Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:44 AM
Jim Glass
Blake: Multi-tenancy for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Ooh, Dan Blake's CRM Architecture and Business Blog has an excellent post on multi-tenancy. Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls. Dan was answering a question on the CRM Team Blog post Multi-tenancy in CRM 4.
"There seems to be some confusion around how to configure and use multitenancy in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. In simple terms, multitenancy means that more than one “tenant” shares a single implementation of a web application. A tenant might be a single customer to a vendor that hosts the software for many customers. Or, it might be a division or department in a large organization. The big benefit of multitenancy is economy of scale. You can install all of the software on a set of servers and serve several customers with one implementation."
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About Jim Glass
As the Microsoft Dynamics CRM UX site manager, I am a passionate advocate for our customers, especially in the areas of CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, small business, and business web sites.
After twenty years in the U.S. Army Engineer Corps, I started at Microsoft as a contractor on the newly formed NT DDK team in 92. I then moved to the Trolls, a production team for the Windows SDK and DDK teams. I lead the WBEM team which became the WMI SDK team. My last seven years has been spent as the Visual Studio SDK doc. manager.
In my spare time I can be found tutoring my grandkids, playing the saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone), playing summer-league basketball, and moderating the Sax On The Web forum.
