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Evaluating the need for domain separation

You may find that domain separation doesn't always work for your customers' organizations. It's best that you base your decision to go with domain separation by looking at your customers' needs.

Reasons for domain separation

These factors may help you decide to choose domain separation for your customers' organizations:

  • Your customers have moderate alignment of processes and general platform requirements.
  • Your customers plan to work on tasks as fulfillers rather than as requesters.
  • Your customers have a contractual agreement that requires that data records be isolated, but your instance owner has determined that the requirement may be addressed somewhere else in the configuration.
  • Your company's instance owners have entire entities that operate as physically separate organizations and do not share data, but full reporting is still required. Separate domains would allow data visibility when configured correctly.

Reasons for no domain separation

These factors can point to reasons why your customers' organizations might not want to set up domain separation:

  • Your customers want to administer their environment, have full ownership of it, and set the roadmap for expansion.
  • Your customers require that the data and process at the physical or database level be completely isolated.

    Note:

    Domain-separated instances contain a shared database so this undermines the isolation requirement.

  • Departments in your customers' organization want to isolate records. (Access controls may suffice.)

  • Your customers all want their own processes, business rules, and workflows.
  • The corporate culture is one of non-collaboration between your customers' organizations.
  • Your customers interact with the platform as end users only.
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Evaluating reasons for and against choosing domain separation

Parent Topic:Domain separation recommended practices for service providers

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