报告题目：SaaSMulti-Tenant Application Customization

报 告 人：阳颖灿

报告时间：2014年4月11日

报告地点：贵州大学北校区博学楼601室

报告内容摘要：

Cloud computing often uses the multi-tenancyarchitecture where tenants share system software. It is one of the key featuresof Software as a Service (SaaS) that enables higher profit margin by leveragingthe economics of scale. Tenants residing on a multi-tenant application appearto be the sole owner of the application and not aware of the existence of others.A multi-tenant SaaS application accommodates each tenant's unique requirementsby allowing tenant-level customization. A complex SaaS application thatsupportshundreds, even thousands of tenants could have hundreds of customizationpoints with each of them providing multiple options, and this could result in ahuge number of ways to customize the application. This paper proposes an innovativecustomization approach that studies similar tenants' customization choices andprovides guided semi-automated customization process for the future tenants.