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Multi-tenancy is an architectural approach that enables a single instance of an application to be shared among multiple organizations/users,also called tenants .  According to Oracle Multitenant’s description on IT Central Station, multitenant architecture is “a new architecture that enables customers to easily consolidate multiple databases, without changing their applications.”   " Multitenancy refers to a principle in software architecture where a single instance of the software runs on a server, serving multiple client organizations (tenants). Multitenancy is contrasted with a multi-instance architecture where separate software instances (or hardware systems) are set up for different client organizations..." In SaaS, usually a multitenant application has one software layer and one database, but each customer logs in to what appears to be his exclusive app environment. He can only see and manage its own information. Sometimes, single customer applications can...