'''Configurable Network Computing''' or '''CNC''' is a [[Oracle Corporation]] [[JDEdwards|JD Edwards®]](JDE) [[client-server]] architecture and methodology that was designed to implement scalable enterprise-wide business solutions software that can run on a variety of database and operations systems (OS) platforms. Specifically, the CNC architecture is now sponsored by the [[Oracle_Corporation|Oracle]] Software-owned [[JDEdwards]] [[Enterprise Resource Planning]] or [[ERP]] system. It also refers to the systems analysts who install, maintain, manage and enhance this architecture.
==The CNC architecture==
In this specialized architecture, a company's JDEdwards [[business software]](JDE)applications run in such as way as to be transparently insulated from both the [[database]] where the business data is stored as well as from the client [[computer]]'s underlying [[operating system]]. In layman's terms, the business programs don't "care" where the data is or which operating system is being used on any of the [[end user]] computers. Neither do the applications servers on which business programs run need to directly "know" what database systems are being called on the data end or back end. The CNC architecture keeps track of this through various database tables that point the business applications to the servers that run or execute the business applications and also include database connection tools called database drivers that tell the system also where the database servers are and what specific databases to do lookups, data inserts and data extracts from. Because of the key nature of the underlying architecture, a sound CNC infrastructure is critical to the success of a JD Edwards OneWorld® installation or implementation.
==CNC systems analysts==
Systems analysts that work in this field are alsoknown calledas JDE and/or Peoplesoft CNCs. Based on the size of the company implementing a JDE system, there may be one or more CNCs. In some small companies, there is no resident CNC, but some of the day-to-day CNC functions such as security and business program object builds and deployment is done by a JDE developer on staff while a third-party CNC is called in for non-routine, critical and/or high-risk CNC work such as system ugrades and expansion.
