenant database schema, User Interface, and access control. This novel configurable multi-tenant architecture design provides critical and fundamental solution to the development of multi-tenant SaaS applications, once it is achieved it will be a vital contribution to SaaS industry.

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Yaish H., Goyal M. and Feuerlicht G. (2012). A NOVEL MULTI-TENANT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FOR SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 82-88. DOI: 10.5220/0003915800820088


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Yaish H., Goyal M. and Feuerlicht G. (2012). A NOVEL MULTI-TENANT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FOR SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 82-88. DOI: 10.5220/0003915800820088


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author={Haitham Yaish and Madhu Goyal and George Feuerlicht},
title={A NOVEL MULTI-TENANT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FOR SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE APPLICATIONS},
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year={2012},
pages={82-88},
publisher={SciTePress},
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doi={10.5220/0003915800820088},
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author={Haitham Yaish and Madhu Goyal and George Feuerlicht},
title={A NOVEL MULTI-TENANT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FOR SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={82-88},
publisher={SciTePress},
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doi={10.5220/0003915800820088},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
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TI - A NOVEL MULTI-TENANT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FOR SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE APPLICATIONS
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AU - Goyal M.
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