As a customer of IBM® Sterling Warehouse Management System, multi-tenant configuration options enable you to configure your enterprises in a variety of ways:
Each of these options provides benefits and trade-offs according to your individual business requirements. You can opt for a single-instance deployment if you do not anticipate a significant increase in the number of your enterprises and if you want a central point of control and monitoring across your deployment. If your enterprises begin to expand and outgrow a single instance, you can deploy multiple instances. Some business requirements might drive the need for more advanced deployment models where multiple entities require different upgrade cycles and isolation levels. These businesses might include third-party logistics (3PL) providers and hosted environments. For these requirements, you could implement a single-instance multischema deployment.
These deployments are multi-tenant, which means they consist of multiple enterprises that have unique business needs, such as different process flows, enterprise specific extensions, and rules. The last of these deployments is also multischema, which is a type of multi-tenant deployment that has multiple transactional database schemas – one per colony.
See the Deployment Type Benefit Matrix for a summary of the advantages of each type of deployment.