Method and System for Enabling Non-Intrusive Multi Tenancy Enablement

• US 20130091547A1
• Filed: 10/05/2011
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Inventors: Rao, Vijay, Mohideen, Shaheeda Mohamed, Venkatesan, Rajesh, Venkatesh, Madhava R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,978,107 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00

Abstract

A system for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement in an application may include a processing unit configured to, among other things, identify a data isolation mechanism available in said application, create a centralized multi-tenant database, generate a controlled provisioning layer to manage relationships between a set of consumers and a corresponding entity uniquely developed for said consumers, and generate a multi-tenant wrapper interface for managing relationship(s) between said consumers and instances of the application. The system may further include a memory unit configured to host said centralized customer database to manage users and associated access privileges in said application.

Claims

1. A system for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement in an application , the system comprising

A processing unit configured to

identify a data isolation mechanism available in said application;

create a centralized multi-tenant database;

generate a controlled provisioning layer to manage relationships between a set of consumers and a corresponding entity uniquely developed for said consumers and;

generate a multi-tenant wrapper interface for managing relationship(s) between said consumers and instances of the application and

Memory unit configured to host said centralized customer database to manage users and associated access privileges in said application.

2. A system for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data isolation mechanism comprises of predetermined set of privileges assigned to authorize a user to access predefined set of data.

3. A system for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the multi tenancy in said application is enabled by mapping an organizational structure to said data isolation mechanism such that the users of organization created within the application are not authorized to have the privilege to access data outside their isolated environment.

4. A system for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 1, wherein centralized multi-tenant database is configured to store organization data, associated users and mapping information associated with the data isolation mechanism.

5. A system for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the multi-tenant wrapper interface is configured to act as a provisioning interface that maps the organizational structure with the data isolation mechanism available in said application.

6. A system for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 1, wherein a Single Sign On facility is provided for the multitenant wrapper, said application and the centralized multi-tenant database.

7. A method for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement in an application, the method comprising the steps of

identifying a data isolation mechanism available in said application by a processing unit;

creating a centralized multi-tenant database by the processing unit;

generating a controlled provisioning layer to manage relationships between a set of consumers and a corresponding entity uniquely developed for said consumers, by said processing unit;

generating a controlled provisioning layer to manage relationships between a set of consumers and a corresponding entity uniquely developed for said consumers, by the processing unit;

generating a multi-tenant wrapper interface for managing relationship(s) between said consumers and instances of the application, by said processing unit

hosting said centralized customer database to manage users and associated access privileges in said application by a Memory unit.

8. A method for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 7, wherein the step of identifying a data isolation mechanism comprises the step of authorizing a user to access predefined set of data based on predetermined set of assigned privileges.

9. A method for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 7, wherein multi tenancy enablement comprises the step of mapping an organizational structure to said data isolation mechanism such that the users of organization created within the application are not authorized to have the privilege to access data outside their isolated environment.

10. A method for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 7, wherein hosting the centralized customer database comprises the step of store organization data, associated users and mapping information associated with the data isolation mechanism.

11. A method for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 7, wherein the step of generation of a multi-tenant wrapper interface comprises the step of configuring the multi-tenant interface to act as a provisioning interface for mapping the organizational structure with the data isolation mechanism available in said application.

12. A method for enabling non-intrusive multi tenancy enablement as claimed in claim 7, wherein a Single Sign On facility is provided for multitenant wrapper, application and the centralized multi-tenant database.