Multi Company Direct versus Service Bus Pros and Cons

Kinetic ERP
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I am doing a few new companies and they are not financially related so I am thinking I want to do them as external and use service bus and not have them share a database.

I think this will allow me to have them on different upgrade cadences.

Is this correct? Good idea or bad ?

Thanks

Greg

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I’ve not done this, but I understood it to work exactly as M/C Direct works. We were considering it for our EU companies at one point, so I read the tech ref stuff on it.

However, as I understand it, it uses the exact same table structure (IM tables) and thus all participants on the service bus need to have the same IM table definitions. I guess this sort of implies they be on the same version, or on different versions as long as the IM tables have not changed.

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@MikeGross Thanks. I am assuming, but not certain that I need to do this since I am sharing a license pool with all of us.

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Again, not 100% sure if it’s legal, but I would assume, based on the definition of ‘Site License’ that as long as these separate databases/service bus participants are all co-located, it should be legal to do this.

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The instructions are in the install guide and there are KBs on EpicWeb I am following, just looking for any gotchas.

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So to loop back on this. The documentation was not supposed to show that was possible, but not the spirit of Multi-Company and ServiceBus is a dying product from MS, so one DB and MCD it is.

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