I'm about to start on a new project but I'm doubting if I should use Multisite for the company's structure or not.
The situation is as follows;
Corporation is based in a few EU countries, which each of the country websites have a consumer website and a professional website.
My thought was; Use multisite to make the consumer/professional switch and use WPML for each website. Things went fine so far. Yet; all websites have one shared product database. I'd like to make a custom post type "Products" and have them available in every language on every website (Consumer/Pro). Yet I cant find a way to have it (easily managable) share that product database and its relations.
So there's my doubt on using MultiSite, and as of yet, I dont see any other option to get what I want; Consumer/Professional sites, all with their own content, but with a shared product database.
You can use the switch_to_blog() function within your product archive (http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/switch_to_blog). This would allow you to get the products from another site within the multisite. Then use restore_current_blog() to return back to your individual site.