Multi Tenant BI - an Apt Architecture for BI system

1. Multi Tenant BI – an Apt Architecture for BI SystemsBy SPEC INDIA

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Basic Architectural Comparison

6. 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’

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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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