MetaShare’s architecture

MetaShare Online and self-hosted

1. The end users interact with MetaShare’s web application, which is geographically located in The Netherlands.
2. MetaShare’s web application only stores each customers’ unique MetaShare configurations (e.g. which filters and columns to display in the user interface). In the case you have a self-hosted MetaShare Online, only your own MetaShare configurations will be stored in the web application and you can choose in which geographically location you want to have your Azure infrastructure.
3. Documents and their metadata are only stored in the customers’ own Microsoft 365 tenant.
4. Documents are opened directly from SharePoint, never passing through the MetaShare application.

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MetaShare Server

1. The end users interact with MetaShare’s web application.
2. MetaShare’s web application only stores the customer’s unique MetaShare configurations (e.g. which filters and columns to display in the user interface).
3. Documents and their metadata are only stored in the customer’s own SharePoint farm.
4. Documents are opened directly from SharePoint, never passing through the MetaShare application.