Patent ID: 8392573

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying a content move trigger in a multi-tenant computing system, the content move trigger characterizing a transfer of customer content from a first tenant of the multi-tenant computing system to a second tenant of the multi-tenant computing system; exporting the customer content from the first tenant based on the content move trigger; transporting the exported customer content from the first tenant to the second tenant; importing the exported customer content into a staging area in the second tenant to enable a user associated with the second tenant to selectively access the exported customer content via the staging area based on a content extraction trigger, the content extraction trigger characterizing an extraction of selected customer content from the staging area to activate the selected customer content in the second tenant; and wherein the multi-tenant computing system forms part of a multi-tenant environment using a single software delivery architecture, and includes; at least one processor implementing an application server accessible over a network from the plurality of clients associated with each of multiple tenants; and at least one data repository containing: core software platform content relating to the operation of the multi-tenant computing system which is not modifiable by the multiple tenants; system content including data objects created in runtime by the multi-tenant computing system that are modifiable with data provided by a corresponding tenant, and the customer content including data objects or extensions to data objects that are customized for a corresponding tenant.