US 8,412,673 B2Granted

Persistence of master data in a multi-tenant software delivery architecture

AssigneeSap SE

InventorsChristof Weissenberger, Christoph Lehner, Gururaj Raman, Wolfgang Nieswand

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Abstract

A first tenant-nonspecific database table on a repository accessible to an application server of a multi-tenant software delivery architecture can maintain a first record designating a first predefined generic field of a plurality of predefined generic fields. The first record can include an organization-specific master data field definition of the first predefined generic field maintained in a first tenant-specific definition field assigned to a first customer tenant of a plurality of customer tenants that are accessible via the application server. Each customer tenant of the plurality of customer tenants can provide a discrete organization-specific business configuration of a core software platform. A second tenant-nonspecific database table maintained on the repository can maintain a second record that can include a key value designating the first tenant, a record designator, and an organization-specific master data value corresponding to the first predefined generic field. A calculation or determination based on master data can be performed that is relevant to the discrete organization-specific business configuration provided by the first customer tenant using the organization-specific master data value.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A computer program product comprising a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

maintaining, in a first tenant-nonspecific database table on a repository accessible to an application server of a multi-tenant software delivery architecture, a first record designating a first predefined generic field of a plurality of predefined generic fields and comprising an organization-specific master data field definition of the first predefined generic field maintained in a first tenant-specific definition field assigned to a first customer tenant of a plurality of customer tenants that are accessible via the application server, each customer tenant of the plurality of customer tenants providing a discrete organization-specific business configuration of a core software platform;
maintaining, in a second tenant-nonspecific database table maintained on the repository, a second record comprising a key value designating the first tenant, a record designator, and an organization-specific master data value corresponding to the first predefined generic field;
performing a calculation or determination based on master data relevant to the discrete organization-specific business configuration provided by the first customer tenant using the organization-specific master data value;
and
moving the first customer tenant to a second multi-tenant software architecture comprising a second application server and a second repository, the moving comprising:
moving the first tenant-specific generic field definition field from the first tenant-nonspecific database table on the repository to a target first tenant-nonspecific database table on the second repository;
extracting the second record and any other records in the second tenant-nonspecific database table having key values designating the first tenant from the second tenant-nonspecific database table;
and
adding the extracted second record and any other records to a target second tenant-nonspecific database table on the second repository.

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A system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
maintaining, in a first tenant-nonspecific database table on a repository accessible to an application server of a multi-tenant software delivery architecture, a first record designating a first predefined generic field of a plurality of predefined generic fields and comprising an organization-specific master data field definition of the first predefined generic field maintained in a first tenant-specific definition field assigned to a first customer tenant of a plurality of customer tenants that are accessible via the application server, each customer tenant of the plurality of customer tenants providing a discrete organization-specific business configuration of a core software platform;
maintaining, in a second tenant-nonspecific database table maintained on the repository, a second record comprising a key value designating the first tenant, a record designator, and an organization-specific master data value corresponding to the first predefined generic field;
performing a calculation or determination based on master data that is relevant to the discrete organization-specific business configuration provided by the first customer tenant using the organization-specific master data value;
and
copying the first customer tenant to a second customer tenant on the multi-tenant software architecture, the copying comprising:
creating a copy of the first tenant-specific generic field definition field in the first tenant-nonspecific database table;
duplicating the second record and any other records in the second tenant-nonspecific database table having key values designating the first tenant in the second tenant-nonspecific database table;
and
changing the key values of the duplicated second record and any other records to designate the second customer tenant.

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A system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
maintaining, in a first tenant-nonspecific database table on a repository accessible to an application server of a multi-tenant software delivery architecture, a first record designating a first predefined generic field of a plurality of predefined generic fields and comprising an organization-specific master data field definition of the first predefined generic field maintained in a first tenant-specific definition field assigned to a first customer tenant of a plurality of customer tenants that are accessible via the application server, each customer tenant of the plurality of customer tenants providing a discrete organization-specific business configuration of a core software platform;
maintaining, in a second tenant-nonspecific database table maintained on the repository, a second record comprising a key value designating the first tenant, a record designator, and an organization-specific master data value corresponding to the first predefined generic field;
performing a calculation or determination based on master data relevant to the discrete organization-specific business configuration provided by the first customer tenant using the organization-specific master data value;
and
moving the first customer tenant to a second multi-tenant software architecture comprising a second application server and a second repository, the moving comprising:
moving the first tenant-specific generic field definition field from the first tenant-nonspecific database table on the repository to a target first tenant-nonspecific database table on the second repository;
extracting the second record and any other records in the second tenant-nonspecific database table having key values designating the first tenant from the second tenant-nonspecific database table;
and
adding the extracted second record and any other records to a target second tenant-nonspecific database table on the second repository.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

maintaining, in a first tenant-nonspecific database table on a repository accessible to an application server of a multi-tenant software delivery architecture, a first record designating a first predefined generic field of a plurality of predefined generic fields and comprising an organization-specific master data field definition of the first predefined generic field maintained in a first tenant-specific definition field assigned to a first customer tenant of a plurality of customer tenants that are accessible via the application server, each customer tenant of the plurality of customer tenants providing a discrete organization-specific business configuration of a core software platform;
maintaining, in a second tenant-nonspecific database table maintained on the repository, a second record comprising a key value designating the first tenant, a record designator, and an organization-specific master data value corresponding to the first predefined generic field;
performing a calculation or determination based on master data that is relevant to the discrete organization-specific business configuration provided by the first customer tenant using the organization-specific master data value;
and
deleting the first customer tenant from the multi-tenant software architecture, the deleting comprising:
deleting the first tenant-specific generic field definition field from the first tenant-nonspecific database table on the repository to a target first tenant-nonspecific database table on the second repository;
and
deleting the second record and any other records in the second tenant-nonspecific database table having key values designating the first tenant from the second tenant-nonspecific database table.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.