In the 2000s, multi-tenancy underpinned almost all ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) enterprise application delivery – Salesforce was a pioneer of this approach. In fact enterprise software was designed and constructed with cloud deployment in mind. But why was this?
Fifteen years ago infrastructure was expensive. There was no cloud – at least not like we have today. This meant companies wanting to offer SaaS applications had to build and run their own costly data centres.
