MULTI-TENANCY

Multi-tenancy means the vendor is operating a single production environment for all its customers. This business model offers many advantages to the customer including:

Accelerating Time to Value

Multi-tenancy allows customers to go live in half the time of traditional on-premise applications. By making a sandbox environment immediately available, the project team is rapidly able to design the future state business processes in context with the application in one step.

Always Be on the Latest Release

In the multi-tenant SaaS world, all customers are automatically updated to the latest release of the software removing the need for complex and costly upgrades. All new functionality arrives switched off. Now customers can create their own business process delivery roadmap to innovate their business at their own pace.

You Control Your Technology Adoption

Traditionally businesses deployed new business processes based on the timeline dictated by de-support notices of their ERP vendors. In Workday you are always on the latest release with new functionality arriving switched off. This allows the business to plan the delivery of its new business processes on its own timeline as opposed to the vendors.

Turn Your OR Into AND Projects

IT has always been resource and budget constrained. Traditionally a major project such as deploying HCM, Payroll or Financials is an OR type project. This means IT’s resources are consumed executing on and maintaining one project versus another.  Multi-tenant SaaS enables IT to turn OR into an AND. IT can now stretch its budget further and allocate its scarce resources to execute on more strategic projects.

Community Collaboration

In the legacy on-premise world customers have limited latitude to collaborate with their peers because everyone is on a different version of the software along with various customizations and underlying infrastructure. In a multi-tenant SaaS world every customer is on the same version facilitating a whole new level of communication, collaboration, and sharing of best practices and assets such as reports, integrations, and more.