The Force.com Multitenant Architecture: Understanding the Design of Salesforce.com’s Internet Application Development Platform

New Challenges and Emerging Solutions

Attempting to weave multitenancy throughout the fabric of an application’s core logic and its underlying infrastructure is a complex undertaking. Building metadata-driven, multitenant applications from scratch without any prior experience is destined to be a time-consuming and error-prone effort. In the end, many would-be SaaS providers struggle to succeed in building multitenant applications and end up wasting valuable time that could have been spent focused on the innovation of core application functionality and features.

One problem is that traditional application development frameworks and platforms are not equipped to handle the special needs of modern Internet applications. As a result, new types of ...