Talk:Multitenancy and working with finances across borders

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  • Legal issues

There are many legal issues to be resolved before anything like this could be implemented.

  1. The offices are separate legal entities and therefore would need their own accounting system.
  2. In addition it's not even clear if an agreement on the data aggregation itself exists, not to mention a super user instance that can see and evaluate all their data.
  3. Cross links to foreign accounts and cost centres would not be permitted as the accounting procedures of

one office messes up the balances of the other.

  • technical implementation
  1. When it comes to the technical implementation, the site key already - to a certain extent - represents the tenant ID.
  2. evaluating and aggregating the data will require a data-warehouse style platform with specific reporting tables in order to handle the steadily increasing data volume