Dynamic application adaptation in software-as-a-service platform, in one aspect, may receive an access permission associated with a published shared data management data object in the software-as-a-service platform having shared data management and a plurality of applications deployed, look up one or more rules associated with one or more features of an application deployed on the software-as-a-service platform, based on the received access permission, and activate or deactivate said one or more features associated with said plurality of applications based on said one or more rules.