Software and apps
Multi tenant
One piece of software serving many separate customers, each seeing only its own data, the way one apartment building houses many tenants behind their own locked doors.
Why it matters for your business
If you are building software to sell to others, or run a franchise system, multi tenant design means one codebase, one set of updates, and clean separation between customers. Getting it right early is far cheaper than retrofitting it.
In practice
A shuttle operator's rider software runs one system for a university, a hotel and a planned community. Each client logs in and sees only its own routes, riders and reports.
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