Multi-Tenant SaaS Application Platform: A Survey

Now days cloud computing is a very noble Internet based on-demand, pay-as-per-use, utility based computing platform which provides software as a service to the end user as rent basis to reduce the cost of purchasing the software as well as reducing the maintenance costs which is more sophisticated to the end user. It makes IT industry more available at the door step of the users. But here security measures over the cloud-hosted platform are less. A multi-tenant based SaaS application platform provides a security framework which improves collaboration between cloud service providers and cloud service consumers. Multi-tenant database allows multiple instances emulates single instance which provides a SaaS security framework model. Due to sharing of a single application among the multiple tenants brings down the overall cost of IT infrastructures. In this recent era of IT infrastructure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is becoming a dominant technology which utilize a standardized SaaS application developed by SaaS application developer. There is an application, metadata driven architecture introduced by Force.com satisfy the multitenancy of SaaS application.