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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 […]

Moving to Ellucian Banner SaaS does not erase academic logic. It just refuses to run it the old way. That was exactly the situation here. The institution already had working logic that updated module outcome related values based on student grading data. Academic teams trusted it. The rules were established. The process was already doing […]

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 […]

A move to the cloud often makes you look closely at automations that have been doing their job quietly in the background for years. That was exactly the situation for a US-based college after moving from Banner On-premises to Ellucian Banner SaaS. Their student system already included a custom, fully automated process that maintained a […]

Not every student needs the full enrolment marathon, yet too often everyone is given the same running shoes anyway. The problem shows up almost immediately when students from partner institutions begin enrolment at the university. They open Ellucian Experience, start an enrolment flow, and quickly run into screens that are technically correct but practically irrelevant. Extra steps. […]

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. […]

ABCloudz has achieved Advantage Tier status in the Ellucian Service Track. This milestone is formally confirmed by Ellucian through a Certificate of Tiering Confirmation and reflects the maturity and consistency of our service capabilities within the Ellucian ecosystem. Tier status goes beyond individual badges. While badges validate expertise in specific areas, the Service Track tier […]

If your Banner automation depended on direct database access, a move to SaaS has a habit of exposing that dependency overnight. For UK institutions running Ellucian Banner, statutory reporting is not a background task. It is a legal requirement. Each year, institutions must submit structured student data to HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. This […]

The move to SaaS does not erase your business logic, but it does erase how you used to run it.  That was the situation faced by a U.S.-based college after moving from Banner On-premises to Ellucian Banner SaaS (Ellucian Student). One of its long-running integrations, responsible for keeping specific student status data accurate and up to date, could no […]

Third party sponsorship is not one step. It is a chain of decisions that has to land cleanly in the tuition record. For many UK and European institutions, a student being funded by an external organization is not an edge case. It is a normal part of how tuition gets paid. But operationally, it sits […]

“Annual review” sounds simple. Until you try to run it for postgraduate research students. For PGR students, progress is not measured in modules, grades, or tidy end-of-term results. It lives in milestone meetings, supervisor judgement, and decisions that make perfect sense to people but are surprisingly hard to express cleanly in a system. In many […]

Mistakes such as typos are part of human nature. As Theodore Roosevelt wrote, the only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. However, when you see a mistake in your personal student’s record, the first thing you want to do is to correct it immediately. The student’s self-service system […]

Not every student passes every exam on the first try. When a student needs a second attempt in the UK, the retake is commonly referred to as a resit. These resit and course-repeat cases trigger exceptions, special checks, and additional communication that typically sit outside day-to-day student processing.   These workflows are not supported out of the box in Banner SaaS, […]

Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, and Jessica Alba left college before completing their degrees. Universities handle thousands of less famous exits, including transfers to another institution. The workflow matters because withdrawal stops financial liabilities immediately and may trigger credits or partial refunds based on timing and policy.  To address this demanding task, ABCloudz created an automated withdrawal workflow for a […]

If you have ever watched students fill out onboarding forms, you know exactly when their expression changes. Emergency contact? Easy. Trusted contact? Suddenly they pause. That pause is meaningful. It reflects the difference between who should be called in a crisis and who a student trusts to help them navigate sensitive wellbeing concerns. Institutions across […]