Cloudforce revolutionizes campus AI with nebulaONE at UCLA Anderson
Cloudforce launched nebulaONE, a multi-modal generative AI platform built on Microsoft Azure designed to transform higher education. The platform empowers institutions to deploy advanced AI capabilities, supporting students, faculty, and staff while enforcing robust data privacy and compliance with regulations like FERPA, GDPR, and HIPAA. UCLA Anderson School of Management adopted nebulaONE, enabling rapid AI chatbot development for student support and accelerating the school’s AI-powered services. The platform aggregates multiple leading AI models, allowing for flexible use and secure custom solutions across campuses, and is being deployed at other prominent educational institutions. The approach offers scalable, budget-friendly, and secure access to generative AI for academia.
- Organization
- UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- United States
- Published
- April 2025
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- UCLA Anderson School of Management, London Business School, Cal State Fullerton, University of Maryland
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Production
- Linked source
- ecampusnews.com
The platform aggregates multiple leading AI models, allowing for flexible use and secure custom solutions across campuses, and is being deployed at other prominent educational institutions
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Use case focus
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- 1AI-Powered Campus Services Platform
- 2Student Support Chatbot using Generative AI
- 3Secure Multi-Model AI Integration for Universities
- Universities required secure, compliant, and flexible AI solutions.
- Need to accelerate adoption of generative AI in research, teaching, and operations.
- Concerns about privacy, data protection, and regulatory compliance (FERPA, GDPR, HIPAA).
- Desire for rapid AI deployment without prohibitive cost or complex licensing.
- Cloudforce built nebulaONE, an aggregated AI platform using Microsoft Azure, supporting dozens of leading generative AI models.
- Implemented strict budget controls and usage limits for scalability and affordability.
- Deployed AI chatbots for student and academic support at UCLA Anderson.
- Provided private cloud deployment behind each institution’s firewall for compliance.
- Offered training and support to enable rapid onboarding and expansion of AI-powered services.
- Accelerated the adoption of AI across UCLA Anderson and other institutions.
- Deployed first AI chatbot in less than two months at UCLA Anderson.
- Enabled secure, compliant, and scalable AI innovation in higher education.
- Established UCLA Anderson as a leader in academic AI adoption.
- Expanded to multiple top-tier universities, supporting rapid institutional transformation.
Architecture
nebulaONE aggregates AI models from leading vendors (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, etc.) on a platform hosted on Microsoft Azure, implemented behind institutional firewalls to ensure privacy and compliance while interfacing with campus data and services.
Sources & evidence1
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Independent source available
- Technical implementation details available
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