CNM Cloud

CNM Digital

The CNM Cloud (hereinafter, the Cloud) is the information technology that supports CNM Digital. The Cloud is brought to the general public by Friends Of CNM.

Purposes

Support for workforce

The Cloud is designed to support people who:

1. Haven't identified their vocations and/or profession yet. For these people, the Cloud can be helpful as a tool for organizing review seminars, practices and studies for them;
2. Have identified their vocation and profession, but lack of employable credentials. For these people, the Cloud can be helpful as a tool for training, on-the-job training or certification of skills;
3. Have identified their vocation and profession, as well as possessed all employable credentials, and are looking for a specific job. For these people, the Cloud can be helpful as a tool for job search skills building, market information, contacts, and marketing channels.

Secondary objectives

In addition, the Cloud can be useful:

• Those graduates who decide to organize or promote their own enterprises,
• Those enterprises that source, selects, hires, onboards, and/or develops their workforce using the Cloud.

Services (CNM Digital)

The Cloud currently consists of the following software and hosts the following services collectively known as CNM Digital:

CNM Cloud (as of March of 2019)

#	Software	Core	Purpose	Service	Status
1	Platform (infrastructure and middleware)	Cloud computing software (outsourced at the moment), Yii	Hosting of CNM Digital and enabling identity and access management	Users	In use
2	Wikiware	Wiki engine	Using a collaborative knowledge system to enable open-to-the-public development	Wikis
3	Siteware	CMS (multiple)	Using multiple content management systems to present Friends Of CNM in WWW through websites	Sites
4	Certware	LMS, exam engine	Using both learning management system and question bank system to enable personal certifications	Certs
5	Labware	Development hub engine	Combining a project management system, version control system, and file storage to enable private development	Labs
6	Mailware	Email engine	Enabling emails	Mails
7	Videoshareware	Video sharing software	Sharing videos	Videos	Under development
8	Groupware	Social network software	social network	Groups
9	Talkware	Webconferencing software	Webconferencing system	Talks	Projected
10	Ventureware	Enterprise management software	Enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management	Ventures

Software

Platform

Main wikipage: CNM Platform

CNM Platform enables operations of CNM apps and is a combination of:

1. CNM Infrastructure, which is the cloud infrastructure or, in other words, ecosystem of servers and cloud OS to support both Opplet and CNM apps of the Cloud; and
2. Opplet, which is enterprise-wide utility software that supports CNM apps, which are end-user applications of the Cloud, regardless of location of those applications for end users in the Cloud.

CNM software		Description	Service	Base(s)
Platform	Infrastructure	Laboratory cloud to support development for Production Cloud	Dev Cloud	OpenStack
		Primary cloud to run business operations	Production Cloud
		Additional cloud to backup Production Cloud	Control Cloud
		(if decided) Server to support webconferencing	Talk Server	(possibly) BigBlueButton and/or Jitsi
		(if decided) Server to store source codes, backups, images, and files	Storage Server	Undecided
	Opplet	User management software that manages authorization of users and their access to CNM apps	Opplet.net	Written specifically for the Cloud using the Yii framework
		Event management software that discovers and analyzes event information, as well as designs and implements reports and calendar updates	Eventtune
		Calendaring software that manages calendars of events	Calendar

End-user software

Main wikipage: CNM app

CNM software		Description	Service	Base(s)
Apps	Labware	Studio for Careerprise vendors to document their developments and store developed files	Fixett	Redmine, Apache Subversion (SVN), containers
	Certware	Learning management software to accommodate learning processes	Certs	Moodle
	Ventureware	A combination of enterprise resource planning software, customer relationship management software, and help-desk software to enable enterprise operations, empower customer relationship management and business intelligence	Ventures	Odoo
	Videoshareware	Video-sharing software to provide its users with access to videos of Friends Of CNM	Videos	(possibly) Clipbucket
	Wikiware	Knowledge management software to develop corporate knowledge collaboratively and access the results	Wikis	MediaWiki
	Mailware	Email software to manage emails	Mails	(possibly) Roundcube
	Talkware	Webconferencing software to organize digital meetings	Talks	(possibly), Jitsi and/or BigBlueButton
	Siteware	Content management software to empower CNM Sites	Sites	WordPress

Finally, the user interface of Opplet is also CNM app since it allows end-users to interact with Opplet.

Perspective services

ERP system

Main wikipage: CNM Ventures

The next step is development of solution requirements at CNM Portal.

Video sharing

Main wikipage: CNM Videos

The next step is development of solution requirements at CNM Video.

Email system

Main wikipage: CNM Mails

The next step is development of solution requirements at CNM Mail.

Web conferencing

Main wikipage: CNM Talks

The next step is development of solution requirements at CNM Talk.

Development

Progress

Main wikipage: CNM Cloud Project

CNM Cloud

The Cloud development occurs under the CNM Cloud Project. Although this development is independent, the cloud itself is conceived as an addition to other commercial enterprises and public initiatives for which this Cloud can be useful.

Requirements

Main wikipage: CNM Cloud requirements

Related lectures

• Introduction to CNM Cloud.