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SaaS Multi-Tenant TMS Architecture - Why It's Important To You

Multi-tenant architecture is a shared platform on which all users operate from a single instance of the software, in this case LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS®. Popular examples of multi-tenant architecture include Facebook, Google Mail and Salesforce.com. Do you think of Facebook or Linked In as software? Probably not; you think of it as a cloud, an opportunity to connect with like users all over the world. That's a SaaS business model, very much like On-Demand TMS®. This centrally located, highly secured and continually maintained multi-tenant platform differs dramatically from traditional installed client-server applications or an ASP model that is simply a traditional version installed on the provider's hardware and accessed via the web. Hosted software companies may advertise 'web-based' or 'networked', but they are simply individual versions that are hosted on the seller's server.

So why is a multi-tenant TMS platform so important? In addition to allowing uniform 'on the fly' upgrades, multi-tenant architecture is easily scaled to accommodate your expansion (or contraction), offers rapid implementation (like plugging into a utility) and at a low cost per user. More importantly - and here's the critical issue - multi-tenant architecture is the only TMS environment that empowers true collaboration because all users are working from a shared schema, also known as the 'cloud'. Users share permission-based data that is consistent with everyone else in the cloud. And the bigger the cloud, the more opportunity for collaboration. That is what sets LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS® apart: multi-tenant architecture and a BIG cloud.

Performance Scorecards and Benchmarking

Traditional TMS users often perform below their maximum potential because they have no frame of reference other than their own historical data; they have no visibility to how well they're performing compared to industry peers and other companies with similar transportation networks. With On-Demand TMS®, quantitative benchmarking identifies "what" can be improved, "why" differences exist with other companies and "how" to improve performance. Industry leaders serve as examples in business processes, technology deployment and management technique.

Collaboration - The New Way of Working

Few sectors stand to gain more from collaboration among trading partners than the transportation industry, and no other tool empowers collaboration more than On-Demand TMS®. Truckload, LTL, private and dedicated fleets need to make every outbound and inbound mile productive. Shippers need to join forces to optimize loads while all members want to reduce their empty miles and carbon footprint. Network visibility and real time functionality of the On-Demand TMS® make collaboration easy and effective.

Multi-tenant architecture is a distinguishing factor among the many TMS options available today. SaaS is an operating strategy, not a marketing tactic. It is the ONLY delivery platform that allows true cloud collaboration. Rapid implementation, centralized data and minimal risk with maximum return on investment are all attractive benefits. The aggregate data that empowers collaboration, benchmarking and best practices grows in depth and value every day.

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