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NAV Licensing: Holding Group, Operational Companies and NAV Multi-tenancy

Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Imagine a scenario where many companies (operational companies) from a holding, including the holding itself, use a single database (app + data) and a single NAV license, all of them accessing a Web portal.

Now, imagine that you want to still provide a single NAV instance through the Web to all those companies (one application), but then you want, for security, safety, recovery - you name it) group some of those companies in small clusters of 2-3 companies, and other companies alone in their cluster. Each cluster, holding 1 or more of those companies) will become a tenant of that instance.

Since the original scenario of a single app/data database required a single NAV License, what will it be the NAV licensing requirement, when you still provide one instance of the application and you add to it  tenants?

My immediate answer would be you still need a single license, since there's still a single instance and application in use. But would Microsoft disagree and state that the holding/cluster companies will be obliged to have and pay for a distinct license per tenant?

I would very much appreciate someone from Microsoft to direct me to the licensing precise terms of the scenario above or with solid MS/NAV licensing knowledge to comment.

Many thanks.

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