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One application or multiple ones?

Former Member
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Hi experts,

I'm encountering a confusion to decide choosing one application for planning or splitting it to multiple applications. I'm sorry that this question is somehow general and hard to answer, i'm trying to specify more:

Day 1: We have 8 dimensions in a planning application and we use it to do the asset planning, expense planning and finance planning.

Day 2: We find the data volume of this application is too big, we decide to split it to 3 different ones. Fortunately these 3 applications share all 8 dimensions.

HOWEVER, I'm seriously not sure what are the pros and cons of these two decisions: One application (except rate, etc.) for all business or multiple ones?

Thanks,

Tony

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Former Member
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Hi Tony,

You can definitely maintain different applications. However, it might be little issues at the performance while fetching data from all the applications. If you need data to be transferred from one application to another, you need to use script for that. I would still suggest that maintaining a single application might be easier. However, it will depend on the purpose of the application.

Former Member
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Hi nilanjan,

I think you're right, I also considered the issue regarding fetching data from other applications. Did you meet similar cases that multiple applications would cause difficulties of system realization, or bad system performance?

Meanwhile, Could you share us some experience of what are the disadvantages by using ONE application? In my opinion, write data back to the application might be impacted... (I haven't thought about this issue throughly but just raise it for your experts for discussion).

Thanks and regards,

Tony

Former Member
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Hi Tony,

I dont see any challenges in maintaining a single application, atleast in terms of data. May be some other experts can throw some light on this.

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