A Global project allows base product users in different places, known as Locations, to access the same project. Each location has its own local copy of the product, and local copies of project databases. Databases can only be written to at a single location, but the data is then made available for users at other locations to read. For users at a location to have write access to a database, the database must be made Primary at the location. (normal base product access controls also apply.) The read-only copies of the database are called Secondary databases.

Part of the product is a program called the Global Daemon, which monitors the changes to all the databases at given intervals, and automatically updates all the databases with the latest changes.