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A higher-education institution needed to move a custom Banner-to-Fidelity retirement contribution process into a SaaS-compatible operating model without losing the retirement contribution logic and downstream file requirements the process supported. The existing solution prepared employee and employer contribution data for Fidelity to use in retirement plan administration, but that behavior was embedded in institution-specific Oracle […]

As a higher-education institution prepared to move its on-premises Banner environment to Ellucian SaaS, it needed to modernize a custom retirement benefits process that depended on direct Banner operations and a weekly feedback file from Fidelity Plan Sponsor WebStation® (PSW®), its retirement-plan provider portal. The process updated regular and Roth deferrals under a 403(b) retirement […]

The institution’s planned move from an on-premises Ellucian Banner environment to Ellucian SaaS created a clear modernization requirement for its custom Perceptive Content integration supporting Financial Aid document processing. Perceptive Content, Hyland’s content and workflow platform, handled document ingestion, review and workflow processing, while custom iScripts, JavaScript-based automations within Perceptive Content, performed Banner lookups and […]

As a higher-education institution prepared to move Banner to Ellucian SaaS, it had to determine how to preserve a custom eligibility process that depended heavily on the on-premises Banner database. The process identified which students qualified for a term-based benefit and recorded that eligibility as a student attribute, a Banner record value used here as […]

A higher-education institution relied on a custom Banner process to import student immunization compliance data from Point and Click Solutions and manage registration holds. As Banner moved to SaaS, that workflow could no longer depend on its existing Banner Job Submission (JobSub) process, PL/SQL, Oracle’s procedural extension to SQL, direct database access and the Banner […]

A higher-education institution relied on a custom billing process in Ellucian Banner, its higher-education enterprise and student information platform, to calculate student balances, generate statements and distribute them through TouchNet for electronic billing and DATAMATX for paper billing. The customization existed because the delivered Banner integration with TouchNet did not provide the required prior and […]

A higher-education institution relied on a custom third-party sponsor billing process in Ellucian Banner to calculate charges covered by external sponsors and prepare billing output for its TouchNet third-party billing workflow. Moving this capability to Ellucian SaaS required rebuilding the Banner-side billing engine around Ellucian Data Connect, Ellucian’s integration platform for creating and managing data […]

ABCloudz modernized an existing McGraw-Hill ALEKS score import for an institution moving from on-premises Ellucian Banner to Ellucian Student powered by Banner. McGraw-Hill ALEKS is an online learning and assessment platform that helps educators understand each student’s knowledge and learning progress. The institution already used ALEKS scores in its Banner student records, but the existing […]

During Ellucian Live 2026, our team had the chance to run a live survey. Not a form. Not a poll. A real one. We spoke with more than 1,000 people from institutions, partner organizations, vendors, and teams working across the higher education technology ecosystem. The same concerns kept coming up again and again. The strongest […]

For many students, financial aid is not a convenience. It is the reason college is possible at all. When aid data is delayed, incomplete, or hard to trust, it can become a make-or-break issue, affecting whether students can stay enrolled, plan payments, or move through the semester with confidence. In this project, our customer needed […]

Integration delivery often becomes more difficult than it should be before implementation even begins. The technical work may be ahead, but the first real obstacle usually appears earlier, when a team tries to establish a dependable understanding of the integration itself. Sometimes that understanding is scattered across prior projects, architecture notes, repositories, and vendor materials. Sometimes […]

Universities cannot afford delays or manual work when student health insurance data has to move between systems. In this project, the ABCloudz team automated the full bidirectional integration between Ellucian Banner SaaS and Arthur J. Gallagher, the university’s insurance partner, while replacing Dell Boomi jobs with native Ellucian Data Connect pipelines.  For the customer, this project was not only part of the move from […]

The moment an institution moves Banner to SaaS, every integration that quietly depended on database access gets a reality check. Nothing is “broken” in Ellucian SaaS. The rules are simply different, and old assumptions no longer apply. That was the situation for a large US community college that had long been running Ellucian Banner on-premises […]

The data fabric is the new nervous system of any business. This quote from the CEO of Google Cloud highlights the need to keep data in sync between different systems in your organization. You can’t underestimate the significance of timely student data synchronization, especially when it comes to student data in a major US university. […]

Do you remember the painful process of buying books for your next term? We’ve all been there — noting the title, edition, ISBN, and even cover color. Endlessly searching in the campus bookstores, comparing online prices and delivery dates, and desperately trying to agree on the deal with upperclassmen. Sometimes these tremendous efforts led us […]