The last few weeks have provided some really confusing hype regarding claims of multi-tenancy from some ERP vendors. The latest twist involves a vendor stating that their product can be multi-tenant ...

In the ‘80s and ‘90s, what we know today as legacy systems were the cutting-edge of the technology world, bringing new opportunities for leveraging software and digital resources for the financial ...

Imagine managing a large apartment complex that is occupied by digital residents rather than real ones. They all share the same infrastructure, from the plumbing (the network) to the elevator (the ...

Dennis Howlett has summarized the story so far in a debate I was having these past few days with Josh Greenbaum, Bob Warfield and assorted other Enterprise Irregulars (and it's not the first time I've ...

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There is a truth about SaaS (software as a service) solutions that twist the definition of cloud-based technology. Is the solution offered by the vendor a lift and shift of their traditional software ...

Software is called "multi-tenanted" if a single instance can serve multiple tenants, and multi-tenancy is often referred to as an application "architecture." Cloud-native technology is challenging ...

In an interview in Forbes last week OpSource CEO Treb Ryan says that open source has a fatal flaw. It was built primarily for single tenant architecture and won’t be converted to multi-tenant public ...

Right now, students all over the country are leaving home, starting university, and moving into their halls of residence. From my experience, that’s usually a single building, teeming with rooms, ...

Now that cloud infrastructure is an inexpensive commodity, the case for multi-tenant applications has gone away, argues Unit4's chief architect Claus Jepsen Software multi-tenancy refers to a software ...