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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 […]

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, […]

ABCloudz has earned the Ellucian SaaS Delivery Foundation Partner Badge, confirming our readiness to work within Ellucian’s SaaS delivery model. This milestone marks our formal entry into the SaaS Delivery service track of the Ellucian Partner Network. To achieve this badge, our team completed the Partner Banner and Colleague SaaS Delivery Readiness learning plan. The […]

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 […]

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 […]