Multi Tenant BI – an Apt Architecture for BI Systems

By SPEC INDIA

What is Multi Tenancy?

• Multi Tenancy showcases an architecture within which a single instance of a software application serves multiple clients

• Each of these clients is termed as a ‘tenant’• These tenants would be offered provision for

customization to a certain extent, like changes in the UI colour or certain design patterns etc.

• They would not be allowed customization into the main source code

Introduction to Multi Tenant BI

• Multi tenant BI refers to a single Business Intelligence instance that serves multiple organizations / clients

• Such BI solutions provide the file / folder / row / theme level secure multi tenant environment

• Multi tenancy is imbibed in most of the popular BI tools like Pentaho, Jaspersoft etc.

Why Multi Tenancy in BI?

• Turns out to be economical since there is sharing of development and maintenance costs

• Unlike Single tenancy (with a focus on clients having their own software instances and access to source code), Multi Tenancy focuses on the service provider to touch multiple instances of the software and get updates

• In this novel approach, the service provider will need to make updates only once

Basic Architectural Comparison

Key Benefits of Multi Tenant BI

• Operational benefit owing to entire code lying in one place

• Cheaper to maintain, update and backup• Lower system requirements and reduced

labour expenses• Higher resource utilization• Product offered ‘as a service’

Key Benefits of Multi Tenant BI (contd.)

• Clients can have their own specific functionalities

• Possibility to server larger number of clients with limited hardware setup

• Sharing of resources: Hardware, software, development / deployment / maintenance cost

• Reduced Hardware and bandwidth cost• Single and unified path of migration• Ease of use and flexibility

Multi Tenancy in Business Intelligence tools

• Pentaho– A popular BI solution which manages roles, users and

actions of an organization with a facility for the administrator to create roles and users depending on requirements.

– With utmost security of non-transparency of data with organizations, Pentaho implements multi tenancy with focus on high performance and cost savings.

– The expert team of Pentaho experts have been working on this architecture and BI deployment since over 15 years.

Multi Tenancy in Business Intelligence tools (contd.)

• Jaspersoft– Maintains multi tenancy through individual set of users, roles, reports

and access controls which assist in security management of tenants for SaaS based applications.

– Large community of clients who depend on Jaspersoft for its inbuilt multi tenancy support to maintain the environment.

– It supports various server sizes be it small, medium or large.

Multi Tenancy in Business Intelligence tools (contd.)

• Tableau– Multi tenancy in Tableau gives its clients a novel

manner for content management– A great tool for organization and security of data

and observations– Lot of control on the entire environment ensuring

complete security

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