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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 […]

Alumni are the greatest asset of any educational institution. Every institution wants to stay in touch with its alumni, turning campus residents into a community of professionals. To achieve this goal, institutions use fundraising and alumni management systems. In turn, these systems work effectively and efficiently when institutions use relevant alumni information. This blog post […]

Moving to the cloud sounds simple until the old systems stop talking to each other. Across Europe, many institutions are shifting from Ellucian Banner On-Prem to its SaaS version. And soon after the migration, the same question always arises, how to keep those quiet background integrations running? One of the most common cases involves placement […]

When universities move from Ellucian Banner On-Prem to SaaS, they lose direct access to the Oracle database that once gave them full control. In the on-prem world, teams could write PL/SQL scripts, adjust logic, and even build custom applications right on top of Banner data. In SaaS, that control changes. The database is no longer […]

For many institutions, moving to Ellucian Banner SaaS feels like a fresh start. Systems become faster, data becomes safer, and upgrades stop being a headache. The only puzzle left is how to reconnect those essential integrations that once lived in the on-prem world. That’s exactly what happened at a large higher education institution in the […]

A Banner SaaS migration feels complete only when the timetabling system is back in perfect sync. Across Europe, and especially in the United Kingdom, many institutions are discovering this truth as they move from Ellucian Banner On-Prem to its SaaS version. The transition promises scalability, security, and smoother updates, yet it also reshapes how Banner […]

When a college migrates from Ellucian Banner On-Prem to Banner SaaS, one of the first questions that comes up is how to keep third-party integrations running. Many institutions rely on companion systems for critical functions such as accessibility management, finance, or student services, and these integrations often need to be rebuilt to work within the SaaS […]

Many colleges leveraging Ellucian Banner SaaS manage financial aid verification through a combination of institutional processes and integrations with external platforms. Our client is a large public community college in the United States. Their staff relied on manual uploads, custom scripts, and fragmented workflows to connect Banner SaaS with ProVerify, a financial aid verification solution […]

Many colleges using Ellucian Banner SaaS still rely on manual processes to communicate critical notifications to students. For a large public community college in the United States, manual uploads and semi-automated processes posed risks, including delays and human errors in crucial student notifications.  In this blog post, we’ll share how the ABCloudz technical team implemented […]