Improvements to Members consuming IT Solutions
ORG = Institution, Company, Church, i.e. specifically NCBC LEADERS = Leadership Roles within Institutions, i.e. Elders, Council Members, Executives, Deacons, etc. MEMBERS = Invested Individual stakeholders in the Institution, i.e. members, participants, employees, congregants, etc...
Assumption:
- [ ORG ] leverage IT Solutions to better interface with the world systems
- [ MEMBERS ] leverage IT Solutions to better serve self and corporate body [ NCBC ]
- [ LEADERS ] can not oversee well, that which they are ignorant, i.e. the knowledge domain of IT Solutions
- In the age of information, i.e. circa post 1968.12.09 (on Gregorian Calendar), can not accomplish anything significant without the use of Information Technology.
- Note: Digital Age, i.e. circa post 1947.12.23 (on Gregorian Calendar) with the introduction of point contact transistor, is the upstream precursor to the Information Age,
Purpose:
This proposed effort ...
- Targets the Audience of [ LEADERS ]
- Objective is to provide greater insights and transparency on the consumed IT Solutions and delivering services leveraging IT Solutions.
- Desired Outcomes are
- To fill gaps in material knowledge in the subject of IT Solutions and Delivery
- To assist in the connected upstream objective to better oversee the complexities of enterprise IT Solutions, used to serve and improve the lives of [ Members ].
- Desired Outcomes are
Solution Approach:
To improve [ Members ] consuming many IT Solutions, there exists the need to orchestrate the management of ...
- [ Members ] digital identities & personas,
- [ Members ] membership in roles & groups, and to
- identify, capture & persist essential data & information to relay to downstream oversight providers and continuous improvers
High Level Concept for Orchestrating Many IT System Solutions
High level solution concept is the creation of an [ IT Solution ] to orchestrate [ IT Solutions ] consuming and providing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS via available Application Programming Interfaces.
Concept: Customizing for NCBC
There is no existing [ IT Solution ] out of the box that can everything required. To provide the greatest value, all IT Solution(s) require customizing the solution, specific to the institutional constraints.
Subset of Consumed IT Solutions by [ NCBC ] for Orchestration
These are how the digital representation called NCBC, interfaces with world's system.
IaaS Consumption Capture
- DNS
- namecheap
- CERTS
- Let's Encrypt
- Hosting
- Zap-hosting
- Edge Home Hosting
- Edge Hosting
- Dell
- HP
- Routers
- Switches
- Operating Systems
- nixos
- proxmox
- truenas
- opnsense
- android
- grapheneOS
- [windows]
- embeded dd-wrt
- Reverse Proxy
- caddy
- traefik
- Load Balancer (simple)
- caddy
- Overlay
- wireguard
- newt
- pangolin
- Identity Provider
- authentik
- pangolin
- nextcloud
- local
- Laptops (nixos)
- elder [ #3 ]
- slides team [
- admin [ Church Admin ]
- architect-engineer [
- developer
- Multiple Monitors
- HDMI Splitters
- displaylink
PaaS Consumption Capture
- Email
- gmail
- forwardemail
- brevo (SMTP)
- Cloud Storage
- gdrive
- onedrive
- nextcloud
- Database
- keyvalue-document: couchdb
- relational: postgresdb
- Source Code Repository
- gitea
- Web Image Repo
- filebrowser
- Wiki Repo
- gitea
- Members Platform
- nextcloud
- onlyoffice server
- Web IDE
- Code Server
- Configuration Repo
- filebrowser
- gitea
SaaS Consumption Capture
- Web Applications
- Planning Center
- Chase Bank
- Chase Bank Credit Card
- Zoom
- Spotify
- Square Space
- Quickbook online
- NCBC Apps
- Bulletin
- Start
- Testify
- Members Directory
Above is a sample capture of the IT Solutions being consumed by [ NCBC ] [ Members ].
Generally, each IT Solution has their own approaches to managing identities, roles and permissions. This creates multiple siloed solution methods and approaches to common issues across platform management.
Here are 4 examples of IT Solutions used by [ NCBC ] to interface with the worlds enterprise systems.
- Namecheap: Namecheap is the DNS provider for NCBC, i.e. newcovbap.church. a. Note: DNS registration is the defacto digital identifier representing the logical, real world entity called [ NCBC ], i.e. our church, in the digital realm called the internet. Configurations contained here are globally replicated, so that anyone on the internet, anywhere in the world, has a way to find the published information concerning [ NCBC ]. b. Namecheap has their own username and password management c. Current administrator username is linked to a specific member. [mattk***]
- Google: Google approach to digital identities management observed, is that for every physical person, their gmail account, is an identifiable persona in the digital realm of the internet. Other google related services, are linked to the persons Gmail username.
- Planning Center: Planning Center approach to digital identities management, is the creation of username and password, with limited group role management. Due to cost, not all [ Members ] to have access to capabilities available.
- Chase Bank: Chase Bank also has their own username and password, with accounts linked to their credit card management solution, cd management etc. Named elder has the user account with delegated permissions to other members. Concerns arise in the continuity and transitions between volunteer members, filling those roles interfacing with the IT Solution. The loss of identities, permissions, access.
Hence, this proposed effort is to provide greater insights and transparency to Elders to better oversee the complexities of enterprise IT Solutions.
Constraints: Some solutions provide API’s to automate the operations but some don’t
To improve our [ Members ] consuming many IT Solutions, there exists the need to orchestrate the management of ...
- [ Members ] digital identities & personas
- [ Members ] membership in roles & groups
- persist essential data & information
- identify & capture [ persistent data ]
- to relay to downstream oversight providers and continuous improvers
High Level Concept for Consuming Many IT System Solutions
Simplified Tech Concept Breakdown of Concepts for Consuming Many IT System Solutions