An Architectural Model for Customizing the Business Logic of SaaS Applications

André Correia, Jorge Renato Penha, António Miguel Rosado da Cruz

2013

Abstract

Traditional software applications are typically customized before being delivered to a client. This customization was a paid service delivered by software development organisations. With the growing demand of applications delivered with a SaaS model, software development organisations are increasingly responding with the migration of traditional applications to a multi-tenant SaaS deployment model. This makes them face themselves with the problem of customizing a shared application, with a shared database, for each tenant that subscribes their deployed service. After overviewing existing solutions for application customizability, this paper addresses the customization of the business logic layer of multi-tenant applications by proposing a solution, which has been used in a multi-tenant WMS application deployed with a SaaS service model.

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in Harvard Style

Correia A., Renato Penha J. and Miguel Rosado da Cruz A. (2013). An Architectural Model for Customizing the Business Logic of SaaS Applications . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-68-6, pages 162-168. DOI: 10.5220/0004490401620168


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft-ea13,
author={André Correia and Jorge Renato Penha and António Miguel Rosado da Cruz},
title={An Architectural Model for Customizing the Business Logic of SaaS Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={162-168},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004490401620168},
isbn={978-989-8565-68-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)
TI - An Architectural Model for Customizing the Business Logic of SaaS Applications
SN - 978-989-8565-68-6
AU - Correia A.
AU - Renato Penha J.
AU - Miguel Rosado da Cruz A.
PY - 2013
SP - 162
EP - 168
DO - 10.5220/0004490401620168