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For institutions leaving on-prem Colleague behind and moving into Ellucian SaaS, the experience often feels like landing a plane on a different runway. Same destination, very different approach. Third-party integrations are usually where that difference becomes most visible. This story centers on the Colleague SaaS integration with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT. Raiser’s Edge is where […]

For institutions moving from Colleague to Ellucian SaaS, the transition can feel like switching from manual transmission to automatic. You still drive to the same places, but the mechanics under your feet are completely different. For this institution, that difference showed up in an existing Colleague integration with BMTX BankMobile that had been running successfully […]

When a higher ed institution steps into Ellucian SaaS, the “what” usually stays familiar. The “how” gets rewritten overnight. And integrations are where that reality shows up first. This project is about the Ellucian Colleague SaaS (Ellucian Student) integration with Barnes and Noble Adoption, the platform that needs clean course structure, section context, user identity, […]

Moving Ellucian Colleague to SaaS does not change what institutions expect their systems to do. It changes how familiar processes have to be expressed once the platform itself moves to the cloud. Integrations are often where this shift becomes impossible to ignore. This project focuses on the integration between Ellucian Colleague (Ellucian Student) and TeamDynamix […]

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 […]

If an integration was designed for direct database access, a move to SaaS will ask a fair question: what is the plan now? That question comes up for many institutions as they move Ellucian Colleague to SaaS. The platform itself delivers exactly what it promises: stability, security, and a modern operational model. But integrations that […]

Moving Ellucian Colleague to SaaS does not change what institutions need from their systems. It changes how those needs are implemented. And integrations are one of the areas that inevitably need to be rethought when making that transition. This project focuses on the AdvisorTrac integration for Colleague in an Ellucian SaaS environment. AdvisorTrac, a solution […]

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 for students studying at partner institutions. They open Ellucian Experience, start an enrolment flow, and quickly run into screens that are technically correct but practically irrelevant. Extra steps. Extra questions. […]

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. […]

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 […]

“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 […]

Career services should not be the first team to discover your integration stopped updating. Handshake has zero patience for “we just migrated.” For institutions running Colleague on the Ellucian SaaS platform, the core expectation stays the same: student demographic and academic data needs to arrive in Handshake reliably, on schedule, and in a format Handshake […]