Patent ID: 8849751

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: maintaining, in a first tenant-nonspecific database table on a repository accessible to an application server of a multi-tenant software delivery architecture, a first record designating a first predefined generic field of a plurality of predefined generic fields and comprising an organization-specific master data field definition of the first predefined generic field maintained in a first tenant-specific definition field assigned to a first customer tenant of a plurality of customer tenants that are accessible via the application server, each customer tenant of the plurality of customer tenants providing a discrete organization-specific business configuration of a core software platform; maintaining, in a second tenant-nonspecific database table maintained on the repository, a second record comprising a key value designating the first tenant, a record designator, and an organization-specific master data value corresponding to the first predefined generic field; and performing a calculation or determination based on master data relevant to the discrete organization-specific business configuration provided by the first customer tenant using the organization-specific master data value.