detecting one or more global properties in entity metadata for each tenant in a plurality of tenants of the SaaS system, wherein the one or more global properties are properties shared by all tenants in the plurality of tenants;

partitioning the plurality of tenants into one or more groups;

identifying one or more common properties in each group of the one or more groups, wherein the one or more common properties include non-global properties shared by all tenants in the group;

compiling the one or more global properties in a global-level list and the one or more common properties of each group in a corresponding group-level list;

obtaining one or more tenant-specific properties in the entity metadata for each tenant in the plurality of tenants, wherein the one or more tenant-specific properties exclude the one or more global properties and the one or more common properties; and

defining a data structure of an entity object for a tenant using the global-level list, the group-level list for the group that contains the tenant, and the one or more tenant-specific properties for the tenant.