Nimbostratus
Sorry I went dark there for a few days - but getting back to this now. It sounds to me like this is a good opportunity to use iApps to simplify how you deploy and manage your customer applications. I would recommend looking at the needs of your existing applications and bucket sorting them into categories where you intend to create a template for each one. You would then complete the template once per customer application, creating a service instance for each of them letting you manage them that way from then on.
The alternative to that would be to make one template for each type of service, but rather than using it to deploy a service per customer, you could have one iApp service with a table, each customer represented by a row in the table. You could do it that way, but I probably wouldn't.
Cheers,
-Brent
